Traffic to Pornhub Skyrocketed During Facebook Outage

Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp were offline for several hours on October 4th, 2021. Starting at about 12pm Eastern Time, Pornhub’s traffic increased by as much as +10.5%, which equals about half a million additional users during each hour that Facebook’s services were down.

Pornhub’s statisticians found similar traffic increases during another Facebook & Instagram Outage in March of 2019.