Wikipedia:Google statistics

This page is part of the Statistics family of pages. It records data about the frequency and prominence with which Wikipedia appears in search engines. Please see Modelling Wikipedia's growth for speculation on the trends in these statistics.

Google PageRank for en.wikipedia.org
Google PageRank of the main English Wikipedia homepage: 22 October 2002, 41/100(www.wikipedia.org) 3 November 2002, 7/10 1 December 2002, 8/10 10 January 2003, 8/10 15 March 2003,   7/10 (perhaps Google's algorithm was changed?) 12 April 2003,   7/10 30 May 2003,     7/10 2 October 2003, 8/10 7 November 2003, 8/10 30 January 2004, 8/10 22 October 2004, 8/10 24 December 2004, 8/10 2 July 2005,    9/10 (en.wikipedia.org) 14 July 2005,    8/10 (major pagerank shift across many websites) 24 July 2005,    8/10 19 August 2005,  8/10 20 October 2005, 9/10 (en.wikipedia.org) 28 October 2005, 8/10 29 December 2005, 9/10 (en.wikipedia.org)

Note: higher is better.

Search used (enter "en.wikipedia.org")

Google News stories mentioning Wikipedia


News stories per month appearing on Google News that mention Wikipedia or contain links to Wikipedia. These may either be press coverage about Wikipedia or use of Wikipedia as a press source (search used)  June 2003,       2 July 2003,       4 August 2003,     4 September 2003,  8 October 2003,   51 (including one story in 46 copies) November 2003,   7 December 2003,   6 January 2004,   15 February 2004,  15 March 2004,     32 April 2004,     42 May 2004,       41 June 2004,      42 July 2004,      79 August 2004,    474849 September 2004, 209 (including 148 after the 20 september press release) October 2004,   91 November 2004,  98 January 2005,  177847 February 2005, 19955 March 2005,    218 April 2005,    349 (hits for "wikinews": 15) May 2005,      161 ("wikinews": 4) June 2005,     45887 ("wikinews": 19) July 2005,     567 ("wikinews": 38) August 2005,   541 ("wikinews": 19) September 2005, 493 ("wikinews": 15) October 2005,  685 ("wikinews": 10) November 2005, 497 ("wikinews": 21)

Google Answers using Wikipedia
Google Answers - answers per month that included Wikipedia references (search used):  April 2002,     1 July 2002,      5 August 2002,    2 September 2002, 4 October 2002,  11 November 2002,  7 December 2002, 10 January 2003,   0 February 2003,  1 March 2003,    12 April 2003,    10 May 2003,       8 June 2003,     10 July 2003,     17 August 2003,   10 September 2003, 13 October 2003,   7 November 2003, 19 December 2003, 21 January 2004,  20 February 2004, 23 March 2004,    20 April 2004,    21 May 2004,      27 June 2004,     28 July 2004,     24 August 2004,   19 September 2004, 31 October 2004,  24 November 2004, 46 December 2004, 36 January 2005,  41 February 2005, 30 March 2005,    25 April 2005,    42 May 2005,      36 June 2005,     43 July 2005,     65 August 2005,   73 September 2005, 62 October 2005,  81

Number of Wikipedia pages indexed by Google
This is the number of Wikipedia pages in Google's index. There is some AutoIt code at the bottom that will scrape the number of results from each datacenter at Google, but lately the easiest route has been just been grabbing the numbers from the CSV file that WikiPulse generates. You can also do a Google search for site:wikipedia.org. An amazing and steady increase.

Wikipedia derives 66% of traffic from search engine referrals, and 50% of that traffic comes from Google, meaning 33% of all Wikipedia traffic is from Google referrals alone (according to Hitwise - therefore these stats apply to U.S. traffic only, and that is only around a quarter of total traffic).

2005 21 March 2005,      2,710,000 21 March 2005,      4,170,000 22 March 2005,      4,550,000 22 March 2005,      5,170,000 23 March 2005,      5,440,000 23 March 2005,      6,490,000 23 March 2005,      7,340,000 24 March 2005,      7,350,000 26 March 2005,      7,470,000 26 March 2005,      7,530,000 8 April 2005,      9,030,000 9 April 2005,      9,350,000 10 April 2005,      9,730,000 10 April 2005,      9,850,000 11 April 2005,     10,100,000 15 April 2005,     11,300,000 17 April 2005,     11,800,000 17 April 2005,     11,900,000 18 April 2005,     12,100,000 24 June 2005,      13,700,000 25 June 2005,      14,500,000 25 June 2005,      15,300,000 27 June 2005,      16,700,000 29 June 2005,      17,800,000 30 June 2005,      19,200,000 1 July 2005,      20,000,000 4 July 2005,      21,800,000 6 July 2005,      22,900,000 6 July 2005,      24,300,000 9 July 2005,      25,500,000 11 July 2005,      26,100,000 2 August 2005,    27,900,000 5 August 2005,    30,900,000 7 August 2005,    31,500,000 14 August 2005,    36,000,000 21 August 2005,    41,200,000 20 September 2005, 92,200,000 24 September 2005, 118,000,000 27 September 2005, 158,000,000 01 October 2005,  307,000,000 04 October 2005,  349,000,000 30 January 2006,  171,000,000  (Google has done a bit of database trimming?) You can get a more accurate number by polling each Google datacenter individually. The following basic AutoIt 3 code will paste the results to your clipboard.
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Global $results

$DCs = StringSplit ('64.233.161.99, 64.233.161.104, 64.233.161.105, 64.233.161.147, 64.233.167.99,                   64.233.167.104, 64.233.167.147, 64.233.171.99, 64.233.171.104, 64.233.171.105,                    64.233.171.147, 64.233.179.99, 64.233.179.99, 64.233.183.99, 64.233.183.104,                    64.233.185.99, 64.233.185.104, 64.233.187.99, 64.233.187.104, 64.233.189.104,                    66.102.7.104, 66.102.7.105, 66.102.7.147, 66.102.9.104, 66.102.11.104,                    216.239.37.104, 216.239.37.105, 216.239.37.147, 216.239.39.104, 216.239.53.104,                    216.239.57.98, 216.239.57.104, 216.239.57.105, 216.239.57.147, 216.239.59.104,                    216.239.59.105, 216.239.63.104', ',')

For $loop = 1 to $DCs[0] Global $pagesingoogle = _ScreenScrape ('http://' & $DCs[$loop] &               '/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awikipedia.org&btnG=Google+Search', 't ', ' f')

$results = $results & @CRLF & $DCs[$loop] & ' : ' & $pagesingoogle Next

ClipPut($results)

You will also need this _ScreenScrape function in your AutoIt include directory.

Google Trends search statistics
Google Trends provide information on how many searches are made for Wikipedia. This information is placed alongside news searches for Wikipedia.



A visit to the site will also provide comparative data for other searches and information on which regions and which languages the searches were made from.

Mentions of Wikipedia on websites outside Wikipedia
This estimates the number of mentions of Wikipedia on websites outside Wikipedia itself using a Google search. This is the search used:  2 October 2003,     311k 3 November 2003,    176k 6 December 2003,  1,370k 1 January 2004,   1,260k 1 February 2004,  1,120k 28 February 2004,  2,180k 5 April 2004,     1,790k 30 April 2004,     1,980k 20 May 2004,       2,250k 2 July 2004,      1,900k 19 July 2004,      2,630k 1 August 2004,    3,230k 13 August 2004,    3,920k 23 August 2004,    4,030k 1 September 2004, 4,100k 28 September 2004, 4,480k 18 January 2005,   5,140k 1 February 2005,  4,890k 13 February 2005,  6,660k 20 February 2005,  9,800k 1 March 2005,    10,200k 27 March 2005,     6,630k 30 March 2005,    10,600k 06 May 2005,      10,200k 13 June 2005,     11,100k 5 July 2005,     13,000k 7 September 2005, 35,800k 20 September 2005, 31,600k 11 October 2005,  34,400k 21 October 2005,  41,500k 28 October 2005,  36,800k 6 November 2005, 44,500k 7 January 2006,  45,100k