Is the whole world looking at porn? Biggest site gets over FOUR BILLION hits a month

• Lan wrote on 2012-04-09 19:52

  The internet is for porn,’ is the title of a song on hit musical Avenue Q.
  And it turns out the lyricists had touched on a home truth, because researchers have discovered that a staggering 30 per cent of all internet traffic is pornography.
  The biggest porn site on the web - Xvideos - receives 4.4billion page views and 350million unique visits per month, according to a report on the ExtremeTech website.
  
  The only sites that surpass this in size are the likes of Google and Facebook.
  The report uncovered the viewing figures for Xvideos from Google’s DoubleClick Ad Planner, which uses cookies to gather information about users.
  It then used these figures - and actual data from the third biggest porn site, YouPorn - to extrapolate how much data is being transferred out of the site’s servers.
  And it’s a huge amount.
  It based the first calculation on the average length of time spent on Xvideos, which is 15minutes, and assumed a low resolution video was being streamed.
  
  From this it estimated that around 29 petabytes of pornography is being transferred a month, or 50 gigabytes per second.
  However, it upped this estimate to 35 to 40PB per month after learning that YouPorn hosts over 100TB of porn, gets 100million page views and transfers 950 terabytes per day.
  
  That’s the equivalent of 10 dual-layer DVDs per second.
  At peak times, it speculates that Xvideos is streaming 1,000 gigabytes per second (or one terabyte), which, the report points out, is one fifteenth of the total amount of connectivity between London and New York.
  The ExtremeTech investigation surmised that YouPorn accounts for two per cent of internet traffic, with 30 per cent of all web traffic being pornography related.
  Earlier this year thousands of YouPorn users had their personal passwords and emails leaked online by hackers.
  In total, 6433 users of the YouPorn chat site were exposed after a third-party service provider failed to secure data, its owner claimed.
  Email address and password combinations were put on the website Pastebin, although some appeared to be bogus or inactive.
  A spokesman said at the time that the site was run by an outside company on separate servers and that there was no breach at YouPorn itself.

  
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2127201/Porn-site-Xvideos-worlds-biggest-4bn-hits-month-30-web-traffic-porn.html :skip: And that man wants to ban porn? Tough luck.
• Mentosftw wrote on 2012-04-09 20:21
  Why am I not surprised.
• Paul wrote on 2012-04-09 20:23
  Thanks for the links, will check them out later.
• Rin wrote on 2012-04-09 20:31

  ... and assumed a low resolution video was being streamed.

  
  
  Obviously another sign that we need better internet.
• ValkyrieHamster wrote on 2012-04-09 20:41
  Totally not surprised...
• RicochetOrange wrote on 2012-04-09 21:08
  I'm surprised its as low as it is.
• Sayoko wrote on 2012-04-09 21:25
  Rick Santorum will put an end to 30% of the internet
• Yoorah wrote on 2012-04-09 21:36
  Down with internet porn! So much wasted bandwidth. D:
• Lan wrote on 2012-04-09 21:42

  Quote from Sayoko;834992:

  Rick Santorum will put an end to 30% of the internet

  
  
  He will be assassinated long before he gets the chance.
• Cynic wrote on 2012-04-10 01:18
  I actually figured it would be higher. But I suppose we have to account for those who don't have access to the Internet as-well.
• Osayidan wrote on 2012-04-11 01:22
  People should be grateful. It's thanks to pornography that we've had so many technological advancements.
• Drizzit wrote on 2012-04-11 04:44

  Quote from Cynic;835135:

  I actually figured it would be higher. But I suppose we have to account for those who don't have access to the Internet as-well.

  
  
  No the people with no internet access don't count towards internet usage percentage. However, we do have to take into account the people who fap exclusively to hentai.
• Cynic wrote on 2012-04-11 04:52

  Quote from Drizzit;835935:

  No the people with no internet access don't count towards internet usage percentage. However, we do have to take into account the people who fap exclusively to hentai.

  
  
  I never said they were? I said we have to take them into account as to why the percentage isn't that high since I figure if everyone had access to the Internet the numbers would be a lot higher.
• Sinned wrote on 2012-04-11 06:42
  I bet if we cut down on all the repeats, we could take off at least 1 whole percent of the porn viewing.
  
  BECAUSE THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY REPOSTS THAT I HAVE TO--- erm.. nevermind
• BizarreJuju wrote on 2012-04-11 17:34
  If porn gets taken away, imagine all the cranky guys/girl that need them... time to bootleg porn~