Tierce Restricted-Content Share Calculator
For mixed-content platforms, creator sites and fan platforms with an adult section

30% by items, 38% by minutes. Which one is the law?

Tierce counts a mixed site’s catalogue every way “content” could be read — items, minutes of video, pages, bytes — plus Kansas’s page views, compares each measure to each of the 27 states’ lines, and says for every state whether the law reaches the site, is close, or is under the line, and which measure decided it. The answer is kept, dated, for the file.

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The problem

About one-third, written six different ways.

Most state age-verification laws for adult sites apply once a set share of content is harmful to minors — about a third. Kansas uses 25% of webpages viewed. Ohio, South Dakota and Wyoming have no minimum at all. Nobody knows whether “content” means items, minutes, pages or bytes, so a mixed site cannot answer the question with one number.

About 1/3

of content: the share at which most state laws apply.

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25%

Kansas’s line, measured on webpages viewed.

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No minimum

in Ohio, South Dakota and Wyoming: the law reaches any share at all.

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Will not keep an answer worked from a half-counted catalogue.

Keep this result refuses while the catalogue is incomplete or Kansas has no page views. A kept result is frozen with its date, its shares and the catalogue it was worked from. Missouri is treated as no minimum, the careful reading, and a state reached by any measure is marked reached.

How it works

Catalogue, page views, by state

Count the catalogue

Every category, restricted or not, in items, minutes, pages and bytes, and whether the site is branded primarily adult.

Add the page views

The busiest month’s page views and restricted page views, for Kansas.

Read every state

Reached, close, under the line, or needs page views — and which measure decided it. Keep the result, dated.

What it will never do

It counts every way. It does not pick the meaning.

What “content” means is likely to be decided by a court. Tierce shows every reading side by side.

No site crawl.You count the catalogue; nothing is fetched.
Dated thresholds.The state lines are the Free Speech Coalition’s table, dated in the program.
It is not a lawyer.Not legal advice. Take the dated result to yours.
It never touches a payment.The licence is for software.

Pricing

One-off

One careful afternoon’s answer, printed and dated, re-run whenever the catalogue changes.

Most sites

One site

$49 one-off

One mixed-content site or platform.

  • Every measure counted
  • All 27 states compared
  • Dated results kept

Three sites

$99 one-off

A network of sites.

  • Everything in One site
  • A catalogue per site
  • Export for your lawyer

One-time payment. Your bank statement says Tierce Software. Refunded in full on request within 30 days. Your licence key is emailed to you within two working days of payment.

Checkout is our own bitcoin server, not a card processor — nobody we had to apply to and nobody who can close the account. The button takes you straight to it. Give your email address there — that is where your key is sent.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

Which measure is right?

Nobody knows yet. Tierce counts items, minutes, pages and bytes, and marks a state reached if any of them is over its line.

What about Kansas?

Kansas uses 25% of webpages viewed in any calendar month. Tierce asks for the busiest month’s page views.

Why treat Missouri as no minimum?

The Free Speech Coalition’s notes say no minimum though its table shows 33%. Tierce takes the careful reading.

Is this legal advice?

No. It is the dated answer you take to a lawyer.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, emailed to the address you give at checkout within two working days. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.

Open the demo and see the readings disagree

The invented creator site is 30% restricted by items, 38% by minutes, 22% by pages, 41% by bytes and 27% of page views. Tierce shows every state the law reaches on any of them.

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