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Pornhub is one of the pre-eminent porn sites on the web. Each year Pornhub releases a year in review post with anonymous details about the site's users. More and more Linux users are visiting Pornhub, Linux saw an impressive 14% increase in traffic share in 2016.
[...] While Windows continues to dominate when it comes to which operating system users count on to watch Pornhub (about 80% of desktop users), Mac OS and Linux are on the rise, with Mac OS up 8% in traffic share and Linux up an impressive 14%.
Moving onto mobile. The playing field is pretty even here, with Android and Apple iOS almost at par with one another. Android leading with 3% more users on Pornhub than Apple iOS (47% of Pornhub's mobile users). Android's mobile market share has increase by 5% over the last year.
Look, it wasn't all me. I swear.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/article/3158159/linux/linux-use-on-pornhub-surged-14-in-2016.html
(Score: 4, Interesting) by AthanasiusKircher on Saturday January 21 2017, @03:46AM
First, I'm not even sure why I'm commenting on a story about porn, other than I can't stand bad stats usage, and the summary immediately sounded "off" to me, so I read TFA.
I'm not sure how "impressive" this is in context of actual numbers, rather than percentage of change. The actual share of traffic from each OS was 80% Windows, 14% Mac OS, 3% Linux, and 3% "other". The changes were +1% for Windows, +8% for Mac OS, +14% for Linux, and -28% for Other.
Or, to put it another way, it looks like "Other" (whatever that includes... stuff less popular than LInux) lost a bit over 1% of the total 100% in the traffic "pie," and the remaining "big 3" got those.
And if we run the numbers, it looks like Mac OS actually got the largest gain in actual numbers, followed by Windows, and a distant third for Linux. There isn't enough precision given in the reported percentages to know exactly how these compare, but no matter how you look at it, this isn't exactly some "victory" for Linux when the only OSes that are losing people are "Other" and both Windows and Mac beat Linux in their gains.
And that's assuming that the traffic stats for a porn site are actually meaningful for... well, I'm not sure why these numbers are supposed to be of interest to anyone other than people running porn sites??
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @05:20AM
There's also the possibility that the gains made for linux were in fact linux distros that pornhub previously didn't count as linux. That being said, I'm still glad to hear about the increase. We're* getting a lot more ports these days.
*linux users
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Saturday January 21 2017, @05:31AM
Yea, 3% is better than the 1% we have always been in site metrics until you realize that most of it is now ChromeOS and settop boxes. On the other hand most Linux users are smart enough to find porn without going to somewhere as dangerous as pornhub. (Dangerous in pretty much every definition.)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 21 2017, @11:46AM
Pornhub is only dangerous if you're running without script/ad-blocking.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21 2017, @06:54PM
actual share [...] 3% Linux
...including the "14 percent".
As you say: misleading.
"Other"
Dollars to donuts, a significant portion of that is Linux boxen.
Robert Pogson mentions this often in his blog.
I like the first reply to your comment:
It's just sloppy sniffing by the site and/or poor configuration on the users' appliances.
There's also the possibility that some folks are having too much fun with their User Agent Switchers.
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(Score: 2) by Common Joe on Sunday January 22 2017, @03:15AM
Very interesting number analysis you did. It certainly gives a different perspective to the summary. Thank you.
I can tell you a good reason. The porn community is an indicator species [wikipedia.org] for the internet -- not just for bad things, but good things as well. They were the first in many areas -- including delivering malware and then in fixing the malware problem. They are now dabbling in 3D. If you want to know how 3D and holography are going to be accepted by the general populace, watch the porn community closely.