It’s common knowledge at this point that though the internet is quite good at most digital tasks nowadays — managing finances, watching movies and television, reporting news, and playing games — it is best at delivering porn. Even if you, for some reason, don’t morally agree with the existence and consumption of pornography, there’s no denying that for all the things at which the internet excels, it performs most ably as a platform to serve porn. Considering the anonymous and private nature of viewing internet porn, it’s always fascinating to see the statistics regarding exactly what everyone’s up to when they come home from a long day of work to a cozy computer chair. Porn-serving engine Pornhub is here to enlighten us on this matter, with its 2013 year in porn review.
A few months ago, PornMD — another porn-serving engine — published its regional search statistics, revealing interesting data regarding what kind of porn different areas of the world are into. Recently, we also discovered that around 20% of the entire porn business is accounted for by camgirls and boys — and whatever else ends up on cam — alone. Now that 2013 is coming to a close, Pornhub — a site you have probably never loaded in a browser (right?) — is here to tell us how it all went down.
During 2013, Pornhub was visited nearly 15 billion times, which would certainly make for a ton of ad impressions should advertisers change their tune about pornography. That’s about 1.7 million visits per hour. In the month-by-month breakdown, Pornhub reveals that when it’s cold outside, users look to warm themselves up the best way they know how — with January, September, and November being the highest trafficked months across the world. Interestingly, however, Mexico chooses to visit the most during March. The least busiest month worldwide is during August, likely because we aren’t avoiding poor weather and trying to figure out what to do with ourselves cooped up inside.
Along with winter months, Pornhub is most visited at the beginning of the work week, with Monday as the most highly trafficked day for visits. Perhaps people just can’t bear yet another week of work ahead of them, and they look to alleviate that frustration. The least visited days are the weekend; likely Saturday because we’re generally out doing stuff, and likely Sunday because we not only have to get to bed early to catch up on sleep for the following day of work, but because that’s the day TV is usually at its best.
Like PornMD’s keyword data, Pornhub also found that countries of the world tend to search for porn related to its major nationality; for example, many of Japan’s top search results include the word “Japanese,” while England’s top keyword is “British.” What the world can agree on, though, are the keywords “teen” and “milf,” showing that age plays an important role in attraction, but it can be on either end of the spectrum.
Pornhub’s year in review has many more interesting statistics, including how sporting and television events affect the world’s porn-viewing habits, how holidays take people out of the porn mood, and what specific videos the world watches. If you’re into learning about porn instead of watching it — or are completely exhausted from all the porn you just watched — it’s a good read.
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