In the latest example of something breaking the internet, we have Bowsette, a fantasy hybrid between Nintendo characters Bowser and Princess Peach. Originally based on a fan-drawn comic, within days the internet spawned countless other Bowsette themed fan art. Life imitates art, and eventually porn imitates everything, so it wasn’t long before hentai style porn parodies and tributes featuring Bowsette appeared on Pornhub. VentureBeat asked the Insights team to take a closer look at this phenomenon.
Category: Stats
Romania Insights
In this edition of Pornhub Insights we’re joined by Start-Up.ro to take a look at the porn viewing habits of Romania’s visitors. Romania ranks 29th for traffic to Pornhub, even though it only ranks 59th worldwide for population. The average visitor from Romania spends 9 minutes 57 seconds on Pornhub, which is -19 seconds less than the world average. Like most of the world, Romanians most often visit Pornhub on Sunday and least-often on Friday. Midnight is the highest traffic time of day, which is about an hour later than most countries.
Gonna Make You Sweat
Pornhub Insights has looked into some pretty interesting fetishes before. Sneakers, Feederism, Wedgies, Golden Showers, Cuckolding, Clowns and Spectrophelia just to name a few. As one of the hottest summers on record draws to a close, the folks at Metro UK asked our statisticians to take a look at how the Sweat Fetish gets Pornhub’s visitors all hot and bothered.
Apple Special Event: Traffic by the Minute
Apple’s annual Special Event is streamed live to millions of people worldwide, and this year Pornhub’s statisticians were ready to capture all the excitement through data.
Our Insights for the 2016 and 2017 Apple events relied on hourly traffic from Google Analytics, but this year our statisticians captured actual pageviews as they occurred on our servers so we could break down traffic changes by the minute!
We then compared pageviews during each minute of the event to the exact same time on the three previous Wednesdays to find the percent change from average. Our friends from Cnet helped us out by breaking down the event timeline.
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Slovenia Insights
The country of Slovenia ranks only 148th worldwide for population, but manages to turn in a respectable rank of 73rd for traffic to Pornhub. 24ur.com asked Pornhub’s statisticians to take a closer look at the porn preferences of their country.
Belgium Insights
De Morgen recently asked Pornhub’s statisticians to see how porn consumption in Belgium compares to that of other countries. Belgium ranks 19th for traffic coming to Pornhub, an impressive feat considering it ranks 80th worldwide for population. For pageviews per capita, that puts Belgium into Pornhub’s Top 15 countries. Belgium’s highest traffic day of the week is Monday, while most of the world prefers Sunday. Friday is the lowest traffic day, the same as it is in most countries.