Category: Stats

On Friday July 8th, many Canadians woke up to find their home and mobile internet was down. Rogers, one of Canada’s top telecommunication providers, suffered a massive outage that left millions of people without telephone and internet access, and millions more without access to vital services and the ability to pay with direct debit cards.

The outage lasted well into the following day, with several provinces harder hit than others. Pornhub’s statisticians followed Canada’s traffic changes throughout the day, and were able to identify just how much of the country was affected by the outage, at least when it came to their favorite times to watch porn.

Canada-wide traffic began to drop immediately after the outage began, around 5am Eastern time. By 7am hourly traffic was down -19% compared to the same hour on an average day. Traffic remained below average for the rest of the day, including another -19% drop in the early evening.

Continue reading “Canada’s Traffic During Rogers Internet Outage”

Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp were offline for several hours on October 4th, 2021. Starting at about 12pm Eastern Time, Pornhub’s traffic increased by as much as +10.5%, which equals about half a million additional users during each hour that Facebook’s services were down.

Pornhub’s statisticians found similar traffic increases during another Facebook & Instagram Outage in March of 2019.

Pornhub’s statisticians weren’t able to predict who each state voted for, but they were able to share what each state was searching for during election week!

The top relative search is the term that was more often searched in each state when compared to all other states. It’s a snap-shot of what was truly in the hearts and on the minds of everyday Americans while they waited to find out who their next president will be.

Some curiosities included the relative popularity of “succubus” in Oregon, “tushy” in Colorado (how cute!), “tickling” in Georgia, “yoga pants” in Iowa, “wedgie” in Connecticut and “accidental creampie” in Missouri.

Fans of mature porn were searching “granny” in Tennessee but nearby South Carolina preferred “grandma” and Ohio liked “cougar” porn. Hawaiians were searching “808” (the local area code), Louisiana had a craving for “popeyes”, Utah was checking out some wholesome “Mormon” porn while Texas was spicing things up with “sexmex”.

A few of the terms were even election related. There’s no doubt that Florida was big into “Trump”, Delaware was searching for “election” and in D.C. people were more likely to search for “vote” than any other state.

Video games are always a popular search on Pornhub, with New Mexico distracting themselves with “Fortnite” and Kentucky searching for “Among Us”. (See our recent Among Us Insights).

Bigly things, really huuuuuge, massive results were happening in several states like “fat ass” searches in Pennsylvania, “BBW” in West Virginia, “chubby” in Kansas and “big booty” in Alabama.

Oh, and Mississippi, we hope you found what you were looking for when you searched “pron” more than any other state.