Sunday, December 9, 2007

Porn dominates top 1000 sites on Alexa

Porn dominates the top 1000 sites on Alexa. Almost 8% of the top 1000 sites were primarily adult content. I don't think this is a surprise (although this is a higher number than what I initially expected about the top alexa sites). Most people probably already know that porn is the most prevalent content on the web. But it still amazes me how many sites which are all pretty similar can co-exist and thrive. There were 79 porn sites in the top 1000 in alexa - and here I am talking about pure porn sites. If you start including all the picture sharing and file sharing sites (I am told a site like flickr has almost 50% porn content), where porn is also "one of the major" pieces of content, that number would rise dramatically.

So what are the learnings?
1. If you are looking to make some quick bucks, you probably have the highest chance of success if you engage in porn business
2. Advertising networks like adbrite are probably doing excellent business because they have unabashedly supported porn sites.
3. Even if you are trying to execute some non-porn website/idea, you are better off using porn as a "door to the customer"

The list of top adult sites on alexa is here.

And yeah, why is this my first analysis from the list? simply because it's so much easier to identify porn sites compared to any other type... (foreign, english doesn't matter - its pretty easy to identify a naked chick on any site)

1 comment:

PT said...

This was expected. Thanks for the list. Can find the good sites easily now :)