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Curious where PornHub and other sites rank. I always hear how that porn sites are in the top X of all traffics but people don’t talk about due to its nature. I

Curious where PornHub and other sites rank. I always hear how that porn sites are in the top X of all traffics but people don’t talk about due to its nature. I’m always amazed that they have a data science team. It’s not something many would expect from the porn industry. I certainly didn’t expect it. https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2022-year-in-review https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2022-year-in-review

layer8 4y ago
A quick grep shows that there are almost 2.5K domains at 1M rank with “porn” in their name. The data science teams likely provide a considerable ROI in that industry.
- system2 4y ago
  Majority of porn sites do not have porn word in them though. I wish there was a categorization of these.
- Giorgi 4y ago
  does it though? Pretty sure adult results are being filtered off by Google tool named "SafeSearch". It removes anything adult from SERP and it is on by default.
  - yorwba 4y ago
    This appears to have some unintuitive consequences. When I searched for "porn" in a cookie-less session just now, there were still porn results, but no well-known sites (at least I didn't recognize the names). Searching for literally "pornhub", the first result is "porhub.com" without the "n". Seems like the "SafeSearch" filter is based on a list of "adult domains" instead of the indexed content at the URL.
E39M5S62 4y ago
If you ignore the content, large-scale adult sites are just like any other high traffic (bandwidth, RPS) site out there. A lot of planning goes into where their content delivery PoPs should be placed.
mtmail 4y ago
"Pornhub’s statisticians make use of Google Analytics to figure out the most likely age and gender of visitors. This data is anonymized from billions of visits to Pornhub annually, giving us one of the richest and most diverse data sets to analyze traffic from all around the world."
mtmail 4y ago
"New Year’s Eve kicked holiday ass with a massive –40% drop in worldwide traffic from 6pm to Midnight on December 31st." It's Dec/31, 1pm in New York right now.
oars 4y ago
"Pornhub’s statisticians make use of Google Analytics to figure out the most likely age and gender of visitors. This data is anonymized from billions of visits to Pornhub annually, giving us one of the richest and most diverse data sets to analyze traffic from all around the world."
xwowsersx 4y ago
I remember reading about their experience with Redis https://groups.google.com/g/redis-db/c/d4QcWV0p-YM https://groups.google.com/g/redis-db/c/d4QcWV0p-YM there is something funny about reading engineering insights from a porn co, but they do deal with scale that not many others do!

layer8 4y ago

A quick grep shows that there are almost 2.5K domains at 1M rank with “porn” in their name. The data science teams likely provide a considerable ROI in that industry.

system2 4y ago
Majority of porn sites do not have porn word in them though. I wish there was a categorization of these.
Giorgi 4y ago
does it though? Pretty sure adult results are being filtered off by Google tool named "SafeSearch". It removes anything adult from SERP and it is on by default.
- yorwba 4y ago
  This appears to have some unintuitive consequences. When I searched for "porn" in a cookie-less session just now, there were still porn results, but no well-known sites (at least I didn't recognize the names). Searching for literally "pornhub", the first result is "porhub.com" without the "n". Seems like the "SafeSearch" filter is based on a list of "adult domains" instead of the indexed content at the URL.

E39M5S62 4y ago

If you ignore the content, large-scale adult sites are just like any other high traffic (bandwidth, RPS) site out there. A lot of planning goes into where their content delivery PoPs should be placed.

mtmail 4y ago

"Pornhub’s statisticians make use of Google Analytics to figure out the most likely age and gender of visitors. This data is anonymized from billions of visits to Pornhub annually, giving us one of the richest and most diverse data sets to analyze traffic from all around the world."

mtmail 4y ago

"New Year’s Eve kicked holiday ass with a massive –40% drop in worldwide traffic from 6pm to Midnight on December 31st." It's Dec/31, 1pm in New York right now.

oars 4y ago

xwowsersx 4y ago

I remember reading about their experience with Redis https://groups.google.com/g/redis-db/c/d4QcWV0p-YM https://groups.google.com/g/redis-db/c/d4QcWV0p-YM there is something funny about reading engineering insights from a porn co, but they do deal with scale that not many others do!