September means the beginning of sweater weather, the return of Pumpkin Spice Lattes and the launch of a new iPhone. Now that the highly anticipated iPhone 6s line has finally hit stores and is smashing sales records, the Pornhub statisticians have decided to dig through the data and found out what it is that separates iPhone-wielding Pornhub users from our Android-loyal visitors, in terms of how they interact with the site and what kinds of content they prefer. Currently, just over 60% of our traffic comes from mobile devices, so without any further ado, let’s take a look at what makes each of these major subsets of Pornhub’s viewership tick.
I didn’t put the link in the copied blurb itself. The following link is to the company blog, and not the Pornhub site itself, so it’s completely safe for work, and contains no nudity or otherwise inappropriate content, so you can read it for the interesting mobile stats without any worries. It’s still a link to the Pornhub domain, so you might want to skip this one if you’re on a work computer or someone else’s machine.
Here’s the link. And yes I find it totally hilarious the OSNews database now contains a link to the Pornhub domain.
“Average time spent” just killed me. LMAO
It appears that worlds wealthiest countries prefer Apple and all not so well doing choose Android. So yeah, Apple still the icon of higher class and wealth and Android, well the cheaper one for the rest
If wouldn’t label it as a preference.
Obviously, in many countries, Apple gear is way too expensive for most people.
Not only that. Android gets additional points in countries which are neglected by Apple. Eg. here iPhones only recently became available in stores, and while there are Android apps for most local services, iOS counterparts literally don’t exist. FWIW my operator offers a selection of Android apps for its services, but no iOS apps.
Have you checked the map they provide at all?
http://cdn1b.static.pornhub.phncdn.com/insights-static//wp-content/…
Almost the entire European mainland goes for Android, while a country with vast amounts of extreme poverty like the US go with iOS. Your statement makes no sense.
Oh please… The US suffers from a huge problem – income inequality. It is absolutely horrible. However, we do not have any meaningful poverty problem. Our effective poverty rate is nearly zero. We do not have “extreme poverty” – that is laughable.
Even if you go by the statistical poverty numbers (which are, like I said, horribly skewed by income inequality), we still have a lower poverty rate than the EU…
80% of the households below the poverty line in the US have at least 1 cellphone (and a microwave, and a TV, and an AC unit)… What are you going on about???
Edited 2015-10-05 22:28 UTC
So, you are saying that 20% of US poor don’t have things EU/Scandinavia considers human rights for everybody to have. Yes, having a phone, Internet access, TV and a home with a kitchen are all human rights around here (AC not so much, but heating definitely because Scandinavia). If you are too poor to have those things, they will be provided for you. Along with as much free education as your head can take in and free health care.
Meanwhile US poor are dying to treatable health issues, have no realistic access to higher education, are target of police violence, etc. Basically, 100% US poor would be better off as refugees in EU. 🙂
Oh please… What a bunch of horseshit. That is a media created buzz, not a real problem. There are no real stats on the “problem”, so no one can really dispute it – it’s so convenient…
If you believe that, you don’t get out enough…
Or you can look at the country chart and it would be obvious that the richer countries have higher iOS percentages. US, UK, Canada, France, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Belgium on iOS. India, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Poland, Philippines, Argentina, Romania on Android. Notice a pattern there?
The only countries to go against the grain are Germany and the Netherlands as rich countries with higher Android than iOS usage. Every single other country fits the pattern.
As for your comment on the US being full of extreme poverty and hence disproving richer countries with a lot of iOS users… that is so dumb it doesn’t even need a response.
Except that it does. The US has by far the most poverty of any nation considering itself “developed”, and therefore the US is actually the odd-one out when it comes to iOS being the major player only in countries with low poverty.
No. It has the highest relative poverty rate of any developed nation. That is, it has the highest percentage of people making less than 50% of their countries median income. Which is, like I said, a measure of income inequality. That has almost no relationship to the concept of poverty as most people understand it – as in not being able to meet basic needs, access basic services, and live in dignity. No, we are no where near perfect, and we have problems for sure, but we have the nearly the same absolute poverty numbers as most developed nations, i.e. about zero.
But I don’t want to start an argument over terminology, your not technically wrong and that wasn’t really my point.
My point is that a “high poverty rate” doesn’t in any way, shape, or form, equate to a poor population… When you define “high” as something like 17%, and you use it as your measuring stick, you are ignoring 80% of the population. The problem with that is the 80% of the US population you are ignoring is by far the wealthiest in the entire world by almost any measure…
Even if you just measure using an overall average, our disposable income levels are 25% higher than any other country in the world. Think about it, that 25% higher includes the 17% who represent the “vast amount of extreme poverty”. The 80% that are left are rich as all f*ck, relatively speaking…
I’m not saying we don’t have a our problems… What I’m saying is that poverty rate has almost no relationship to whether or not a country has a wealthy population. Mexico, using OECD numbers, has a poverty rate about the same as ours (which itself is laughable, hence why I think this particular metric is useless). Their median income is $4.9k, ours is $30.6k (4th in the world). You do know what a median is right?? (hint – that number completely ignores our top 10%, who are so far beyond what the rest of the world calls “rich” as to be almost comical)
Use a relevant measuring stick if you want to make comparisons, that is all I’m saying… If you want to measure “wealth” meaningfully, then use median income, or at least something that is actually measuring the thing your are comparing… The only European countries with higher median income than the US are Luxembourg, Norway, and Switzerland…
Edited 2015-10-06 17:27 UTC
Yeah look at Greenland there, that beacon of wealth.
Greenland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world (USD 37,000 per capita income.)
The entire work force of Greenland is 40,000 people, and 8,000 of them work for the Danish government (who gives them about 1/3 of their entire economy in subsidies every year).
You are actually completely right though, not disputing anything. But it is kind of an odd arrangement they have there.
Interesting stuff, and very nicely laid out !
…but it looks like the majority of wankers use an iPad.
😉
Edited 2015-10-05 22:36 UTC
So we finally found out the real reason why it has to be “light enough to hold with 1 hand”
The executive summary seems to be: iOS users are whities from the richer US states, Android users are more likely to be ‘ebony americans’ (in porn euphemism) from the poorer south.
It would interest me to know if the Android using european mainland also searched relatively more for ‘ebony’…
Show me your phone and I’ll tell you who you are.
I don’t think my phone has ever visited Pornhub. Can you still tell me who I am?
Yes, one can tell of who you are through your smart phone, as long as you personalized it. By being personalized, you do what you want with your device to entertain you, so that includes a lot of your personal stuff on that device. That is why government intelligent agencies wanted your phone badly as Edward Snowden showed us already.
If you are religious, I expect your phone to have a bible, or something similar apps with religious theme on it. Your facebook posts may have inspirational religious quotes. Your pictures with your friends, your family etc.
Since we are all humans and bound to some sort of weaknesses, we may find some contradictions in your lifestyle. Example, one may visited pornhub, yet we found also that he is a religious individual. This is not a surprise, if you’ve been reading the news, an Evangelical Christian is involved in Ashley Madison. So there, be sure to lock your phone when not in used, or encrypt it if you have something to hide from the public.
Edited 2015-10-06 01:17 UTC
Hey Thom, how about doing something similar for OSNews? I always find this kind of general data fascinating. Browser, OS, Country, etc.
Pornhub did a good with the breakdown but it really got interesting (for me) when it hit the general stats (OS, Avg Time, Country/Region). As such, they left out Browsers, All OSes (I know the focus was on Mobile).
Here’s a stat for you
I’ve never visited this site directly from a Mobile Device. I think I might have visited once or twice via a tethered connection.
Sure, my company iPhone can browse this and other sites I hardly ever do that because in the main, browsing from it just sucks.
Last week in the USA I don’t think I ever got a 4G connection despite being in Charlotte NC, DC, Philly and NYC plus places in between. The 3G was dog slow even for App based use. It was so bad that I only used 55Mb of Mobile Data and that included a 28Mb app upgrade when I was sitting waiting for a tow truck on I-95.
So why would I want to move the majority my browsing to a mobile device? Even using WiFi it was very patchy.
Sucks to be you.
Here’s another anecdotal: OSNews actually has a pretty good, low-data, mobile page. My 4G is amazing – truly remarkable. I have a mid-range 6.1″ phone (plenty of screen space). It’s rooted, firewalled, ARP protected, adaway via hosts, 2-3 battery life, prepaid (low-cost) plan – barely hit half-way thru my data-cap monthly but I’m not viewing videos.
RSS, tons of browsing and an occasionally app (when they are better). It’s been an absolute pleasure when I’m out and about. Of course, still prefer my Laptop when the option is available.
We do these from time to time. We did one last year:
http://www.osnews.com/story/27729/OSNews_platform_and_browser_stati…
Thanks for the link!
Really surprised (and happy) to see the number that identify as Linux (21.21%) – much higher than I thought it would be and surpassing the Mac (very surprised). Not much in the way of alternate OSes – outside of the Big 5. ChromeOS is just a blip on the radar (unless it identifies as something else).
Next time you guys do this, how about some trending info? I know it’s unscientific (users testing LiveCDs, same users accessing site through multiple OSes (Desktop/Mobile)). But fun nonetheless.
That watching and being addicted to porn is destructive to your sexual lifestyle and especially to one’s married life.
As I look at the map, more Europeans and Americans are porn addicts. In Asia, Japan appears to have more users at the site, this is not surprising actually for Japan. (I know, some of my fellow country women are working in Japan as entertainers for decades).
The Japanese have never had the sexual hangups of Westerners. In fact the Japanese have always considered sex to be an enjoyable (relatively) guilt-free activity.
Are you kidding me? Which other first world country censors pornography more severely than the Japanese?
All sexual services (except vaginal coitus) are legal in Japan.
Japan has over 10,000 active pornographic actresses (>100x the rate of other wealthy countries). The vast majority them are office workers, housewives or university students (the films are shot on weekends).
Up to 10% of Japanese high school girls are involved in some form of paid sex work.
It hardly sounds like a sexually repressed society.
You didn’t answer the question. If the place didn’t have severe hang ups about sex they wouldn’t censor all their pornography
IIRC the censorship law was a holdover from the American occupation.
Those two things are different and putting them together destroyed your whole argument.
A lot of couples actually watch porn together and it enhances their sex-life, it doesn’t detract from it — I know a few such personally. Watching porn doesn’t always lead to addiction, either.
Generalizations like that never work, to be quite frank. Each and every one is different and such a complex beast as sexuality is there is absolutely no way you can just toss such a wide net and expect it to fit everyone.
Look at this:
http://cdn1b.static.pornhub.phncdn.com/insights-static//wp-content/…
Android usage in South Carolina is a pretty significant anomaly – it skews almost 10% over the rest of the “Team Android” states…
I wonder if this has anything to do with Google having a large data center there? Wonder how many people it employees.. Its a stretch, but I can’t figure out any other obvious explanation.
Somehow it seems almost karmic that a small group of west coast interlopers with porn fetishes and nothing to do all day would be enough to skew the stats on an entire state.
The bigwigs in Mountain View may want to go see what exactly is going on over there…
Edited 2015-10-06 05:48 UTC