A low DMCA removal rate doesn't mean a site is legit: 83% of its reported URLs were not in Google's index
Raynim Research · Note · · 8 min read
Google's copyright report gives four outcomes for every URL in a takedown request: removed, not in index, no action taken, pending. Read one of them wrong and the biggest leak sites in the record look like the most harmless.
Key findings
myxxgirl.comaffects 20,090 creators and shows a 16.3% removal rate, because 83.2% of the 17.4 million URLs filed against it were not in Google's index.- Google actually declined ("no action") on 0.5% of those URLs.
- Across the 4,061 confirmed leak sites the median removal rate is 77.1%, and the bottom tenth sits at 30.2% or lower.
onlyfans.com, the platform creators are paid on, shows a 42.5% removal rate: a naive statistical rule flags it as a leak site.- In 2025 Google removed 98.8% of the URLs it made a decision on. The headline 84.6% figure counts URLs it did not have.
The four outcomes
What do "removed", "not in index", "no action" and "pending" mean?
Every request in Google's transparency export carries four counts. Google's own description of the export defines them as the URLs removed, the URLs "not present in Google's Search Index", the URLs "not removed", and the URLs "still pending review".
In plain words:
| Outcome | What happened |
|---|---|
| Removed | Google delisted the URL from Web Search. |
| Not in index | The URL was not in Google's index when the request was reviewed, so there was nothing to delist. Google either had not indexed the page or had already dropped it. The export does not say which. The page may still exist on the site. |
| No action | Google reviewed the URL and declined. Incomplete notices, disputed ownership and counter-claims land here. |
| Pending | Not yet reviewed when the export was cut. |
Definitions paraphrased from Google's own description of the export.
The "removal rate" people quote is removed ÷ everything submitted. That denominator includes "not in index", and that is where the trap lives.
Trap
Why does the biggest leak site in the record look almost clean?
myxxgirl.com is on the confirmed list with 20,090 affected creators. Agencies have filed 17,427,778 URLs against it, and Google removed 2,843,060 of them, a rate of 16.3%.
On a ranking by removal rate it sits among the least harmful sites in the record. Break the same 17.4 million URLs into the four outcomes and the picture inverts.
| Domain | Creators | URLs submitted | Removed | Not in index | No action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
myxxgirl.com |
20,090 | 17,427,778 | 16.3% | 83.2% | 0.5% |
sexiezpix.com |
17,022 | 9,086,596 | 19.9% | 79.6% | 0.5% |
fapeza.com |
24,557 | 24,907,306 | 43.3% | 51.9% | 4.9% |
fapello-leaks.com |
18,422 | 1,635,187 | 44.7% | 53.3% | 1.9% |
erothots.co |
26,646 | 5,745,561 | 52.4% | 46.8% | 0.7% |
fapello.com |
29,366 | 31,278,713 | 75.2% | 21.6% | 3.1% |
Six of the forty confirmed leak sites with the most creators affected. Percentages are shares of every URL creator agencies filed against the domain.
Google refused to act on 81,043 of the myxxgirl.com URLs, which is 0.5%. The other 14,492,563 were not in the index when Google looked.
The agencies' crawlers found pages on the site that Google either had not indexed or had already dropped, and filed them anyway. The low rate measures how far the filers ran ahead of Google's index. It says nothing about what the site hosts.
The same shape holds at the bottom of the ranking. Six examples from the confirmed sites with the lowest removal rates among those affecting 5,000 or more creators:
| Domain | Creators | URLs submitted | Removed | Removal rate | No action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
imagexport.com |
5,962 | 2,522,853 | 11,707 | 0.46% | 80,821 |
camwhorescloud.tv |
6,253 | 540,635 | 25,655 | 4.75% | 2,534 |
heavy-r.com |
6,313 | 327,421 | 24,212 | 7.39% | 447 |
topfapgirlspics.com |
9,159 | 7,038,563 | 662,600 | 9.41% | 15,714 |
simpcity.tv |
7,942 | 398,551 | 43,825 | 11.0% | 2,293 |
coomer.st |
6,744 | 902,304 | 141,707 | 15.7% | 16,295 |
Six examples, not a continuous ranking: confirmed leak sites affecting at least 5,000 creators, chosen from the lowest removal rates.
heavy-r.com has a 7.39% removal rate and 447 declined URLs out of 327,421. Google said no to 0.1% of what it was asked. Everything else that was not removed was simply not there to remove.
The mirror image
Why does OnlyFans look like a leak site?
Because creators file against re-uploads hosted on the platform itself, and Google removes some of them. Across every reporter in the record, 2,902 URLs on onlyfans.com have been submitted and 1,234 removed, a rate of 42.5%.
Through creator agencies alone the rate is 54.1%. manyvids.com sits at 37.7%.
Those rates are higher than fapeza.com, erothots.co and every site in the table above. A rule that ranks domains by removal rate flags the one platform creators are paid on, and clears the sites that hold the most stolen content.
Which platforms are legitimate is a judgement a person has to make. No rule built on the rate can make it.
Platform rates count every reporter in the record, not only creator agencies.
Scale
What is a normal removal rate for a leak site?
Higher than the trap cases suggest. Across the 4,061 confirmed leak sites, the median removal rate is 77.1%. The tenth percentile is 30.2% and the ninetieth is 95.6%.
In total, agencies have filed 968,618,713 URLs against confirmed sites and Google has removed 610,652,771 of them, a rate of 63.0%. Google declined 36,109,251, which is 3.7% of what was filed.
The whole record tells the same story in one year. Of everything submitted to Google in 2025, 84.6% was removed. Of the URLs Google actually decided on, removed plus no action, 98.8% was removed.
The gap is the "not in index" column, which Google only began reporting on 2017-09-01. How that column reshaped fifteen years of takedown statistics is the subject of What Google actually removes, the next post in this series.
Verdict
What is a removal rate good for?
For judging how well takedowns work against a site, and for nothing else. A site where Google removes 95% of what is filed is a site where notices work.
A site where Google removes 16% because 83% was not in its index is not a cleaner site. It is a site whose pages Google had not yet seen when the agency's crawler did.
The creator's exposure is the same either way. The measures that do describe how bad a site is are how many independent agencies have filed against it, how many creators it affects, and how recently it was reported. The confirmed list, described in Where stolen OnlyFans content actually lives, is built on those three and never on the rate.
Data & method
- Source. Google's Web Search copyright removal export, cut on 2026-05-04: 46,891,226 requests and 855,087,358 request-domain rows, loaded into DuckDB without dropping a row.
- Outcome split. For each confirmed domain, the sums of the removed, not-in-index, no-action and pending columns across every request filed by a creator-protection agency. Percentages are of URLs submitted, defined as the sum of all four columns.
- Lowest-rate table. Confirmed domains with at least 5,000 distinct affected creators, ordered by removal rate.
- Platform rates. The
onlyfans.comandmanyvids.comfigures cover every reporter in the record. The creator-agency figure foronlyfans.comcovers the 2,077 agency IDs used to build the lists. - Confirmed list. 4,061 domains with at least 5 independent reporting brands, at least 200 creators and at least 5,000 removed URLs, active since 2024, not a dual-use platform. The list and its rules are published.
- Figures. The chart is drawn by a script from the query output, never by hand. The numbers in the chart and the tables are the same numbers.
Corrections
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FAQ
What does "no action taken" mean in a Google DMCA report? Google reviewed the URL and declined to delist it. Across the 4,061 confirmed leak sites it is rare: 36,109,251 URLs out of 968,618,713 filed, or 3.7%. Common causes are incomplete notices, unverified ownership and counter-claims.
What does "URLs not in Google's index" mean?
The page was not in Google's index when the request was reviewed, so there was nothing to delist. Google either had not indexed it or had already dropped it. The page may still be live on the site. On myxxgirl.com, 83.2% of 17.4 million filed URLs fell into this category.
Why is Google not removing my DMCA request? Check which column the URLs landed in. "Not in index" means the page was not in Google's index at review time, whether never crawled or already dropped. "Pending" means the backlog, which reached 31.5 million URLs in 2024. "No action" is a real refusal, usually fixable by completing the notice.
What does "pending review" mean in Google's DMCA report? The URL had not been reviewed when the export was cut. The backlog is real: 31.5 million URLs were pending across 2024. A pending URL is neither removed nor refused, and it usually resolves into one of the other columns in the next export.
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