Pornhub Insights

Whether you’re feeling lucky or not, St Patrick’s Day is always a fun time and that fun carries over to Pornhub.

Searches containing “leprechaun” increase by 1238% on March 17th, “shamrock” by 811% and “Irish anal” by 412%. Other Irish related terms that grew on St. Patrick’s Day include “Irish cougar”, “Irish Amateur”, “Irish lesbians” and “Irish creampie”.

Scotland represents 7.3% of the U.K.’s traffic to Pornhub and has some interesting differences when it comes to the type of porn watched and the people who watch it. The Scottish Sun asked us to take a closer look.

On March 13th, 2019 popular social media sites Facebook and Instagram experienced their biggest service outage ever. Beginning around 12pm Eastern Time, many users were unable to access the sites for up to 10 hours. The folks at CNET checked in to see if this outage had any effect on Pornhub’s traffic.

Much like we found during the YouTube outage in October, many users keep their fingers busy by heading to Pornhub while waiting for the SFW sites to come back online.

Pornhub Insights last took a detailed look at BBW searches (aka Big Beautiful Women) way back in 2015. In the meantime, BBW (NSFW) searches have continued to appear in numerous Insights posts like our annual Year in Review and niche topics like Feeder Fetish. MEL Magazine asked us to take a more detailed look at what keeps big women hugely popular on Pornhub.

International Women’s Day is March 8th, so our friends at Mashable asked us to take a closer look at what’s Pornhub’s female visitors like to watch. Women’s Day is about bringing women together, but this year the Insights team has decided to showcase how female porn viewership differs all around the world.

If you’ve read our 2018 Year in Review, you may already know that Lesbian
(NSFW) is by far the most popular category of videos viewed by women, and in fact it’s 151% more popular with women when compared to men.