I would judge singles online dating sites on what protection exists before you meet rather than on the feature list.
My first week on singles online dating sites looked promising; by the second I was only really watching whether the safety tooling is more than a checkbox.
If your area is thin, the service will not fix that, whatever whether the ratio is workable in your area looks like.
Would anyone recommend singles online dating sites to someone starting from scratch?
Different crowd on DatingFly, which came up earlier, which suited me better.