St. Patrick’s Day Insights

The Pornhub statisticians took a break from their celebrations to look at how Saint Patrick’s Day affected traffic to Pornhub and the type of porn that people were looking to get lucky with. After the results of our Valentines and Christmas holiday reviews, we were expecting a pot of statistical gold from Saint Pat, and we weren’t disappointed.

The Luck of the Irish

Two major trends stood out on Saint Patrick’s Day. Searches including the words “luck” and “lucky” were up 260% and searches with the word “Irish” were up an incredible 625%! What does leprechaun sex look like? We’re honestly afraid to look. But after a few drinks, it seems to be the question asked by a lot of Pornhub viewers. Searches for “leprechaun” increased an incredible 9325% compared to an average day!

Next up was “St Patricks Day” at 5904% and in 4th place “Saint Patrick” at 4948%. Much of the list includes common Pornhub search terms combined with “Irish” like “Irish Creampie” (5220%), “Irish Anal” (1429%), “Irish Teen” (1016%) and “Irish Lesbians” (1100%). Other popular searches are combined with the word “green” like “green panties” (231%) and “green hair” (149%).

Irish Increases

Without a doubt Saint Patrick’s Day causes a major uptick in Irish themed porn interests. But as we can see from the following chart, searches for “Irish” begin to rise a few days before March 17th, and then drop off sharply after. They reach of peak of 7.25x the daily average.

United Kingdom Traffic

Saint Patrick’s Day is a bank holiday only in some parts of the United Kingdom. In England, Wales and Scotland, where St-Pat’s celebrations happen at night, we see only minor changes to the day’s Pornhub traffic.

In Ireland and Northern Ireland, where most people enjoy the day off, traffic increases to Pornhub. Visits are up 11% in Northern Ireland and 5% in Ireland.

By the Hour

Finally we take a look at traffic by the hour from Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. In the follow chart, times are adjusted to their local timezones (Eastern time in the case of the United States) and the traffic change is compared to an average day and time.

In anticipation of the celebrations, traffic in Ireland is up 55% in the wee hours, but returns to normal by 6am. It increases steadily from 8am to 2pm, but then drops 15% below average by 6pm. In the United Kingdom, traffic fluctuates throughout the day, but drops in the evening after 6pm. In the United States we see a much higher increase throughout the day – up to 8% over normal, but then a steady drop from 6pm to midnight.