{"id":19759,"date":"2025-08-14T07:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T05:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/uk-traffic-to-popular-porn-sites-slumps-after-age-checks-introduced\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T07:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T05:37:20","slug":"uk-traffic-to-popular-porn-sites-slumps-after-age-checks-introduced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/uk-traffic-to-popular-porn-sites-slumps-after-age-checks-introduced\/","title":{"rendered":"UK traffic to popular porn sites slumps after age checks introduced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Figures from digital data company show effect of strict rules brought in last month under Online Safety Act<\/p>\n<p>British visits to popular pornography sites have slumped following the introduction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jul\/24\/what-are-the-new-uk-online-safety-rules-and-how-will-they-be-enforced\">strict age checks last month<\/a>, data shows.<\/p>\n<p>Daily visits to Pornhub, the UK\u2019s most used porn site, fell from 3.6m on 24 July, the day before age-gating was introduced, to 1.9m on 8 August, a drop of 47%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/aug\/13\/porn-site-traffic-falls-online-safety-act-age-checks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/09e519c04798e9f200005220d9e6b2c61611be16\/486_0_4023_3217\/master\/4023.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=55532683ca7f98a2c4660c4b8cfc53f4\" title=\"UK traffic to popular porn sites slumps after age checks introduced\" \/>Figures from digital data company show effect of strict rules brought in last month under Online Safety Act<br \/>\nBritish visits to popular pornography sites have slumped following the introduction of strict age checks last month, data shows.<br \/>\nDaily visits to Pornhub, the UK\u2019s most used porn site, fell from 3.6m on 24 July, the day before age-gating was introduced, to 1.9m on 8 August, a drop of 47%. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figures from digital data company show effect of strict rules brought in last month under Online Safety Act British visits to popular pornography sites have slumped following the introduction of strict age checks last month, data shows. Daily visits to Pornhub, the UK\u2019s most used porn site, fell from 3.6m on 24 July, the day &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/uk-traffic-to-popular-porn-sites-slumps-after-age-checks-introduced\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK traffic to popular porn sites slumps after age checks introduced<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19759"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}