More and more people are staying at home thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, and websites like Pornhub are seeing a huge difference in the number of people using their – um – services.
Pornhub’s stats wizards recently crunched the numbers to give us a full look at the website’s insights for the month of March, and there’s some VERY interesting findings.
Comparing February 2020’s traffic with March’s, Pornhub explains: “It became evident that as people were spending more time at home, either self-isolating or working at home, that traffic to Pornhub had risen. Worldwide traffic to Pornhub was up 11.6% on March 17th.”
Of course, there was also a whopping increase in the number of Italian users accessing Pornhub thanks to its offer of free Premium access to those in the country.
“The drastic increase of 57% on March 12 came after Pornhub offered free Premium service to all of Italy, an offer that was clearly well received by home-bound Italians,” said Pornhub.
Traffic from the United States (Pornhub’s largest market) was up 6.4% on March 17th, and 7.2% in Canada, following on from government recommendations of staying at home.
And of course, when any trending topic hits the news as hard as COVID-19, you’re bound to see a spike in searches in the world of porn.
Pornhub notes that yes, there has been a massive spike in people searching for the term “coronavirus.”
Delving deeper, the company explains: “When compared to the rest of the world, visitors from Slovakia are 119% more likely to search for Coronavirus on Pornhub. Searches are more than 80% more popular in Bulgaria, Ireland, Malaysia and Serbia.
“In the United States, it’s visitors from Washington, D.C. who are the most likely to search for Coronavirus on Pornhub. In fact, D.C. visitors are proportionately 33% more likely to search. Visitors from New York are 24% more likely to search, 22% in Washington state and 18% more in West Virgina. Folks from North Dakota are the least likely to search by -43% when compared to the rest of the country.”
If you’re not a numbers person then PH has even created a handy infograph for you to take a look at.
For the full stats, check out Pornhub’s report right here.
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