Site teardown · Pornhub
pornhub.com
Site health · August 17, 2026
Prepared by Harvv

What your site is actually doing.

One page: what is working, what is costing you visitors, and what to fix next. A phone-and-desktop teardown of the live site: 4 phone loads + 2 desktop loads, cross-checked against real Chrome users from Google's field data. No login, no insider access, no Harvv pixel needed. The full evidence is at the bottom.

August 17, 2026·External scan + real-user field data·4 mobile + 2 desktop loads + Google CrUX·Download as PDF

Working

What's already working. These held up across every load.

1.8s

Speed is good.

0.00

Layout stays put as it loads.

0

No JavaScript errors on load.

Nothing spilled past the edge at either 390px (phone) or 1366px (desktop), so the structure is responsive.

Costing you

Ranked by what hurts conversion most. Full evidence below.

60/127

Tiny buttons are hard to tap on mobile

7

A floating widget is covering a clickable element

4

Google Analytics tracking broken

SEO

Some links cannot be followed by Google

a11y

Some buttons have no accessible name

41%

Add quotations so AI engines cite this page

Fixing next
tap targets, obscured control and page weight.

3 small changes, on the pages people actually land on: Tiny buttons are hard to tap on mobile; A floating widget is covering a clickable element; Page is heavy and slow on mobile data. We re-measure the same samples after.

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01Findings, ranked by what hurts conversion most

SeverityFindingHow we know
HighTiny buttons are hard to tap on mobileMobileAccessibility (WCAG)Conversion
60 of 127 tappable items on this page (47%) measure under 24 pixels on their shorter side, below the WCAG minimum, and well under the 44 pixels Apple and Google recommend for reliable tapping. When visitors can't hit what they expect to, they get frustrated and many of them leave instead of trying again.
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median across loads
HighA floating widget is covering a clickable elementBothConversionAccessibility (WCAG)
7 clickable elements are sitting underneath a fixed overlay (div.modalMTubes over button), so a visitor who tries to tap them hits the widget on top instead. The element is there and looks fine in a preview, it just can't be reached. Move the floating widget to a clear corner, lower its z-index, or add spacing so it never overlaps your links and buttons.
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HighGoogle Analytics tracking brokenBoth
The Google Analytics request failed to complete on every one of the 4 test loads. If real visitors hit the same failure, GA is missing those visits and the dashboard has no way to flag it. Conversion numbers, audience counts, and channel attribution are all undercounting. Worth checking the tag loading order and any consent banner that might be blocking the request.
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HighSome links cannot be followed by GoogleBothSEO
Links that are not real anchors with an href cannot be crawled, so the pages they point to may never get indexed.
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HighSome buttons have no accessible nameBothAccessibility (WCAG)Tracking
A button with only an icon and no label is announced as "button" by screen readers, giving no idea what it does.
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HighAdd quotations so AI engines cite this pageBothAI SearchSEO
Generative engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews) lift sourced, attributed quotes almost verbatim, and quotations are the single strongest citation lever (studies measure roughly +41%). Add 1-2 attributed expert quotes or blockquotes to the pages below. (Found across a sample of 1 pages from your sitemap, a partial crawl rather than your full site.)
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MediumPage is heavy and slow on mobile dataBothPerformance
Each visit downloads about 2.5 megabytes, roughly 1883 KB of images and 568 KB of JavaScript across 170 separate downloads. On a fast connection that's fine. On a phone with patchy mobile data, that's several seconds of blank screen before the page is readable.
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median across loads
MediumThe page has no main headingBoth
There is no <h1>. Search engines and screen readers use the H1 to understand what the page is about. Add exactly one that states the page's purpose.
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Medium2 form fields have no labelBothAccessibility (WCAG)ConversionTracking
Screen readers can't announce these fields, and a sighted user who clears the placeholder can't recover the prompt. Wrap each input in <label>…</label> or add aria-label.
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Medium1 input uses the wrong type attributeBothConversion
Mobile keyboards adapt to the input type (email shows @ key, tel shows numeric pad). Generic type="text" gets a generic keyboard and visitors mis-type. Switch to the correct type.
The exact elements we found:
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MediumClick activity may be invisible inside the Facebook in-app browserBothTracking
Patterns on this page (34 inline onclick handlers) tend to suppress click events inside Android Webview and iOS in-app browsers. Visitors arriving from Meta ads may register as zero-interaction sessions even when they're actively using the page. Add a server-side landing tracker so you don't lose that audience entirely.
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Medium21 interactive elements have no stable, accessible identityBothAccessibility (WCAG)Tracking
These elements are clicked like buttons but expose no accessible name, or are a plain div/span used as a control with no role. Assistive tech announces only a role (or nothing), and analytics and heatmaps have no human-readable label or stable selector to bind the click to, so the click is both inaccessible and untrackable, and any redesign silently breaks click aggregation. Give each one a real <button>/<a>, an aria-label, and a stable id or data-attribute.
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MediumNo XML sitemap foundBoth
No sitemap.xml at the standard location and none listed in robots.txt. A sitemap tells search engines every page you want indexed; without it they rely on link discovery and may miss pages.
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LowSecurity headers are missing or weakBothSecurity
The server response is missing browser-hardening headers that protect visitors and are a standard security and agency checklist item. Missing or weak here: Content-Security-Policy (the main defense against injected and cross-site scripts); X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff (stops MIME-type sniffing attacks). These are set at the server, CDN, or host level (most platforms expose them in settings or a config file) and do not change how the site looks or performs.
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LowLinks to this page will look bare when sharedBoth
The page is missing its Open Graph title and image, so when someone shares it on Facebook, LinkedIn, iMessage, or Slack the preview has no title and image. A flat grey link gets far fewer clicks than one with an image and headline.
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LowNo advertising pixel detectedBothTracking
Analytics is present but no Meta/Google/TikTok ad pixel was found. If you run paid ads, conversion tracking should be installed before the next campaign so the platforms can optimize toward buyers, not clicks.
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LowNo email capture or newsletter detectedBothConversion
No email-marketing tag (Klaviyo, Mailchimp, etc.) was found. If capturing visitors is relevant to this site, an email signup builds an owned audience you keep regardless of ad costs. Not every site needs one.
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LowUnused JavaScript is being downloadedBothPerformance
Code that never runs on this page still costs download and parse time on every visit. Splitting or removing it speeds up load. Lighthouse measured: Est savings of 177 KiB.
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LowUnused CSS is being downloadedBothPerformance
Style rules that this page never uses still block rendering while they download. Trimming them frees the paint path. Lighthouse measured: Est savings of 76 KiB.
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Accessibility findings are automated checks against Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 and 2.2. They flag potential barriers and legal risk, not a certification or a determination of compliance with the ADA, Section 508, or EN 301 549. Automated testing catches only a subset of issues; a full conformance review needs manual and assistive-technology testing by a qualified reviewer.

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"How we know": unlabeled = a deterministic fact, identical on every load (e.g. element sizes). Most findings are this kind, so we only mark the exceptions: median across loads = a noisy lab metric, reported as a median. real-user field data = Google CrUX, actual Chrome visitors.

Structural and AI-search checks crawl up to 8 pages from your sitemap (a sample, not your full site). "Broken" means a link returned 404, 410, or 5xx, or did not respond; access-controlled pages (401, 403) are not counted.

01bTake the whole report to your AI

Every finding above in one payload, with the reasoning behind each one. The prompt is written to be pasted into Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT. The JSON is for piping into your own tooling.

Includes the site context, what is already working (so your assistant does not "fix" it), and every finding with its severity, evidence, and why it matters.
Audit of https://pornhub.com/, run August 17, 2026. 19 issues were found. I want them fixed.

## Context
- Site: https://pornhub.com/
- Mobile LCP (lab median): 388 ms
- Desktop LCP (lab median): 366 ms
- Page weight (median): 2.5 MB
- Tap targets under 44px: 47% (60 of 127)
- Evidence base: 4 mobile + 2 desktop loads + Google CrUX field data

## Already working, do not change these
- Speed is good: Real Chrome visitors see the main content in 1.8s (Google's "good" bar is 2.5s). This is field data from actual users, not a lab guess.
- Layout stays put as it loads: Real visitors see only 0.00 of layout shift (good is under 0.10), so the page is not jumping under their finger.
- No JavaScript errors on load: Nothing threw a script error across the test loads, so buttons and tracking are not silently breaking mid-session.
- Layout holds on phone and desktop: Nothing spilled past the edge at either 390px (phone) or 1366px (desktop), so the structure is responsive.

## Issues, most damaging first

### 1. [HIGH] Tiny buttons are hard to tap on mobile
Affects: mobile only
Category: Accessibility (WCAG), Conversion
Why it matters: 60 of 127 tappable items on this page (47%) measure under 24 pixels on their shorter side, below the WCAG minimum, and well under the 44 pixels Apple and Google recommend for reliable tapping. When visitors can't hit what they expect to, they get frustrated and many of them leave instead of trying again.
Exact elements found: a 89x16 "Cookie Notice", a 101x16 "Lexis Star Show", a 65x16 "Pillow Talk", a 74x16 "Pornhub TV", a 344x22 "Get Ready with me : Asa Akir", a 82x16 "Holly Randall", a 53x16 "Pornhub", a 344x22 "Amateur Couple’s First Time "
How we know: median across loads

### 2. [HIGH] A floating widget is covering a clickable element
Category: Conversion, Accessibility (WCAG)
Why it matters: 7 clickable elements are sitting underneath a fixed overlay (div.modalMTubes over button), so a visitor who tries to tap them hits the widget on top instead. The element is there and looks fine in a preview, it just can't be reached. Move the floating widget to a clear corner, lower its z-index, or add spacing so it never overlaps your links and buttons.
Exact elements found: button under div.modalMTubes, a "LIVE CAMS" under div.modalMTubes, a "VOD" under div.modalMTubes, a "SEXY CHAT" under div.modalMTubes, a "FLING HOOKUPS 🔥" under div.modalMTubes, a "Pornhub Cares" under div.modalMTubes

### 3. [HIGH] Google Analytics tracking broken
Why it matters: The Google Analytics request failed to complete on every one of the 4 test loads. If real visitors hit the same failure, GA is missing those visits and the dashboard has no way to flag it. Conversion numbers, audience counts, and channel attribution are all undercounting. Worth checking the tag loading order and any consent banner that might be blocking the request.

### 4. [HIGH] Some links cannot be followed by Google
Category: SEO
Why it matters: Links that are not real anchors with an href cannot be crawled, so the pages they point to may never get indexed.

### 5. [HIGH] Some buttons have no accessible name
Category: Accessibility (WCAG), Tracking
Why it matters: A button with only an icon and no label is announced as "button" by screen readers, giving no idea what it does.

### 6. [HIGH] Add quotations so AI engines cite this page
Category: AI Search, SEO
Why it matters: Generative engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews) lift sourced, attributed quotes almost verbatim, and quotations are the single strongest citation lever (studies measure roughly +41%). Add 1-2 attributed expert quotes or blockquotes to the pages below. (Found across a sample of 1 pages from your sitemap, a partial crawl rather than your full site.)

### 7. [MEDIUM] Page is heavy and slow on mobile data
Category: Performance
Why it matters: Each visit downloads about 2.5 megabytes, roughly 1883 KB of images and 568 KB of JavaScript across 170 separate downloads. On a fast connection that's fine. On a phone with patchy mobile data, that's several seconds of blank screen before the page is readable.
How we know: median across loads

### 8. [MEDIUM] The page has no main heading
Why it matters: There is no <h1>. Search engines and screen readers use the H1 to understand what the page is about. Add exactly one that states the page's purpose.

### 9. [MEDIUM] 2 form fields have no label
Category: Accessibility (WCAG), Conversion, Tracking
Why it matters: Screen readers can't announce these fields, and a sighted user who clears the placeholder can't recover the prompt. Wrap each input in <label>…</label> or add aria-label.
Exact elements found: name="email" (input) placeholder="Email", name="password" (input) placeholder="Password"

### 10. [MEDIUM] 1 input uses the wrong type attribute
Category: Conversion
Why it matters: Mobile keyboards adapt to the input type (email shows @ key, tel shows numeric pad). Generic type="text" gets a generic keyboard and visitors mis-type. Switch to the correct type.
Exact elements found: name="email" → use type="email"

### 11. [MEDIUM] Click activity may be invisible inside the Facebook in-app browser
Category: Tracking
Why it matters: Patterns on this page (34 inline onclick handlers) tend to suppress click events inside Android Webview and iOS in-app browsers. Visitors arriving from Meta ads may register as zero-interaction sessions even when they're actively using the page. Add a server-side landing tracker so you don't lose that audience entirely.

### 12. [MEDIUM] 21 interactive elements have no stable, accessible identity
Category: Accessibility (WCAG), Tracking
Why it matters: These elements are clicked like buttons but expose no accessible name, or are a plain div/span used as a control with no role. Assistive tech announces only a role (or nothing), and analytics and heatmaps have no human-readable label or stable selector to bind the click to, so the click is both inaccessible and untrackable, and any redesign silently breaks click aggregation. Give each one a real <button>/<a>, an aria-label, and a stable id or data-attribute.
Exact elements found: (button.globalCookieBanner__close) (no accessible name), (button.gtm-event-age-verification) (no accessible name), (button.gtm-event-age-verification) (no accessible name), (div.moreActionKebabMenuButton) (no accessible name), (div.moreActionKebabMenuButton) (no accessible name), (div.moreActionKebabMenuButton) (no accessible name), (div.moreActionKebabMenuButton) (no accessible name), (div.moreActionKebabMenuButton) (no accessible name)

### 13. [MEDIUM] No XML sitemap found
Why it matters: No sitemap.xml at the standard location and none listed in robots.txt. A sitemap tells search engines every page you want indexed; without it they rely on link discovery and may miss pages.

### 14. [LOW] Security headers are missing or weak
Category: Security
Why it matters: The server response is missing browser-hardening headers that protect visitors and are a standard security and agency checklist item. Missing or weak here: Content-Security-Policy (the main defense against injected and cross-site scripts); X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff (stops MIME-type sniffing attacks). These are set at the server, CDN, or host level (most platforms expose them in settings or a config file) and do not change how the site looks or performs.

### 15. [LOW] Links to this page will look bare when shared
Why it matters: The page is missing its Open Graph title and image, so when someone shares it on Facebook, LinkedIn, iMessage, or Slack the preview has no title and image. A flat grey link gets far fewer clicks than one with an image and headline.

### 16. [LOW] No advertising pixel detected
Category: Tracking
Why it matters: Analytics is present but no Meta/Google/TikTok ad pixel was found. If you run paid ads, conversion tracking should be installed before the next campaign so the platforms can optimize toward buyers, not clicks.

### 17. [LOW] No email capture or newsletter detected
Category: Conversion
Why it matters: No email-marketing tag (Klaviyo, Mailchimp, etc.) was found. If capturing visitors is relevant to this site, an email signup builds an owned audience you keep regardless of ad costs. Not every site needs one.

### 18. [LOW] Unused JavaScript is being downloaded
Category: Performance
Why it matters: Code that never runs on this page still costs download and parse time on every visit. Splitting or removing it speeds up load. Lighthouse measured: Est savings of 177 KiB.

### 19. [LOW] Unused CSS is being downloaded
Category: Performance
Why it matters: Style rules that this page never uses still block rendering while they download. Trimming them frees the paint path. Lighthouse measured: Est savings of 76 KiB.

## How to respond
Work through the issues in order. For each one give me the specific change that fixes it: real code or real copy, not advice. Keep changes minimal and match the existing style of the site.
Where several issues share one root cause, say so and fix it once rather than patching each symptom.
If an issue cannot be fixed without seeing more of the code, say exactly which file or selector you need instead of guessing.
19 findings, ready to paste

02Performance: phone, desktop, and real visitors

MetricMobileDesktopRead
TTFB (lab median)171 ms172 msLab
FCP (lab median)352 ms366 msLab
LCP (lab median)388 ms366 msGood
Page weight (median)2.5 MB2.7 MBWatch
Real LCP (p75, url)1.8 sGood
Real INP (p75)263 msNeeds work
Real CLS (p75)0.00Good

Google Lighthouse (lab): Performance 66 mobile / 87 desktop, SEO 85, Accessibility 83, Best Practices 81.

Lab numbers are from a headless mobile browser on an unthrottled connection: treat them as a floor, not a typical experience.

03Tiny buttons are hard to tap on mobile

60 of 127 tappable items on this page come in below 44×44 pixels, the size Apple and Google both recommend for reliable tapping on a phone.

When customers can't tap what they expect to, they get frustrated and many of them leave. They don't file a bug. They don't try again. They just leave. A desktop dashboard can't see this because it's the difference between a thumb and a cursor.

The buttons measuring below the minimum on this scan:

  • a 89x16 "Cookie Notice"
  • a 101x16 "Lexis Star Show"
  • a 65x16 "Pillow Talk"
  • a 74x16 "Pornhub TV"
  • a 344x22 "Get Ready with me : Asa Akir"
  • a 82x16 "Holly Randall"
  • a 53x16 "Pornhub"
  • a 344x22 "Amateur Couple’s First Time "

The fix is CSS-only on most sites: add padding around the icon (don't just change the icon size) so the actual tap area is at least 44×44 pixels. No redesign, no new assets.

04Technical SEO & structured data

CheckResult
TitleFree Porn Videos & Sex Movies - Porno, XXX, Porn Tube | Pornhub (63 chars)
Meta description157 chars
H10 on page
CanonicalPresent
Structured data (JSON-LD)Organization
Open GraphIncomplete

05The fix checklist

Everything to fix, priority first, each tagged with the screen it affects and a rough effort. Work top to bottom.

  1. A floating widget is covering a clickable elementBothCSS only
  2. Tiny buttons are hard to tap on mobileMobileCSS only
  3. Page is heavy and slow on mobile dataBothSmall
  4. Unused JavaScript is being downloadedBothVaries
  5. Unused CSS is being downloadedBothVaries
  6. 2 form fields have no labelBothVaries
  7. No email capture or newsletter detectedBothVaries
  8. Some links cannot be followed by GoogleBothVaries
  9. Add quotations so AI engines cite this pageBothVaries
  10. No advertising pixel detectedBothDev afternoon
  11. Google Analytics tracking brokenBothDev afternoon
  12. The page has no main headingBothVaries
  13. 1 input uses the wrong type attributeBothVaries
  14. Click activity may be invisible inside the Facebook in-app browserBothVaries
  15. No XML sitemap foundBothVaries
  16. Links to this page will look bare when sharedBoth1 line
  17. Some buttons have no accessible nameBothVaries
  18. 21 interactive elements have no stable, accessible identityBothDev afternoon
  19. Security headers are missing or weakBothVaries

Effort is a rough read from the outside: "CSS only" means no new assets or backend work, "1 line" means a single tag, "Dev afternoon" means a developer needs to touch tracking or scripts.

06What this report cannot tell you

Everything above is from the outside, looking at the page on a simulated phone and desktop. The questions that actually decide revenue need real visitors. Install the Harvv pixel (one script tag, 16 KB, zero personal data, no engineering project) and within about 72 hours you'd know which buttons real customers tapped and missed, how often Google Analytics is missing visits, and exactly where mobile shoppers stalled and left. This report shows you where to look. The pixel shows you how often it happens, and to whom.

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07How we did this, and what it can't prove

  • 4 mobile + 2 desktop loads of one URL from headless Chrome (iPhone viewport at 390px, desktop at 1366px), August 17, 2026. Enough loads to separate real defects from random noise, not a full-site crawl.
  • Lab numbers, not real-user numbers, except the CrUX rows, which are real Chrome users. Real devices on real networks run slower.
  • Friction is inferred, not counted. We can prove a button is small. We can't, from the outside, count how often it causes a missed tap. That requires the pixel on a live page.
  • This page rotates its content load to load, which is on its own a reason a single-shot scan can't be the last word on it.

About Harvv, the source of this teardown

Harvv is a behavioral UX analytics platform (harvv.com). A lightweight JavaScript pixel captures how real visitors behave on a site (dead clicks, rage clicks, scroll depth, Core Web Vitals, JavaScript errors, and 50+ other signals) and the engine turns them into prioritized, plain-English findings. This teardown is the outside-in version of that: the same detectors run against a public page, with no pixel installed.

How to read it. Every finding here is a reproducible, automated measurement, not an opinion: element sizes, contrast ratios, load metrics, and structured-data checks that anyone can re-run against the same URL. The method is stated in full above. Automated testing catches a subset of issues, so this is a starting point, not a certification.

Full disclosure. Harvv makes the pixel that would measure the friction these findings imply, so we have a commercial interest. That is exactly why the findings are kept to things a reader can verify independently, and why nothing here is inflated: an unreproducible claim would undermine the tool it is meant to demonstrate.

Prepared by Harvv (harvv.com), a behavioral UX analytics platform. Last updated August 17, 2026.

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