How Much Porn Does the Internet Hold?For as much as we try to ignore and segregate it from our daily surfing, the fact remains that porn is the life-blood of the Internet. But how much sexy sex is actually moving through the series of tubes? The answer is: tons. The world's top porn sites—XVideos, LiveJasmin, YouPorn, Tube8, Pornhub—are on par with Google and Facebook. XVideos alone averages 4.4 billion page views per month, double what Reddit pulls over the same time and triple what CNN can do. And it's not just the amount of traffic that these sites generate, it's the length of individual visits as well. Most sites, Gizmodo included, average three to six minutes per visit. Porn sites average five times that—15-20 minutes per visit. In terms of actual data usage, porn sites are behemoths. Most sites average 50 - 200 TB of material, which individually really isn't all that much. But during peak times, when the site's loading image galleries, downloading content and streaming video, its data usage soars. According to ExtremeTech,
That's one, single site—and not even the largest of its king—driving 800Gbps. And given that there are more porn sites than there are stars in the sky, it's obvious what we're all really here for—and it ain't for the articles. [ExtremeTech] |