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Short answer: no Lets take a look at the clickstreams for some non-porn websites: - http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/google.com#clickstream http://www.alexa.com/

by nbpoole 16y ago

Short answer: no Lets take a look at the clickstreams for some non-porn websites: - http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/google.com#clickstream http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/google.com#clickstream - http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/aol.com#clickstream http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/aol.com#clickstream - http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org#clickstream http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org#clickstream - http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/news.ycombinator.com#clickstream http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/news.ycombinator.com#clickstre... Facebook is near the top of all of those lists. To me, that looks like people are browsing Facebook and then browsing to these other sites: it doesn't imply that all of the traffic is based on direct link referrals. The data is also skewed by the fact that it comes from Alexa (and thus the Alexa Toolbar).

kwamenum86 16y ago
So they are not relying on the http header or document.referrer? Seems a little silly...
- nbpoole 16y ago
  Well, it appears that they're trying to track something more general than that. Whether that more general data is valuable or not is a different question. :-P
Groxx 16y ago
Slightly longer answer: collected only from Alexa Toolbar users, and... >Which sites did users visit immediately preceding youporn.com? Not "where did users come from". Not "referrers". Not "how did they get here". Just "what were they doing right before they came". Facebook is at the top because Facebook accounts for an enormous amount of internet traffic. No other reason. And it doesn't even remotely imply people are finding youporn through links on Facebook. Supporting evidence: downstream stats put FB at 10.47% and Google at 7.53%. "Downstream" being defined as: >Where do visitors go after leaving youporn.com? I highly doubt they're following links on youporn to get to Facebook. Or Google search results. They're just browsing both sites at nearly the same time. edit: left a slightly-modified comment on the blog.
- nbpoole 16y ago
  ...which is still somewhat disturbing :P
  - Groxx 16y ago
    No disagreement there :) Perhaps more disturbing than the upstream: the downstream is noticeably higher in favor of Facebook. So, after people have browsed their porn, they go to Facebook. Looking for...?

by nbpoole 16y ago

kwamenum86 16y ago

So they are not relying on the http header or document.referrer? Seems a little silly...

nbpoole 16y ago
Well, it appears that they're trying to track something more general than that. Whether that more general data is valuable or not is a different question. :-P

Groxx 16y ago

Slightly longer answer: collected only from Alexa Toolbar users, and... >Which sites did users visit immediately preceding youporn.com? Not "where did users come from". Not "referrers". Not "how did they get here". Just "what were they doing right before they came". Facebook is at the top because Facebook accounts for an enormous amount of internet traffic. No other reason. And it doesn't even remotely imply people are finding youporn through links on Facebook. Supporting evidence: downstream stats put FB at 10.47% and Google at 7.53%. "Downstream" being defined as: >Where do visitors go after leaving youporn.com? I highly doubt they're following links on youporn to get to Facebook. Or Google search results. They're just browsing both sites at nearly the same time. edit: left a slightly-modified comment on the blog.

nbpoole 16y ago
...which is still somewhat disturbing :P
- Groxx 16y ago
  No disagreement there :) Perhaps more disturbing than the upstream: the downstream is noticeably higher in favor of Facebook. So, after people have browsed their porn, they go to Facebook. Looking for...?