I bet the link is SFW, but for people on corporate networks like myself: the shortened link from the tweet redirects to pornhub.com which may, or may not, be on your companies whitelist...
On the plus side, if anyone from IT Net asks about my websurfing history, I was just reading it for the 'insightful analytics' ;)
On Saturday January 13, residents all across Hawaii received a text message at 8:07am stating that a ballistic missile was on it’s way to their island and advised they should take shelter immediately. With international tensions currently at a high, it’s no surprise that the warning was taken very, very seriously. We can’t begin to imagine what would go through someone’s mind after reading that message, but based purely on the traffic numbers, it’s NOT to be watching porn.
Based on real-time, per-minute pageviews, and compared to levels on the previous two Saturdays, our statisticians found a precipitous drop in traffic at 8:07am immediately after the warning was sent out. By 8:23am, traffic was a massive -77% below that of a typical Saturday. As residents were notified around 8:45 that the initial warning was sent in error, traffic began to return to normal and Hawaiians collectively breathed a sigh of relief. Those seeking further relief, headed back to Pornhub where pageviews surged +48% above typical levels at 9:01am.
And this is why I (and I believe many others) never read anything personal on corporate network, and even if I'm using the guest wifi network, I always VPN outa there, it saves embarrassment/dismissal when NSFW topics come up at work and DuckDuckGo-ing without filtering is required.
I always wonder how easily PornHub shares it's data and especially personal user's data (like in case of Zayn Malik), PH is a truly garbage website with insane PR campaigns. I'd better go to less famous amateur sites, webcams, http://www.primechats.com/ or something. Moreover, PH is overloaded with viruses and advertising.
What are you comparing to? People rarely present per-minute graphs without smoothing since they're very noisy. I usually see hourly/daily ones, even internally.
The minute ones for web traffic easily jump +/- 5% in my experience.
It's an interesting graph, but I wonder if it's specific for the adult vertical. I could imagine traffic for YouTube showing the same pattern.
Entertainment-related site use may just have gone up and down along this curve (with news-related sites maybe showing the reverse pattern)? Does anyone know other sources of traffic stats (arent there public stats of big internet hubs somewhere?)
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Also confirmation that it was an error was out on Twitter 5 minutes after the alert, which also affects the numbers
But like the other poster said, they might have left on the background, or some might not have gotten the message.
On the plus side, if anyone from IT Net asks about my websurfing history, I was just reading it for the 'insightful analytics' ;)
Traffic graph: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTwcgMZXUAAn1uX.jpg
The blog post reads as follows:
On Saturday January 13, residents all across Hawaii received a text message at 8:07am stating that a ballistic missile was on it’s way to their island and advised they should take shelter immediately. With international tensions currently at a high, it’s no surprise that the warning was taken very, very seriously. We can’t begin to imagine what would go through someone’s mind after reading that message, but based purely on the traffic numbers, it’s NOT to be watching porn.
Based on real-time, per-minute pageviews, and compared to levels on the previous two Saturdays, our statisticians found a precipitous drop in traffic at 8:07am immediately after the warning was sent out. By 8:23am, traffic was a massive -77% below that of a typical Saturday. As residents were notified around 8:45 that the initial warning was sent in error, traffic began to return to normal and Hawaiians collectively breathed a sigh of relief. Those seeking further relief, headed back to Pornhub where pageviews surged +48% above typical levels at 9:01am.
Sure we can, it's simple. It's what would go through your or my mind if we received it.
My first thought would be "amusing-someone's hacked the warning system, better check online... yeah, it's bullshit".
The minute ones for web traffic easily jump +/- 5% in my experience.