Someone just asked me that and since I was already here…
Anyways, her guess is 70%.
shudder
Somthing about a guy with the name “Anal Scurvy” asking this just rubs me the wrong way.
70% is way too much. I doubt any one topic makes up the billions and billions of sites that make up the internet.
I’m not sure if it mean’s anything, but I googled “porn” and got 26,300,000 hits.
Then I did the same for “religion” and got 12,000,000 hits.
Peace,
mangeorge
I have no cite for this, but I recall reading (in the Washington Post?) last year an estimation that 25% of the WWW is porn.
What are your measurement parameters? ISP server disc space taken up by porn. Share of the data being transmitted at any given moment? Number of Internet address sites? Revenue generated?
Not that I can answer ANY of those…
You mean there’s other stuff on-line?
i was either watching PBS or listening to NPR earlier this week, and in an interview with a fellow, it was said that there were 400,000 separate porn pages.
oh yeah, it was NPR. maybe ATC, but the interview was re: children and internet porno.
jb
p.s.- btw, does anyone except one relatively anti-porn really use the term ‘porno’? i dunno why i did, and i’m definitely not anti-porno
Please don’t mention “anal” and “rub” in the same sentence.
according to http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/issues/stats/issnet.htm
“There are perhaps 250,000 adult-oriented web sites, which constitute probably less than two per cent of the total number of sites. Porn sites are virtually the only ones that make money.”
I suspect that figure is just a guess, but it doesn’t sound to far out.
Okay, first we have to specify what quantifier you are measuring? Individual Domains? WebSpace? Traffic?
Also, another important Question would have to be if you mean the internet or the WWW as the two are radically different beasts. If we were talking about the internet, there woudl be several monoliths which have probably several orders of magnitude of data more than pron sites. It is not uncommon for server farms to have terabyte arrays and even petabytes and I dont think the amount of porn ever produced would even approach that much. Also, in comparison to traffic, many High speed research sites are sfiting around gigabytes of data every second and stuff like High Quality Video Conferencing and weather research stations would chew up many gigabytes as well. As for individual domains, this becomes a bit trickier. As far as I know, Big Corps like to buy relativly few domains and farm everything out internally with load balancers and the like so maybe the proportion of porn sites would be higher.
If we only focus on WWW, then I would have to say that pron and warez would be the top 2 bandwidth suckers on the internet nut I am guessing the “pictures of my dog” sites would have a significant proportion of the domain space.
you must also realize that not all content on the internet is indexed by search engines… so there are vast amounts of data that are not even accounted for on the 'net…
look at it this way: my comp. is connected to the 'net, i run an ftp server, but my enormous porn collection will never turn up in an internet search…
but to answer your question without figures, a helluva lot is porn…
Damn Hoarder! Burn Him, Burn Him!
I’d just like to mention that we (telco) had to turn up some new OC3 trunks in Baltimore because a customer operating a porn web server had such a high volume of traffic that our non-porn customers riding the same trunk were complaining of serious delays. We ended up allocating an entire OC3 trunk to this one customer (between his web server and his ISP).
Of course, the very nature of adult entertainment (lots of pictures & streaming video) means that it’s going to be a bandwidth monster.
I have a friend who’s a graphic artist, she says the technological development of streaming video is almost completely due to pornography.
ISP stats: my science education site got 2.53 million hits in 2001. The ISP owner mentioned that I was running #2 behind the gay porno photo archive. But currently my site is #1. (I don’t know if the porno archive is still there, if it moved to another ISP that would explain it.)
Also, my site makes about $1,500 per year for sciencelub.org by selling science books through Amazon. A porn site probably makes 1000x more, but $1500 is pretty good for not having to do any work.