Are adult sites are losing visitors?

[Halfdeck]

http://www.economist.com/business/di...ory_id=9040354

[Jim]

Originally Posted by Halfdeck

http://www.economist.com/business/di...ory_id=9040354

That's an interesting article and I saw a chart that looks like that a couple of months ago. But, it was for different sites.

Here is what has me puzzled about the premise of less people going to adult sites. As long as there are new people getting online, new people are going to visit adult sites. I could understand if the article said that the adult site market was saturated and individual sites were getting less visitors. But, to say that adult sites as a whole are getting less visitors just seems wrong. As "old" people stop visiting, "new" people begin.

[r3n3gad3]

Originally Posted by Halfdeck

http://www.economist.com/business/di...ory_id=9040354

that was the article I was reffering to, thnx Halfdeck!

But if this is true we will need to search for different methods to keep the visitors on our sites..

[Halfdeck]

That graph isn't tracking change in overall number of visits, just change in % share. You could have more people visiting adult sites and still show a negative trend.

For example:

Month 1:3 adult site visits / 3 myspace visits = 50%/50%.
Month 2:5 adult site visits / 15 myspace visits = 25% / 75%.

[Jim]

Originally Posted by Halfdeck

That graph isn't tracking change in overall number of visits, just change in % share. You could have more people visiting adult sites and still show a negative trend.

For example:

Month 1:3 adult site visits / 3 myspace visits = 50%/50%.
Month 2:5 adult site visits / 15 myspace visits = 25% / 75%.

I thought of that just after I posted. You also have to look at one of the largest groups of new users...children. Of parents online, almost 1/3rd of their children under 2 are also online. And the largest group of new users are people under 21. So when you throw underage users into the mix, the data has to be scued.