What Bullshit from Forbes! LMAO
 

http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/25/0524porn.html

Its rival research outfit, Net Ratings, tracks the number of visitors to porn Web sites. It says that in April 2001, there were 22.9 million unique visitors to porn sites. This says nothing about how long each visitor stayed or whether they spent a dime. In any event, the number of visitors is less than the number who visited news sites (41.1 million), finance sites (34.2 million) or greeting card sites (25.5 million). When was the last time you heard anyone talk about how greeting card sites dominate the Net?

well, that's complete bullshit. i get about 3 M unique visitors/day - or around 90 M uniques/month. i guess i have over three times all uniques to all porn sites. right.

Yeah, freehost's do about 1 Million Uniques per 10 Mbps per day. I got a free host customer that does 400 Mbps. I guess he owns the Internet.

lol

Hmmm very nice... Just found out that we own a pretty large % of all the porn surfers... LENSMAN you can just send me a check for that traffic each month since it is ours... :Graucho

wow, i do 3 M unique ips/day, and I also burn over 300 mbs. much larger files than most though ;)

haha

Yeah those #'s are alot low IMHO. Maybe they do not know about thehun and worldsex hehe.:Graucho

Shane

I think the numbers are way off but what your missing is that even though someone does 1 million uniques a day you just can't add that up over the course of the month to come up with how many unique individuals you had to your site. You would have to drop a cookie on each surfer that would last at least a month to figure out how many individuals actually visited your site/s; then you'd have to figure out how many of those had used different computers or cleared their cookies/temp cache. There's definitly more then 22.9 million people surfing for porn on the internet in any given month though.

ya think? of course - but a unique visitor (how we have things set up) is a unique ip visiting the site in a 24 hour period. after 24 h, if they visit again, it is another unique.

I know that but I don't believe thats how they were counting uniques. I think they were actually trying to determine how many individuals surf for porn in any given month. I personally think their way off though.

Shit, off topic; quiet, whats your email addy again? I totally forgot that I said I get you some numbers for investment counselors; I'll try to get them for you Monday. Sorry about that.

well of course they are way off. let's say my 90 M uniques consititute only 10 % truly unique visitors over an entire month (the % is much higher than that, but let's pretend :)

damn, 9 million visitors - i control almost 40% of the adult internet...

I believe it :Graucho

I did not see that it specified these figures apply to the USA but I suspect that is what the article was speaking about.

The population of the USA is approximately 260-270 million. I may be mistaken, but I think that less than one third of the population own computers so this would be less than 90 million computers, so 22.9 million would represent approximately 25% of those computers going to porn sites. Actually I think the figure is way less than one third of homes that have computers.

I am open for corrections.

I did a search and what I came up with was some stats for the year 2000.

Approximately 100 million homes in the USA.

35% of homes without computers.

This leaves the number of homes with computers at 65 million.

Of the 65 million homes with computers 49% were online.

This means approximately 32 million homes were online in 2000.

The average number of hours online per week (49% of homes) 1-5 hours.


Bottom line:

The number Forbes came up with was 22.9 million for April 2001; so the number appears to be about right to me.

Actually it looks high to me. 22.9 million would mean that about two thirds of the homes are surfing porn and I doubt that it is that high. No one in my circle of friends surfs for porn. I would know because I have known them for a large portion of my adult life; know them very well and have served with most of them in the Army.

Anymore input about this subject?

I surf for porn.

I think what a lot of people discussing the # of homes with computers are forgetting about Libraries, and businesses.

i AM porn

UNIQUES is not a very useful indicator -- let's say you do 3M uniques/day and then let's say you ran some stats on how many unique IP's you do in a month -- my random guess would be that in a month you would have about 60-70M uniques/month -- but that doesn't mean shit because so many surfers share the same IP's!! I bet if you collected IP's for 1 month -- you would probably find that only 50% of all traffic is really "unique"...

What the fuck does Forbes know anyway? It sounds like fucking propaganda...

Take your new 20 dollar bill and fold it into an airplane and you can see the WTC on fire... I heard this was on TV -- "60 Minutes" -- how fucked up is that?

But you are only taking into consideration traffic from the USA...

Also just because 10 sites have 50M uniques/month doesn't mean that there is 500M traffic on the internet -- because a lot of surfers will hit many or all of the 10 sites...

TheFly:

I think the 22.9 million was referring to USA traffic. World wide traffic would be a much larger number.

It's very simple to gauge.

look at how many non-porn sites go up and then down. Then look at the porn industry using the same scale.

I think porn will come out very favourably. Didn't I read that Yahoo had lost nearly a $Billiion or was it Ebay?

87% of all statistics are made up :P
i wouldent trust it either way...
i'd like to know how they were tracking all these millions of visitors monthly...

that's what i believe also. you wanna know how they got this number? they had an anonymous poll on their floor and then they extrapolated....

but actually i agree with those who claim bad news is good news! i cannot hear enough about dropping sales and playboy loosing money online :winkwink:

Absolute bullshit, people keep their sexual fetish's to themselves. Half of them probably wear panties, some of them are closet homosexuals, & atleast one of them downloads midget porn on a regular basis.

Stick that in your pipe & smoke it.

ALL numbers are wrong.

exactly

and Manties :)

Even less becuase I bet you have lots of people who visit your site once a day.

Correction. You are 100% wrong when referring to my friends. I have known most of these people for twenty to fifty years. I have shared foxholes with several of them. Most of them are retired military officers who spent more years in the service than the majority of the people on this board are old.

David Klatell, associate dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism notes, "[Pornography] is an industry where they exaggerate the size of everything."

This is a true statement. Just look at the posts above ...

They install a piece of software on people's computers to track their usage. So people that surf the net for these tracker programs are followed. Every site they visit is recorded. Most people will simply not visit pornsites 'cause they know they're watched. This makes these statistic programs highly biased to the 'non-adult' sites

Additional... the number are off I think, but I don't know how far they're off. SexTracker saves a 'unique' for a day. These people are talking about 'uniques a month'... so if you're visiting a site on day one and again on day 28 of a month you're still one single unique. And 'cause they have that piece of software installed a unique really is a unique. No cookies that are not accepted or removed, no Internet Eraser programs than can make you a 'unique' more than once.

That combined with the fact all these people are traced closely will get the number they're talking about in this article.

If you control 40% then I control the other 80%.. how does that math add up?