{"id":11237,"date":"2017-06-15T17:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/?p=11237"},"modified":"2017-06-15T18:09:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T22:09:54","slug":"uk-election-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/uk-election-traffic","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Traffic Changes During General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. General Election took place on June 8, 2017. Just as we found during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/election-day\">U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>, anticipation of a government change can have an effect on daily traffic to Pornhub. When our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2017\/06\/15\/brits-watched-less-porn-on-polling-day-proving-politics-isnt-sexy-6711661\/\">Metro UK<\/a> inquired, our statisticians\u00a0soon found that across the United Kingdom, traffic was down as much as -14% compared to an average Thursday. In the afternoon and early evening, traffic was up 10% above daily averages, but then fell by -8% at midnight as people awaited results from a hung parliament. After 2am, traffic shot up well above average levels in\u00a0the wee hours.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pornhub-insights-uk-election-2017-UNITED-KINGDOM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"615\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scotland&#8217;s traffic fell drastically between 9pm and 3am with a low of -20% at 1am compared to an average day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pornhub-insights-uk-election-2017-scotland.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"615\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Northern Ireland also followed the election results closely, with a -11% drop compared to 1am on an average day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pornhub-insights-uk-election-2017-northern-ireland.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"615\" \/><\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s traffic was down from 10pm to 1am but only by -7% compared to an average day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pornhub-insights-uk-election-2017-england.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"615\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The election clearly had an effect on\u00a0when people were watching Pornhub that day, but how about what they were searching for? Just as we found with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/trump-family-searches\">Trump Related Searches<\/a> during the U.S. Election, people were indeed searching Pornhub for their leading lady. Or were they? Turns out there is a pornstar named &#8220;Teresa&#8221; May, so it&#8217;s hard to say if people were seeking her or the &#8220;Theresa&#8221; P.M. Either way, searches containing\u00a0either Theresa May or Teresa May were up 128% on June 8, and 235% on June 9.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pornhub-insights-teresa-theresa-may-searches.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"801\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. General Election took place on June 8, 2017. Just as we found during the U.S. Presidential Election, anticipation of a government change can have an effect on daily traffic to Pornhub. When our friends at Metro UK inquired, our statisticians\u00a0soon found that across the United Kingdom, traffic was down as much as -14% &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/uk-election-traffic\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;U.K. Traffic Changes During General Election&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11237"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11333,"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237\/revisions\/11333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pornhub.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}