According to the official artnet Top 300, Banksy, the beloved anonymous British street artist, has received the most page visits of any artist listing on the site for six months in a row.

This hardly surprising, given his popularity and ability to generate headlines over the smallest incidents.

Japanese artist Nobuyoshi Araki unseated Andy Warhol for the number two slot in September. Araki, who was recently featured in a controversial faux-massage parlor gallery installation in New York, is just one of several unexpected names in the top ten artists searched, which also includes Joel-Peter Witkin (seventh) and Jock Sturges (eighth).

Nobuyoshi Araki, Bondage series (2008).
Photo: artnet.

What do those artists have in common?  Here’s a hint: according to a 2012 study, 30 percent of all internet traffic comes from pornography.

Araki, Witkin, and Sturges, and even the better-known Helmut Netwon and Francesca Woodman (ranked sixth and tenth) are all photographers who often feature nudes in their work. In other words, they may be getting a boost from the scintillating nature of their imagery, rather than their market prowess.

Tracking the search habits of those searching for collecting, rather than recreational purposes, would likely paint a different picture. Indeed, when we limited the results to searches in the artnet Price Database (PDB), Araki and Newton dropped out the top ten entirely. So did Banksy, his celebrity edge effectively erased. Instead, more traditional blue chip artists get the most attention. (For 2014, Warhol, followed by Banksy, topped searches across all of artnet.)

Pablo Picasso, number four on the Top 300, snags the top spot among PDB searches, followed by Warhol and Joan Miró. Roy Lichtenstein, however, ranks high on both lists (fifth overall, and fourth on the PBD), while Damien Hirst and Salvador Dalí, barely outside the top 10 overall at 11th and 12th, respectively, are ranked ninth and tenth according to PDB results.

The fifth through eighth place PDB spots—Marc Chagall, Alexander Calder, Gerhard Richter, and Lucio Fontana—all rank much lower among overall searches, clocking in at 19th, 32nd, 21st, and 86th, respectively.

Another difference is that the PDB searches also seem more steady over time: though the order has shifted slightly, the names on the top ten list have remained constant since April. No less than 21 artist have appeared in the Top 300’s top ten over the last six months, including Sally Mann, who has dropped from 10th in June to 35 in September.

Here are the artists on the artnet Top 300:

1. Banksy
2. Nobuyoshi Araki
3. Andy Warhol
4. Pablo Picasso
5. Roy Lichtenstein
6. Helmut Newton
7. Joel-Peter Witkin
8. Jock Sturges
9. Keith Haring
10. Francesca Woodman
11. Damien Hirst
12. Salvador Dalí
13. Jean-Michel Basquiat
14. Fernando Botero
15. Victor Vasarely
16. Michael Dweck
17. Wayne Thiebaud
18. Nan Goldin
19. Marc Chagall
20. Joan Miró
21. Gerhard Richter
22. Andreas Gursky
23. Shepard Fairey
24. Sebastião Salgado
25. Takashi Murakami
26. Jim Dine
27. Frank Stella
28. David Hockney
29. Diane Arbus
30. Alex Katz
31. Yayoi Kusama
32. Alexander Calder
33. Robert Mapplethorpe
34. Jeff Koons
35. Sally Mann
36. Alec Monopoly
37. Liu Bolin
38. Tom Wesselmann
39. Thomas Ruff
40. Robert Rauschenberg
41. Mr. Brainwash
42. Wolfgang Tillmans
43. Tahia Halim
44. Jean Dubuffet
45. Yoshitomo Nara
46. Ed Ruscha
47. Gregory Crewdson
48. Andy Goldsworthy
49. KAWS
50. Nick Brandt
51. Henri Matisse
52. Francis Bacon
53. Peter Doig
54. Cy Twombly
55. Sol LeWitt
56. Chuck Close
57. Maurice Utrillo
58. Pierre Soulages
59. Candida Höfer
60. Cindy Sherman
61. Anish Kapoor
62. Raoul Dufy
63. Robert Longo
64. Anselm Kiefer
65. Vik Muniz
66. Emil Nolde
67. Niki de Saint Phalle
68. Georg Baselitz
69. Niclas Castello
70. Margaret Keane
71. Friedensreich Hundertwasser
72. Garry Gross
73. John Baldessari
74. William Kentridge
75. Bridget Riley
76. Tony Cragg
77. Günther Uecker
78. David Hamilton
79. Harland Miller
80. Sigmar Polke
81. Julian Opie
82. Tracey Emin
83. David LaChapelle
84. Sam Francis
85. Daniel Richter
86. Lucio Fontana
87. Helen Frankenthaler
88. Fernand Léger
89. Bert Stern
90. Josef Albers
91. Karel Appel
92. Man Ray
93. Antoni Tàpies
94. Grayson Perry
95. Wolf Kahn
96. Robert Motherwell
97. Jasper Johns
98. Herb Ritts
99. Louise Bourgeois
100. Markus Lüpertz
101. Peter Max
102. Robert Indiana
103. Vernon Ward
104. Christian Boltanski
105. Hans Zatzka
106. Ai Weiwei
107. Egon Schiele
108. Ellsworth Kelly
109. Thomas Struth
110. George Condo
111. Heinz Mack
112. Walton Ford
113. Henri Cartier-Bresson
114. José Parlá
115. Käthe Kollwitz
116. Christopher Wool
117. Kees van Dongen
118. Imi Knoebel
119. Mel Ramos
120. Hiroshi Sugimoto
121. Rufino Tamayo
122. Richard Prince
123. Raymond Pettibon
124. Vivian Maier
125. Swoon
126. Irving Penn
127. Maurice de Vlaminck
128. Ushio Shinohara
129. Massimo Vitali
130. Wassily Kandinsky
131. Dennis Sheehan
132. Marina Abramovic
133. RETNA
134. Yves Klein
135. Marie Laurencin
136. Paul Klee
137. Arman
138. Julie Mehretu
139. Jean Paul Riopelle
140. Janet Fish
141. Will McBride
142. James Rizzi
143. Kiki Smith
144. William Eggleston
145. Joseph Beuys
146. Jackson Pollock
147. Mike Kelley
148. Agnes Martin
149. Barbara Kruger
150. David Lynch
151. Piet Mondrian
152. Grandma Moses
153. Harding Meyer
154. Richard Serra
155. Otto Dix
156. Stephan Balkenhol
157. René Magritte
158. Jenny Holzer
159. Bahman Mohasses
160. Pierre Molinier
161. Kehinde Wiley
162. Joan Mitchell
163. Igor Mitoraj
164. Louise Nevelson
165. Georges Braque
166. Willem de Kooning
167. Max Ernst
168. Hans Erni
169. Julian Schnabel
170. Sean Scully
171. Hans Hartung
172. A.R. Penck
173. Yue Minjun
174. George Grosz
175. Lyonel Feininger
176. Saul Leiter
177. Richard Estes
178. Zao Wou-Ki
179. Brett Whiteley
180. Neo Rauch
181. Alberto Giacometti
182. Royal Dux
183. Günther Förg
184. Andrew Wyeth
185. Lucien Clergue
186. Slim Aarons
187. Lucian Freud
188. Anton Pieck
189. Kazuo Shiraga
190. Lee Ufan
191. Wifredo Lam
192. James Rosenquist
193. Jane Peterson
194. Milo Manara
195. Jesús Rafael Soto
196. Milton Avery
197. Bettina Rheims
198. Albert Marquet
199. Martin Parr
200. Marilyn Minter
201. Montague Dawson
202. Jaume Plensa
203. Riusuke Fukahori
204. Anton Corbijn
205. Christo and Jeanne-Claude
206. Amedeo Modigliani
207. Russell Young
208. Richard Diebenkorn
209. Deborah Butterfield
210. Jean Prouvé
211. Gustav Klimt
212. Itzchak Tarkay
213. Ernesto Neto
214. Paul Signac
215. Frank Gehry
216. Thomas Hart Benton
217. Manolo Valdés
218. Irina Ionesco
219. Marc Quinn
220. Mu Boyan
221. Elger Esser
222. Roberto Fabelo
223. Jonathan Meese
224. Elizabeth Catlett
225. Claude Monet
226. Per Kirkeby
227. Nam June Paik
228. JonOne
229. Hieronymus Bosch
230. Axel Hütte
231. Le Corbusier
232. Franz West
233. Mel Bochner
234. Andres Serrano
235. Chris Ofili
236. Ben Shahn
237. Pierre Bonnard
238. Annie Leibovitz
239. Charlotte Perriand
240. William Klein
241. Erwin Olaf
242. Donald Sultan
243. Eduardo Chillida
244. Donald Baechler
245. Bernar Venet
246. Nicole Eisenman
247. Romero Britto
248. Beatriz Milhazes
249. Shirin Neshat
250. Walasse Ting
251. Donald Judd
252. Adrian Ghenie
253. Richard Misrach
254. Rainer Fetting
255. Patrick Hughes
256. Duane Michals
257. Sean Henry
258. Elizabeth Peyton
259. Romare Bearden
260. Cecilia Paredes
261. Oscar Murillo
262. Charles Fazzino
263. Emmanuel Villanis
264. Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova
265. Marcel Dyf
266. Franz Kline
267. Bernard Dufour
268. Erwin Wurm
269. Jacques Adnet
270. Edward Burtynsky
271. Rembrandt van Rijn
272. Invader
273. Arnulf Rainer
274. Otto Piene
275. Peter Tunney
276. Séraphine de Senlis
277. Roberto Matta
278. Marlene Dumas
279. Alphonse Mucha
280. M. C. Escher
281. Georges Rouault
282. Bernd Zimmer
283. Jenny Saville
284. Aristide Maillol
285. Ettore Sottsass
286. Martin Kippenberger
287. John Chamberlain
288. Claes Oldenburg
289. William Wegman
290. Mark Rothko
291. Georgia Russell
292. Mimmo Paladino
293. Antony Gormley
294. Andre de Dienes
295. Adolph Gottlieb
296. Erich Heckel
297. Miquel Barceló
298. Bill Henson
299. LeRoy Neiman
300. James Turrell