Pornhub (pornhub.com) is a porn tube site owned by Aylo (formerly MindGeek) which owns other sites such as YouPorn, RedTube, and Brazzers. It offers free porn videos. It is known for its high-definition short videos that are often snippets taken from premium videos you would otherwise have to pay for the full versions. Pornhub also offers user profiles and for users to upload their own porn content. A user profile can also add friends similar to a social media site such as Facebook. According to its Wikipedia page, PornHub is the 13th most trafficked site in the world and only second to Xvideos in the pornography niche. Pornhub gets a lot of its traffic from search engines, particularly its category and tag pages which are often high-trafficked pages for some of the most browsed porn categories.

As of December 2023, pornhub.com has 2.317 billion monthly views (2.6 billion Dec 2022), according to Similar Web. The Wayback Machine estimates pornhub.com to be founded on February 1, 2001. The Internet Archive has saved pornhub.com 123,890 times between February 1, 2001 and January 24, 2024.

Pornhub.com runs on Openresty, and its IP address is 66.254.114.41.

Is pornhub.com Safe?

I analyzed pornhub.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam. Here are the results:

I checked the site pornhub.com on Sucuri, and it returned with no issues. Results: Sucuri scan for the site pornhub.com.

Pornhub Sucuri results

I then ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on pornhub.com, and it is suspicious. Results: Unmask Parasites scan for the site pornhub.com.

I have listed the script below:

var atatusLoad=function(){var c=document.querySelector("head");function e(){var t;1==(t={min:1,max:14448},min=Math.ceil(t...

Unmask Parasites calls it a “long suspicious script.”

I also checked pornhub.com on the online malware scanner VirusTotal and it isn’t flagged as malicious; however, it does have a very unfavorable community score. Results: VirusTotal scan for the site pornhub.com.

Pornhub VirusTotal results

In conclusion, Sucuri says pornhub.com doesn’t have malware. Unmask Parasites says pornhub.com has 1 suspicious inline script. VirusTotal says the domain pornhub.com isn’t malicious; however, it does have an unfavorable community score. OVERALL GRADE: Relatively Safe.

Links and Profiles

Website: pornhub.com
Twitter: @Pornhub

References

1. SimilarWeb – pornhub.com

2. Wayback Machine – pornhub.com

(Last Updated: 2/19/2024)