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As the government shutdown continues, Mashable<\/a> reached out to see if the downtime has had any effect on porn viewership. Pornhub’s statisticians noted not only an increase in visits to the site, but also a distinct shift in the hours during which people are watching porn. When compared to traffic levels prior to the shut-down, weekday visits across the United States were up 5.94% from January 7th to 11th.<\/p>\n

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Pornhub’s peak traffic period across the United States is typically from 1opm to Midnight (see Fappy Hour Insights<\/a>).After the shutdown began, late-night traffic increased by up to 14% above average, while early morning traffic from 9am to 10am had the smallest change.<\/p>\n

Those fluctuations are similar to other events (see Winter Storm Stella<\/a>) when people tend to stay up later and sleep in when they don’t have to go to work in the morning. Afternoon traffic increased by as much a 7% above average at 1pm, when people would typically be at work.<\/p>\n

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Average visit time during the week increased by 33 seconds (from 10 minutes 37 seconds to 11 minutes 10 seconds), further indicating that some people have a bit more time with<\/del> on their hands. Visits from women were also up by 4.2% above average (see 2018 Year in Review<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In Washington, D.C., results were similar with traffic after midnight up nearly 12% and early morning traffic down from 8am to 11am. Overall, D.C. traffic was up 6.32% above average the week of January 7th to 11th when compared to D.C.’s pre-shutdown averages. Female traffic in D.C. increased by 12.3% above average.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of D.C., our statisticians noticed that some category views have increased in popularity compared to pre-shutdown pageviews.<\/p>\n

Are these the favorite categories of government workers?<\/p>\n