Facebook more popular than porn for UK users

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What a crappy article from a "technology reporter". He mixes hits, page views, visits; web traffic and online traffic. BBC would have done better to link to the original article rather than having a confused writer report about it.

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

the results are probably because users often refresh their facebook often, but the don't do that with porn
and you can only "hit" a porn site once or twice a day, your reproductive system cannot keep up with more
and the article failed to consider bittorrent

When you refresh a page and new content is available and gets loaded, you gain new "hits". Probably the average facebook page becomes more often filled with new content than the average porn page.
You're also mixing hit with page impression in your example - I'll leave the rest of your statement uncommnted.
Is bittorrent still this popular? Here the amount of web traffic caused by torrents is becoming less. Has certainly something to do with streaming sites and prosecution of illegal torrents.
However the article only speaks about web traffic, so in this case it is fine to leave other traffic out.

And please do change you sig! the strobe effect is really annoying when you read something static like a text and you see something blinking all the time. If you have something important to say in your sig, write a text into it! Thanks!