Literotica is 22% Women (plus other stats)

[HeyAll]

I noticed that SimilarWeb recently opened their free information page again (for a while some stats weren't accesssable anymore)

https://www.similarweb.com/website/literotica.com/#overview

- Lit gets 60 million unique viewers a month

- Biggest age group is 25-35

- Average visit is 17 minutes

- 51% of the audience is from America

- 2nd largest erotica site has 15 million monthly users

 

[000zing]

Where does your "22%" come from, pray? Totally and utterly exaggerated.

 

[lovecraft68]

17 minutes isn't a lot of time for reading much more than a two or three page story
Yet somehow long stories do very well here.
My guess is the 17 minutes is from people who only use the boards and pop in for a couple minutes at a time to post then drift off and come back later, repeat.
Of the 60 million unique viewers...how many are bots? Think the recent revelation on twitter, except Lit isn't welcoming the bots its just web crawlers etc...
I refuse to believe any gender stats, people fill that out here themselves, Many don't at all, and many aren't being honest for whatever reason. If this site spies deeper into the limited info lit needs to start an account-an e-mail address-that's a problem.

 

[KeithD]

There's no way to determine either the age range or the gender mix for users of Literotica. It's based on what is claimed in registering, which doesn't have any requirement to be true. I have a few female accounts myself (based on the genre of stories written to those accounts).

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Interesting and thanks.

The 22% comes from the link. The figure may or may not be accurate, as noted. If it’s self-identification, then it’s hopeless. On the other hand, if the algorithms used are sophisticated enough, I suppose it would be possible it could be close. Online ad targeting is gender-specific and I doubt the providers would be hesitant to sell that data.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Interesting and thanks.

The 22% comes from the link. The figure may or may not be accurate, as noted. If it’s self-identification, then it’s hopeless. On the other hand, if the algorithms used are sophisticated enough, I suppose it would be possible it could be close. Online ad targeting is gender-specific and I doubt the providers would be hesitant to sell that data.

I don't know a lot about algorithms, but that would be a difficult task. What would they go on, the style of writing? What does that mean? The user name? A sizable number of registered users don't fill out that box. There must be some who are not telling the truth, or who are transgender and identify one way or the other, and a number of such issues. I would have a hard time even guessing if that 22% figure is close to accurate or not.

 

[NC_Coastal]

The 22-percent sounds about right to me, at least in the forums. The writing side? Doesn't matter. The chat room are heavily populated with fake accounts, bots, posers etc. Here, I can usually tell when a "woman" is really a guy. I think most of us can.

 

[KeithD]

Nope. Putting a percentage tp male/female to either writers or readers here (or age ranges even) simply can't be done. Some folks rely too heavily on the capability of statistics--even ones built on sinking sand.

 

[Bubo_bubo]

Statistics are very much GIGO.

 

[gunhilltrain]

The 22-percent sounds about right to me, at least in the forums. The writing side? Doesn't matter. The chat room are heavily populated with fake accounts, bots, posers etc. Here, I can usually tell when a "woman" is really a guy. I think most of us can.

Maybe, maybe not. I got it wrong recently on an email group. Near the beginning of the exchange, I changed my mind, then I found out that my initial guess was correct.

 

[lovecraft68]

The 22-percent sounds about right to me, at least in the forums. The writing side? Doesn't matter. The chat room are heavily populated with fake accounts, bots, posers etc. Here, I can usually tell when a "woman" is really a guy. I think most of us can.

Might not be true as much now, but when I was first here and did some role playing I found the most 'lewd' women were the ones who were guys.

Where a lot of guys posing as women reside is in the am pic threads. They're posting pics of their wife or GF while pretending to be them and the wife/GF has no idea her pictures are there...that's a very common reason men pose as women, at least here

 

[Lifestyle66]

I don't know whether the 22% women Stat is accurate or not. But don't assume women are not reading these stories. My own wife occasionally (maybe once per week) spends an hour or two reading LitE stories. But she doesn't have an account, and just does so anonymously.

 

[NotWise]

I noticed that SimilarWeb recently opened their free information page again (for a while some stats weren't accesssable anymore)

https://www.similarweb.com/website/literotica.com/#overview

- Lit gets 60 million unique viewers a year

- Biggest age group is 25-35

- Average visit is 17 minutes

- 51% of the audience is from America

- 2nd largest erotica site has 15 million monthly users

That's actually 60 million unique hits a month.

The stats from Similarweb would not be based on any claims made by users in their account registration. They would be based on web analytics.

 

[Magineer]

Might not be true as much now, but when I was first here and did some role playing I found the most 'lewd' women were the ones who were guys.

Where a lot of guys posing as women reside is in the am pic threads. They're posting pics of their wife or GF while pretending to be them and the wife/GF has no idea her pictures are there...that's a very common reason men pose as women, at least here

If women account for more than 5% of Lit. membership or even just guest visitors, I'll eat my hat. It's probably much lower still even than that.

 

[lovecraft68]

If women account for more than 5% of Lit. membership or even just guest visitors, I'll eat my hat. It's probably much lower still even than that.

You want to find the women? Look behind male pen names. They write as men, sometimes they post as men to avoid all the bullshit they deal with here from men.

 

[Trionyx]

What about that other interesting statistic: Annual Revenue $5 - $10 million?

 

[Carnevil9]

Statistics are very much GIGO.

"The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself." - Winston Churchill

 

[water_moutina]

Statistics are very much GIGO.

What's gigo?

 

[Trionyx]

Garbage in, garbage out.

 

[lovecraft68]

What about that other interesting statistic: Annual Revenue $5 - $10 million?

Its been a long running topic of what the site does and doesn't make. I don't think that number seems real...
But if it makes that much and looks and runs like this? 99% of that is profit and we should be getting a lot more prize money in contests, seeing we're the source of most of their income

 

[KeithD]

They would be based on web analytics.

In Literotica's case, voodoo science based on some folks needing to believe there are reliable stats for everything.

 

[Bubo_bubo]

What's gigo?

What Trionyx said. Statistics are a tool, and can be a powerful tool. But they're only as good as the data you feed them.

 

[8letters]

Its been a long running topic of what the site does and doesn't make. I don't think that number seems real...
But if it makes that much and looks and runs like this? 99% of that is profit and we should be getting a lot more prize money in contests, seeing we're the source of most of their income

$5-10 million sounds ridiculously high. Literotica gets money for referring people to other sites for them to purchase products or services. Let's say that they get $1 for each referral that winds up in a sale. To make $5 million, they need 0.7% of their annual unique views to result into a referral that winds up in a sale. That seems ridiculously high to me. I'd guess that they'd be lucky if 0.05% of their unique views turned into a referral that winds up in a sale. That'd be $360K year. You can play around the math, but ultimately someone has to buy something somewhere for Literotica to make money, and I just don't see that happening that often.

If Literotica was really making $5-10 million, other story sites would be giving the most popular Literotica authors money to move to their site. I've not heard anything remotely like that happening.

 

[lovecraft68]

$5-10 million sounds ridiculously high. Literotica gets money for referring people to other sites for them to purchase products or services. Let's say that they get $1 for each referral that winds up in a sale. To make $5 million, they need 0.7% of their annual unique views to result into a referral that winds up in a sale. That seems ridiculously high to me. I'd guess that they'd be lucky if 0.05% of their unique views turned into a referral that winds up in a sale. That'd be $360K year. You can play around the math, but ultimately someone has to buy something somewhere for Literotica to make money, and I just don't see that happening that often.

If Literotica was really making $5-10 million, other story sites would be giving the most popular Literotica authors money to move to their site. I've not heard anything remotely like that happening.

They have paid advertising and do sell items from their store direct, sex toys etc...which of course I am sure is through a drop ship site that takes half to pack and ship and store the item. 5-10 mill is high. TBH even if they make 200k that's a pretty good income and they don't have a staff or overhead.

 

[Bubo_bubo]

Its been a long running topic of what the site does and doesn't make. I don't think that number seems real...
But if it makes that much and looks and runs like this? 99% of that is profit and we should be getting a lot more prize money in contests, seeing we're the source of most of their income

Bollocks. Staff costs alone could be easily 1M$ on a yearly basis. (if the data of 11-50 staff are any indication).