Introduction

Adult platforms are among the highest-traffic destinations on the internet, and they are also among the hardest places to get personal content removed. A single upload can be mirrored across dozens of tube sites within hours, indexed by search engines within days, and scraped into aggregators that have no discoverable owner at all.

This report does two things. First, it maps where the traffic actually sits, because removal effort should be prioritized by exposure, not by alphabetical order. Second, it sets out the removal mechanisms that exist in 2026, in the order you should use them, including the new federal deadline that changed the calculus in the United States this year.

If you are dealing with intimate images shared without your consent, you are not asking for a favor. As of May 2026 you are exercising a statutory right, and platforms that ignore you are exposed to federal penalties.

If you need professional help with a difficult removal, submit the URLs through deleteme Custom Removals. The service reviews complex websites and may use direct takedown requests, privacy arguments, negotiations, terms-of-service complaints, or legal escalation. Removal cannot be guaranteed, and timing depends on the website and the facts of the case.

Part 1: Where the Traffic Is

Most-visited adult websites worldwide, June 2026

The table below is drawn from Semrush Traffic Analytics, which builds its estimates from clickstream data covering roughly 200 million anonymized users. Figures are monthly visits, not unique visitors. A visit is a single session, so a single person can account for many.

Traffic Table

Source: Semrush Trending Websites, Adult category, worldwide, June 2026 data.

Note that Semrush’s category classification is broad. Patreon and DeviantArt appear because a meaningful share of their traffic is adult-adjacent, not because they are adult platforms in the ordinary sense. Their removal processes are nonetheless relevant and are covered below.

For US-specific context, Pornhub leads the domestic market with 772.9M monthly visits as of June 2026, followed by XVideos at 693.51M and XNXX at 406.32M.

The three findings that matter for removal strategy

Consolidation is high.

The top four domains account for roughly 8.7 billion monthly visits between them. Four takedown workflows cover the overwhelming majority of realistic exposure. Prioritize accordingly.

Search-led sites are the reinfection vector.

Notice which sites in the table are search-led rather than direct-led: ThePornDude, XVideos.es, Qorno, FPO.xxx, PornPics, RedTube, Beeg. These are the domains that scrape, mirror, and re-host content from the majors, and they exist because search traffic finds them. Removing content from Pornhub without also de-indexing at the search layer leaves the mirror ecosystem fully intact.

Traffic is overwhelmingly mobile.

Every major platform sits between 82 and 95 percent mobile. If a removal request form is broken on mobile, most people who need it cannot file. Where a platform’s form fails on a phone, use a desktop browser before concluding the process does not exist.

Corporate ownership map

Removal requests go to companies, not to domains. Sending one well-constructed request to the right corporate entity can clear multiple properties at once.

Ownership attributions here reflect publicly reported corporate structures. Verify current entity details before sending formal legal correspondence, as holding structures in this sector change frequently.