Wikipedia:Most read articles in 2009

This essay, "Most-read articles in 2009" (or Most-viewed articles in 2009), is an averaged ranking, based on various Wikipedia article traffic statistics (revised 13 March 2010), gathered informally all during 2009. Listed, in separate groups, are: the Top 1000 articles (below), then many of the top 10,000 articles, followed by scattered counts for other, various, popular articles (ranked by monthly interest below 20,000 pageviews per month).

The top 1000 articles focused on major events, for the year, with "Michael Jackson" ( # 11), plus his family, albums, swine flu, and many celebrities or films ranking very high. The word "wiki" ( # 8) is still viewed by millions, along with YouTube ( # 13), Facebook, and "Wikipedia" all higher than "Sex" ( # 24). Many blog websites, celebrities, and sexual words ranked above 500. The rank of "The Beatles" (initially Moving into the Top 1000, this year, were: Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, Holocaust, God, Religion, Socialism, Democracy, Communism, Anne Boleyn, Hellen Keller, Plato, Meryl Streep, Demi Moore, Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Taylor, Jesse James, Keanu Reeves, Usher, Justin Bieber & others.
 * 1) 9) fell to 57th on December 12, when daily page-views dropped from over 100,000 to 21,200 per day.

The Top 1000 average over 5600 pageviews/day, but any low month, below 1500 per day, would drop an article's average by over 350 per day. Even in December, a low-interest article can skyrocket into the Top 1000 if a major news event causes reader-interest to exceed 1.9 million pageviews within a month (5600 pageviews/day totals 2,044,000 per year). Basically, the Top 1000 each get over 2 million views during the year, but might not be popular by year's end. For example, some topics related to "Twilight (2008 film)" had only moderate pageviews by November 2009.

However, many traditional topics were still high-ranking among the top 2,500 topics: Socrates # 1325, Plato # 830, and Aristotle # 683, with Physics # 1386.

Top 1000 articles
The following were the top 1000 in 2009 (revised 31Jan10 for rank, daily page-views & name). The data contains some errors, and many are approximate page-views (marked by tilde "~"), rather than the page-views averaged for the entire year. Also, some duplicates (such as "Watchmen" and "Watchmen (film)") repeat entries for similar names. Wikipedia pages (such as "Special:Search" & "Main Page") are also listed, so this is not a clean list, nor was it extensively analyzed. It's just 1000 high-count articles, as a rough-guess at popularity, and some popular articles might have been omitted. Each entry shows the daily page-views & percent:


 * 16,661,590 [8.49%]: Special:Search (+ 130,658 subpage hits per day)
 * 5,666,000 [3.37%]: Main Page
 * 2,940,595 [1.50%]: Special:Random (+ 204 subpage hits per day)
 * 1) 639,014 [0.33%]: Special:Randompage  (+ 1 subpage hits per day)
 * 2) 478,999 [0.24%]: 404 error/  (missing /wiki/ – bot?)
 * 3) 225,900 [0.05%]: Search
 * 4) 193,658 [0.10%]: Special:Export  (+ 337,067 subpage hits per day)
 * 5) 123,540 [0.07%]: Wiki
 * 6) 113,380 [0.06%]: The Beatles (fell to #57 on 12 December 2009)
 * 7) 102,740 [0.06%]: Special:Watchlist  (+ 864 subpage hits per day)
 * 96,470 [0.05%]: Michael Jackson (+21,022 redirects/day in June)
 * 85,590 [0.05%]: Favicon.ico (incl. icon requests)
 * 70,260 [0.04%]: YouTube
 * 53,490 [0.03%]: Deaths in 2009 (+ 8,958 redirect hits/day in June)
 * 45,920 [0.03%]: Wikipedia
 * 45,780 [0.02%]: United States
 * 41,170 [0.02%]: Facebook
 * 38,500 [0.02%]: Barack Obama
 * 37,390 [0.02%]: Portal:Current events
 * 35,600 [0.02%]: Special:OAIRepository
 * 33,320 [0.02%]: Lil Wayne
 * 30,650 [0.01%]: Swine influenza
 * 30,005 [0.01%]: Eminem
 * 29,800 [0.01%]: Sex
 * 29,773 [0.02%]: Lady GaGa (or Lady gaga)
 * 28,523 [0.01%]: Miley Cyrus
 * 27,590 [0.02%]: Portal:Contents
 * 27,440 [0.01%]: Avatar or Avatar (2009 film)
 * 26,690 [0.01%]: World War II
 * 25,450 [0.02%]: Lost (TV series)
 * 25,400 [0.01%]: Megan Fox
 * 25,330 [0.01%]: Adolf Hitler
 * 24,780 [0.01%]: India
 * 24,760 [0.01%]: Taylor Swift
 * 24,670 [0.01%]: United Kingdom
 * 24,350 [0.01%]: 2012
 * 23,630 [0.01%]: Windows 7
 * 23,310 [0.01%]: Vagina
 * 23,170 [0.01%]: Harry Potter
 * 22,510 [0.02%]: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (+ 61,718 redirect hits/day in June)
 * 21,720 [0.01%]: True Blood
 * 21,500 [0.01%]: Twitter
 * 21,390 [0.01%]: Heroes (TV series)
 * 21,370 [0.01%]: Canada
 * 21,347 [0.01%]: List of House episodes
 * 21,250 [0.01%]: Naruto
 * 21,110 [0.02%]: Rihanna
 * 21,015 [0.01%]: Penis
 * 20,958 [0.01%]: Family Guy or Family guy
 * 20,780 [0.01%]: Scrubs (TV series)
 * 20,720 [0.01%]: Portal:Featured content
 * 20,690 [0.01%]: World War I
 * 20,590 [0.01%]: Google
 * 20,570 [0.01%]: List of sex positions
 * 20,540 [0.01%]: Sexual intercourse
 * 20,410 [0.01%]: Japan
 * 20,400 [0.01%]: Beyoncé Knowles or "Beyonce..."
 * 20,335 [0.01%]: Kristen Stewart
 * 20,270 [0.01%]: Australia
 * 20,080 [0.01%]: House (TV series)
 * 19,890 [0.01%]: Internet Movie Database
 * 19,670 [0.01%]: Script kiddie
 * 19,380 [0.01%]: Robert Pattinson
 * 19,360 [0.01%]: Watchmen
 * 19,260 [0.01%]: Masturbation
 * 19,180 [0.01%]: Human penis size
 * 19,030 [0.01%]: Selena Gomez
 * 18,960 [0.01%]: Jay-Z
 * 18,950 [0.01%]: The Jackson 5 or Jackson 5
 * 18,760 [0.01%]: New Moon (2009 film) or The Twilight Saga: New Moon
 * 18,470 [0.01%]: 2009 in film
 * 18,460 [0.01%]: About
 * 18,210 [0.01%]: Twilight (2008 film)
 * 18,150 [0.01%]: New York City
 * 18,110 [0.01%]: Global warming
 * 17,960 [0.01%]: Germany
 * 17,910 [0.01%]: Kanye West
 * 17,780 [0.01%]: Kim Kardashian
 * 17,520 [0.01%]: Transformers 2
 * 17,465 [0.01%]: Brittany Murphy
 * 17,175 [0.01%]: Special:RecentChanges (+ 18 subpage hits per day)
 * 17,020 [0.01%]: Britney Spears
 * 17,000 [0.01%]: How I Met Your Mother
 * 16,980 [0.01%]: Hannah Montana
 * 16,950 [0.01%]: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
 * 16,875 [0.01%]: Star Trek (film)
 * 16,860 [0.01%]: Anal sex
 * 16,720 [0.01%]: William Shakespeare
 * 16,690 [0.01%]: 50 Cent
 * 16,640 [0.01%]: Slumdog Millionaire
 * 16,600 [0.01%]: Tupac Shakur
 * 16,540 [0.01%]: Watchmen (film)
 * 15,990 [0.01%]: List of Family Guy episodes
 * 15,947 [0.01%]: Jonas Brothers
 * 15,920 [0.01%]: China
 * 15,910 [0.01%]: List of Presidents of the United States
 * 15,850 [0.01%]: Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * 15,716 [0.01%]: Bleach (manga)
 * 15,510 [0.01%]: France
 * 15,475 [0.01%]: Abraham Lincoln
 * 15,425 [0.01%]: Terminator Salvation (+ 6,877 redirect hits/day in June)
 * 15,313 [0.01%]: John F. Kennedy (13,920) or JFK
 * 15,180 [0.01%]: Russia
 * 15,100 [0.01%]: Vietnam War
 * 15,090 [0.01%]: Israel
 * 14,990 [0.01%]: Mariah Carey or Carrey
 * 14,900 [0.01%]: Henry VIII of England
 * 14,895 [0.01%]: Batman
 * 14,860 [0.01%]: America's Next Top Model
 * 14,840 [0.01%]: Johnny Depp
 * 14,550 [0.01%]: Metallica
 * 14,510 [0.01%]: Special:ExpandTemplates
 * 14,475 [0.01%]: List of Bleach episodes
 * 14,470 [0.01%]: MySpace
 * 14,420 [0.01%]: Taylor Lautner
 * 14,350 [0.01%]: South Park
 * 14,256 [0.01%]: Albert Einstein
 * 14,240 [0.01%]: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (or "Origins")
 * 14,150 [0.01%]: Philippines or Phillipines or Phillippines or Philipines
 * 14,132 [0.01%]: Angelina Jolie
 * 14,100 [0.01%]: Leonardo da Vinci
 * 13,930 [0.01%]: Demi Lovato
 * 13,911 [0.01%]: Pornography
 * 13,790 [0.01%]: Twilight (novel)
 * 13,732 [0.01%]: Michael Jordan
 * 13,690 [0.01%]: Brazil
 * 13,670 [0.01%]: Tiger Woods
 * 13,666 [0.01%]: John Lennon
 * 13,630 [0.01%]: Black Eyed Peas
 * 13,590 [0.01%]: Love
 * 13,550 [0.01%]: Glee (TV series)
 * 13,495 [0.01%]: American Idol
 * 13,490 [0.01%]: English language
 * 13,250 [0.01%]: Citation needed
 * 13,183 [0.01%]: London
 * 13,180 [0.01%]: Charles Manson
 * 13,160 [0.01%]: Mexico
 * 13,158 [0.01%]: Oral sex
 * 13,100 [0,01%]: Bruce Lee
 * 13,015 [0.02%]: 404 error (missing /wiki/ – bot?)
 * 13,010 [0.01%]: Hotmail
 * 13,000 [0.01%]: PlayStation 3
 * 12,990 [0.01%]: Dexter (TV series)
 * 12,990 [0.01%]: The Notorious B.I.G.
 * 12,950 [0.01%]: Italy
 * 12,930 [0.01%]: American Civil War
 * 12,880 [0.01%]: NCIS (TV series)
 * 12,859 [0.01%]: Bruce Springsteen
 * 12,810 [0.01%]: Will Smith
 * 12,750 [0.01%]: Farrah Fawcett (+ 3,052 redirect hits/day in June)
 * 12,700 [0.01%]: The Simpsons
 * 12,690 [0.01%]: Brad Pitt
 * 12,620 [0.01%]: The Dark Knight (film)
 * 12,605 [0.01%]: 2 Girls 1 Cup
 * 12,590 [0.01%]: Elvis Presley or "Presly"
 * 12,585 [0.01%]: Green Day
 * 12,505 [0.01%]: England
 * 12,495 [0.01%]: Orgasm
 * 12,490 [0.01%]: Inglourious Basterds
 * 12,460 [0.01%]: Spain
 * 12,440 [0.01%]: Bulgaria
 * 12,425 [0.01%]: Deadpool (comics)
 * 12,420 [0.01%]: Madonna (entertainer)
 * 12,380 [0.01%]: Seven deadly sins
 * 12,375 [0.01%]: List of Heroes episodes
 * 12,370 [0.01%]: Arnold Schwarzenegger
 * 12,230 [0.01%]: Grey's Anatomy
 * 12,170 [0.01%]: Xbox 360
 * 12,087 [0.01%]: Asperger syndrome
 * 12,070 [0.01%]: Europe
 * 12,035 [0.01%]: Katy Perry
 * 12,010 [0.01%]: Bill Gates
 * 11,980 [0.01%]: George W. Bush
 * 11,970 [0.01%]: Entourage (TV series)
 * 11,960 [0.01%]: Iran
 * 11,950 [0.01%]: Internet
 * 11,940 [0.01%]: Cristiano Ronaldo
 * 11,930 [0.01%]: District 9
 * 11,920 [0.01%]: Friends
 * 11,880 [0.01%]: T.I.
 * 11,850 [0.01%]: Relapse (album)
 * 11,840 [0.01%]: Standard deviation
 * 11,832 [0.01%]: Bipolar disorder
 * 11,830 [0.01%]: Billy Mays
 * 11,806 [0.01%]: Richard Nixon
 * 11,795 [0.01%]: Linkin Park
 * 11,765 [0.01%]: Spam
 * 11,690 [0.01%]: Manchester United F.C.
 * 11,670 [0.01%]: Egypt
 * 11,648 [0.01%]: Nikola Tesla
 * 11,560 [0.01%]: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
 * 11,550 [0.01%]: John Dillinger
 * 11,540 [0.02%]: Jade Goody
 * 11,463 [0.01%]: New Zealand
 * 11,462 [0.01%]: Ted Kennedy
 * 11,460 [0.01%]: Emma Watson
 * 11,440 [0.01%]: YouPorn
 * 11,360 [0.01%]: Pakistan
 * 11,320 [0.01%]: Che Guevara
 * 11,300 [0.01%]: South Africa
 * 11,280 [0.01%]: List of Twilight characters
 * 11,260 [0.01%]: Dwayne Johnson
 * 11,240 [0.01%]: Doctor Who or Dr Who
 * 11,219 [0.01%]: Charles Darwin
 * 11,210 [0.01%]: Turkey
 * 11,180 [0.01%]: North Korea
 * 11,175 [0.01%]: Netherlands
 * 11,170 [0.01%]: Wonders of the World
 * 11,145 [0.01%]: Friday the 13th ~
 * 11,141 [0.01%]: Twilight (series) ~
 * 11,130 [0.01%]: Kings of Leon
 * 11,117 [0.01%]: 90210 (TV series) ~
 * 11,115 [0.01%]: Thriller (album)
 * 11,110 [0.01%]: Pi
 * 11,105 [0.01%]: iCarly
 * 11,080 [0.01%]: George Washington
 * 11,057 [0.01%]: Edward Cullen (Twilight) or Edward Cullen
 * 11,046 [0.01%]: The Haunting in Connecticut ~
 * 11,037 [0.01%]: List of Lost episodes ~
 * 11,020 [0.01%]: Jesus
 * 11,010 [0.01%]: Illuminati
 * 11,100 [0.01%]: Dollhouse (TV series)
 * 10,943 [0.01%]: Super Bowl XLIII ~
 * 10,933 [0.01%]: Pokémon or Pokemon
 * 10,905 [0.01%]: Earth
 * 10,900 [0.01%]: Scientology
 * 10,890 [0.01%]: Vanessa Hudgens
 * 10,877 [0.01%]: Fedor Emelianenko
 * 10,865 [0.01%]: Fallout 3
 * 10,857 [0.01%]: One Tree Hill (TV series) ~
 * 10,810 [0.01%]: Janet Jackson
 * 10,770 [0.01%]: List of dog breeds
 * 10,760 [0.01%]: Freemasonry
 * 10,755 [0.01%]: Clitoris
 * 10,750 [0.01%]: RMS Titanic
 * 10,750 [0.01%]: Prison Break
 * 10,747 [0.01%]: Kobe Bryant
 * 10,724 [0.01%]: Singapore
 * 10,710 [0.01%]: California
 * 10,696 [0.01%]: Special:Export/ ~
 * 10,680 [0.01%]: New Moon (novel)
 * 10,650 [0.01%]: Akon
 * 10,647 [0.01%]: Community portal ~
 * 10,644 [0.01%]: Great Depression
 * 10,640 [0.01%]: The Undertaker
 * 10,630 [0.01%]: Star Wars
 * 10,625 [0.01%]: Friday the 13th (2009 film) ~
 * 10,590 [0.01%]: James Bond
 * 10,575 [0.01%]: Noesis
 * 10,570 [0.01%]: Cat
 * 10,560 [0.01%]: Gossip Girl (TV series) ~
 * 10,540 [0.01%]: List of How I Met Your Mother episodes
 * 10,534 [0.01%]: Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ~
 * 10,510 [0.01%]: Transformers (film)
 * 10,500 [0.01%]: Islam
 * 10,498 [0.01%]: List of The Simpsons episodes ~
 * 10,488 [0.01%]: World Wrestling Entertainment ~
 * 10,450 [0.01%]: Roger Federer
 * 10,430 [0.01%]: Bob Marley
 * 10,421 [0.01%]: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ~
 * 10,415 [0.01%]: Ronald Reagan
 * 10,395 [0.01%]: Natasha Richardson
 * 10,390 [<.01%]: Bob Dylan
 * 10,365 [0.01%]: The Office (U.S. TV series) ~
 * 10,360 [0.01%]: X-Men or Xmen
 * 10,330 [0.01%]: Muse (band)
 * 10,320 [0.01%]: AC/DC
 * 10,300 [0.01%]: Cannabis (drug)
 * 10,295 [0.01%]: Schizophrenia
 * 10,290 [0.01%]: Heath Ledger
 * 10,287 [0.01%]: Ireland
 * 10,285 [0.01%]: Desperate Housewives
 * 10,250 [0.01%]: Zac Efron
 * 10,230 [0.01%]: Switzerland
 * 10,220 [0.01%]: Ejaculation
 * 10,210 [0.01%]: Sweden
 * 10,142 [0.01%]: List of South Park episodes ~
 * 10,105 [0.01%]: Jimi Hendrix or Jimmy Hendrix
 * 10,090 [0.01%]: Buddhism
 * 10,085 [0.01%]: Microsoft
 * 10,080 [0.01%]: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
 * 10,070 [0.01%]: Burj Dubai
 * 10,070 [0.01%]: European Union
 * 10,060 [0.01%]: Elizabeth I of England
 * 10,053 [0.01%]: Palestine
 * 10,040 [0.01%]: Greek alphabet
 * 10,026 [0.01%]: Dubai
 * 10,020 [0.01%]: Slipknot (band)
 * 10,005 [0.01%]: Breaking Dawn
 * 10,000 [0.01%]: Shia LaBeouf
 * 9,995 [0.01%]: 24 (TV series)
 * 9,980 [0.01%]: Fellatio
 * 9,968 [0.01%]: Futurama
 * 9,965 [0.01%]: Cold War
 * 9,920 [0.01%]: President of the United States
 * 9,915 [0.01%]: Shakira
 * 9,899 [0.01%]: Christian Bale
 * 9,890 [0.01%]: John Cena
 * 9,870 [0.01%]: Argentina
 * 9,850 [0.01%]: Clint Eastwood
 * 9,840 [0.01%]: Vitiligo
 * 9,830 [0.01%]: Pink Floyd
 * 9,770 [0.01%]: Africa
 * 9,750 [0.01%]: Led Zeppelin or "Lead Zeppelin"
 * 9,726 [0.01%]: Female ejaculation
 * 9,725 [0.01%]: Mickey Rourke
 * 9,695 [0.01%]: Muhammad Ali
 * 9,670 [0.01%]: Bill Clinton
 * 9,660 [<.01%]: The Game (rapper)
 * 9,645 [<.01%]: Christopher Columbus
 * 9,570 [<.01%]: Paris
 * 9,566 [<.01%]: Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * 9,565 [<.01%]: Ryan Reynolds
 * 9,540 [<.01%]: Paper size
 * 9,485 [<.01%]: Lindsay Lohan
 * 9,480 [<.01%]: Cocaine
 * 9,460 [<.01%]: DNA
 * 9,455 [<.01%]: IPA for English
 * 9,445 [<.01%]: Tom Cruise
 * 9,444 [<.01%]: LeBron James
 * 9,410 [<.01%]: Paramore
 * 9,405 [<.01%]: Jenna Jameson
 * 9,402 [<.01%]: List of Scrubs episodes
 * 9,400 [<.01%]: Christmas
 * 9,390 [<.01%]: Brock Lesnar
 * 9,380 [<.01%]: Skins (TV series)
 * 9,370 [<.01%]: U2
 * 9,340 [<.01%]: AIDS
 * 9,340 [<.01%]: Snoop Dogg
 * 9,312 [<.01%]: Tuberculosis
 * 9,310 [<.01%]: Thomas Jefferson
 * 9,300 [<.01%]: Alexander the Great
 * 9,283 [<.01%]: Chris Brown (entertainer)
 * 9,270 [<.01%]: Jennifer Aniston
 * 9,238 [<.01%]: Queen (band)
 * 9,220 [<.01%]: Vampire
 * 9,211 [<.01%]: Mila Kunis
 * 9,200 [<.01%]: Celebrity sex tape
 * 9,190 [<.01%]: Afghanistan
 * 9,187 [<.01%]: Vulva
 * 9,160 [<.01%]: Ashley Tisdale
 * 9,107 [<.01%]: Lost (season 5)
 * 9,095 [<.01%]: Wizards of Waverly Place
 * 9,088 [<.01%]: David Bowie
 * 9,080 [<.01%]: Kurt Cobain
 * 9,068 [<.01%]: C (programming language)
 * 9,040 [<.01%]: Manny Pacquiao
 * 9,025 [<.01%]: Google Earth
 * 9,005 [<.01%]: Marilyn Monroe
 * 8,995 [<.01%]: Sandra Bullock
 * 8,980 [<.01%]: Valentine's Day
 * 8,970 [<.01%]: David Carradine
 * 8,965 [0.01%]: List of downloadable songs for the Rock Band series
 * 8,947 [<.01%]: Resident Evil 5
 * 8,945 [<.01%]: Emo
 * 8,940 [<.01%]: Renaissance
 * 8,914 [<.01%]: List of songs in Rock Band ~
 * 8,901 [<.01%]: Triple H
 * 8,871 [<.01%]: List of countries by GDP (nominal) ~
 * 8,870 [<.01%]: Homecoming (Naruto episode)
 * 8,870 [<.01%]: Jessica Alba
 * 8,869 [<.01%]: Periodic table
 * 8,851 [<.01%]: Cloud computing
 * 8,850 [<.01%]: Pussycat Dolls
 * 8,845 [<.01%]: Paris Hilton
 * 8,843 [<.01%]: Prince (musician)
 * 8,840 [<.01%]: Edgar Allan Poe
 * 8,822 [<.01%]: List of songs in Rock Band 2 ~
 * 8,820 [<.01%]: Isaac Newton
 * 8,801 [<.01%]: Contact us ~
 * 8,800 [<.01%]: Zooey Deschanel
 * 8,777 [<.01%]: Vietnam
 * 8,770 [<.01%]: Special:SpecialPages (+ 12 subpage hits per day) ~
 * 8,763 [<.01%]: Leonardo DiCaprio ~
 * 8,760 [<.01%]: Titanic (1997 film)
 * 8,740 [<.01%]: Nelson Mandela
 * 8,730 [<.01%]: Breast
 * 8,727 [<.01%]: Kama Sutra
 * 8,720 [<.01%]: Lily Allen
 * 8,720 [<.01%]: Marilyn Manson
 * 8,716 [<.01%]: Paul McCartney
 * 8,715 [<.01%]: Hawaii
 * 8,680 [<.01%]: Justin Timberlake
 * 8,678 [<.01%]: People's Republic of China ~
 * 8,677 [<.01%]: One Piece
 * 8,675 [<.01%]: Indonesia
 * 8,670 [<.01%]: Coldplay
 * 8,660 [<.01%]: Jeff Hardy
 * 8,650 [<.01%]: Water
 * 8,648 [<.01%]: Hong Kong
 * 8,640 [<.01%]: United States Constitution ~
 * 8,635 [<.01%]: Greece
 * 8,630 [<.01%]: Nirvana (band)
 * 8,630 [<.01%]: Adam Lambert
 * 8,628 [<.01%]: Kid Cudi
 * 8,615 [<.01%]: Dakota Fanning
 * 8,604 [<.01%]: Rebirth (Lil Wayne album) ~
 * 8,601 [<.01%]: Wolverine (comics) ~
 * 8,595 [<.01%]: Pneumonia
 * 8,590 [<.01%]: Randy Jackson (musician) ~
 * 8,589 [<.01%]: 2009 swine flu outbreak ~
 * 8,580 [<.01%]: Stephen Hawking
 * 8,580 [<.01%]: Michael Oher
 * 8,570 [<.01%]: Ku Klux Klan
 * 8,555 [<.01%]: Jim Carrey
 * 8,552 [<.01%]: Air France Flight 447 (+ 6,325 redirect hits/day in June) ~
 * 8,545 [<.01%]: Igor Stravinsky (+ 486 redirect hits/day in June) ~
 * 8,536 [<.01%]: 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict ~
 * 8,535 [<.01%]: Hilary Duff
 * 8,520 [<.01%]: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button or "+(film)" ~
 * 8,520 [<.01%]: Julius Caesar
 * 8,510 [<.01%]: Ten Commandments
 * 8,476 [<.01%]: Ed McMahon (+ 1,079 redirect hits/day in June) ~
 * 8,466 [<.01%]: Battlestar Galactica ~
 * 8,463 [<.01%]: The Secret Life of the American Teenager ~
 * 8,461 [<.01%]: List of Super Bowl champions ~
 * 8,455 [<.01%]: Chicago
 * 8,450 [<.01%]: F-22 Raptor ~
 * 8,430 [<.01%]: Pablo Picasso
 * 8,419 [<.01%]: Patrick Swayze ~
 * 8,416 [<.01%]: Seven Pounds ~
 * 8,410 [<.01%]: Justin Bieber
 * 8,394 [<.01%]: Heroes ~
 * 8,390 [<.01%]: Freddie Mercury or Freddy...
 * 8,383 [<.01%]: 2009
 * 8,382 [<.01%]: Los Angeles
 * 8,380 [<.01%]: Zodiac
 * 8,370 [<.01%]: Gross domestic product
 * 8,350 [<.01%]: The Blueprint 3
 * 8,345 [<.01%]: Mars
 * 8,340 [<.01%]: Attack on Pearl Harbor
 * 8,340 [<.01%]: Kiss (band)
 * 8,325 [<.01%]: The Rolling Stones or Rolling Stones
 * 8,320 [<.01%]: Eclipse (Meyer novel)
 * 8,315 [<.01%]: Left 4 Dead
 * 8,312 [<.01%]: Fringe (TV series)
 * 8,310 [<.01%]: Blink-182
 * 8,306 [<.01%]: Scarlett Johansson
 * 8,300 [<.01%]: Poland
 * 8,296 [<.01%]: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) ~
 * 8,288 [<.01%]: ER (TV series) ~
 * 8,270 [<.01%]: Autism
 * 8,260 [<.01%]: Romeo and Juliet
 * 8,250 [<.01%]: Dog
 * 8,243 [<.01%]: Joseph Stalin
 * 8,240 [<.01%]: Steve Jobs
 * 8,235 [<.01%]: Theodore Roosevelt
 * 8,230 [<.01%]: Galileo Galilei or Galileo (redirect)
 * 8,190 [<.01%]: Malaysia
 * 8,180 [<.01%]: Multiple sclerosis
 * 8,177 [<.01%]: Soviet Union
 * 8,160 [<.01%]: Malcolm X
 * 8,150 [<.01%]: Hentai
 * 8,141 [<.01%]: Jackson family (30,000 per day mid-July)
 * 8,140 [<.01%]: Dr. Dre
 * 8,140 [<.01%]: Psychology
 * 8,135 [<.01%]: Sasha Grey
 * 8,116 [<.01%]: Portal:Contents/Portals ~
 * 8,115 [<.01%]: Korean War
 * 8,110 [<.01%]: Scotland
 * 8,105 [<.01%]: Wii
 * 8,100 [<.01%]: Socialism
 * 8,091 [<.01%]: Puerto Rico
 * 8,077 [<.01%]: Norway
 * 8,070 [<.01%]: Bruce Springsteen
 * 8,060 [<.01%]: Real Madrid C.F.
 * 8,055 [<.01%]: M.I.A. (artist)
 * 8,050 [<.01%]: Iceland
 * 8,040 [<.01%]: Fast & Furious (2009 film) ~
 * 8,011 [<.01%]: Holocaust
 * 8,003 [<.01%]: Solar System
 * 8,000 [<.01%]: Valkyrie (film)
 * 7,980 [<.01%]: Adam Sandler
 * 7,975 [<.01%]: IPod Touch
 * 7,970 [<.01%]: Easter
 * 7,960 [<.01%]: Computer
 * 7,945 [<.01%]: Moon
 * 7,940 [<.01%]: Chernobyl disaster
 * 7,940 [<.01%]: Sarah Palin
 * 7,932 [<.01%]: Copyrights ~
 * 7,930 [<.01%]: Cuba
 * 7,920 [<.01%]: Andy Warhol
 * 7,905 [<.01%]: Benjamin Franklin
 * 7,895 [<.01%]: Texas
 * 7,850 [<.01%]: Harvey Milk
 * 7,845 [<.01%]: Nas
 * 7,841 [<.01%]: World Trade Center
 * 7,840 [<.01%]: Playboy
 * 7,830 [<.01%]: Winston Churchill
 * 7,826 [<.01%]: Supernatural (TV series) ~
 * 7,822 [<.01%]: List of countries by population ~
 * 7,820 [<.01%]: NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship ~
 * 7,820 [<.01%]: Fuck
 * 7,800 [<.01%]: Washington, D.C. or "...DC"
 * 7,778 [<.01%]: South Korea
 * 7,767 [<.01%]: Maslow's hierarchy of needs
 * 7,765 [<.01%]: Twilight
 * 7,760 [<.01%]: Sun
 * 7,756 [<.01%]: Industrial Revolution
 * 7,752 [<.01%]: Liam Neeson
 * 7,750 [<.01%]: Superman
 * 7,744 [<.01%]: HIV
 * 7,738 [<.01%]: Nudity
 * 7,732 [<.01%]: List of songs in Guitar Hero World Tour ~
 * 7,730 [<.01%]: Vin Diesel
 * 7,715 [<.01%]: Seth Rogen
 * 7,710 [<.01%]: Johnny Cash
 * 7,702 [<.01%]: John Travolta
 * 7,700 [<.01%]: 24 (season 7) or 24
 * 7,695 [<.01%]: Thailand
 * 7,684 [<.01%]: UEFA Champions League
 * 7,670 [<.01%]: Macaulay Culkin
 * 7,655 [<.01%]: Denmark
 * 7,650 [<.01%]: Kate Winslet
 * 7,640 [<.01%]: Lost
 * 7,638 [0.01%]: Michelle Obama
 * 7,635 [<.01%]: David Beckham
 * 7,630 [<.01%]: Nicole Scherzinger
 * 7,618 [<.01%]: Pink (singer) ~
 * 7,610 [<.01%]: Area 51
 * 7,605 [<.01%]: Text of the GNU Free Documentation License ~
 * 7,600 [<.01%]: List of social networking websites
 * 7,589 [<.01%]: Serial ATA ~
 * 7,580 [<.01%]: Coffee
 * 7,571 [<.01%]: Napoleon I of France
 * 7,566 [<.01%]: Iron Maiden ~
 * 7,550 [<.01%]: Nazi Germany ~
 * 7,550 [<.01%]: iPod ~
 * 7,549 [<.01%]: Danny Boyle ~
 * 7,540 [<.01%]: Before I Self Destruct
 * 7,535 [<.01%]: Walt Disney
 * 7,530 [<.01%]: Rosa Parks
 * 7,524 [<.01%]: Final Fantasy
 * 7,508 [<.01%]: Gucci Mane
 * 7,505 [<.01%]: Upload
 * 7,494 [<.01%]: Tom Hanks
 * 7,485 [<.01%]: Oprah Winfrey
 * 7,471 [<.01%]: US Airways Flight 1549 ~
 * 7,470 [<.01%]: Final Fantasy XIII
 * 7,459 [<.01%]: Ciara ~
 * 7,456 [<.01%]: iPhone ~
 * 7,450 [<.01%]: HTTP ~
 * 7,441 [<.01%]: Hulk Hogan
 * 7,440 [<.01%]: Michael Bublé
 * 7,425 [<.01%]: Circumcision
 * 7,422 [<.01%]: Guns N' Roses ~
 * 7,421 [<.01%]: Basketball
 * 7,421 [<.01%]: Grand Theft Auto IV
 * 7,420 [<.01%]: Oxycodone
 * 7,419 [<.01%]: Caffeine ~
 * 7,414 [<.01%]: 300 (film) ~
 * 7,413 [<.01%]: Chelsea F.C.
 * 7,411 [<.01%]: Globalization ~
 * 7,410 [<.01%]: Ponzi scheme ~
 * 7,407 [<.01%]: Hurricane Katrina (cycles weekly)
 * 7,405 [<.01%]: Up (2009 film)
 * 7,383 [<.01%]: United States Bill of Rights
 * 7,373 [<.01%]: Arsenal F.C. ~
 * 7,363 [<.01%]: Kelly Clarkson
 * 7,362 [<.01%]: New York ~
 * 7,359 [<.01%]: Ludwig van Beethoven ~
 * 7,355 [<.01%]: Salvador Dalí ~
 * 7,355 [<.01%]: John F. Kennedy assassination ~
 * 7,350 [<.01%]: BDSM
 * 7,340 [<.01%]: Penélope Cruz or Penelope...
 * 7,333 [<.01%]: Journey (band) ~
 * 7,330 [<.01%]: Iori Yagami ~
 * 7,326 [<.01%]: 501(c) ~
 * 7,325 [<.01%]: Rome
 * 7,320 [<.01%]: Hayden Panettiere
 * 7,310 [<.01%]: Cancer
 * 7,309 [<.01%]: Harriet Tubman ~
 * 7,295 [<.01%]: Wolverine and the X-Men
 * 7,295 [<.01%]: Alicia Keys
 * 7,289 [<.01%]: Shahrukh Khan
 * 7,281 [<.01%]: Bones (TV series) ~
 * 7,280 [<.01%]: Human
 * 7,278 [<.01%]: Jack the Ripper ~
 * 7,268 [<.01%]: George Harrison
 * 7,263 [<.01%]: File:Red pog.svg (image: Red pog.svg) ~
 * 7,260 [<.01%]: Miranda Cosgrove
 * 7,255 [<.01%]: United Arab Emirates
 * 7,247 [<.01%]: Freida Pinto or Frieda
 * 7,237 [<.01%]: Ashton Kutcher
 * 7,220 [<.01%]: Gaza strip or Gaza
 * 7,210 [<.01%]: Blood pressure
 * 7,205 [<.01%]: Gerard Butler
 * 7,201 [<.01%]: List of unusual deaths
 * 7,200 [<.01%]: Al Capone
 * 7,200 [<.01%]: LOL
 * 7,190 [<.01%]: French Revolution
 * 7,180 [<.01%]: Kimbo Slice
 * 7,172 [<.01%]: United Nations
 * 7,170 [<.01%]: Fascism
 * 7,170 [<.01%]: Nigeria
 * 7,167 [<.01%]: Ivy League
 * 7,150 [<.01%]: List of Doctor Who serials
 * 7,147 [<.01%]: Randy Orton
 * 7,140 [<.01%]: Blood type
 * 7,135 [<.01%]: Jermaine Jackson
 * 7,130 [<.01%]: Anime
 * 7,120 [<.01%]: Finland
 * 7,095 [<.01%]: Michelangelo or "Michaelangelo"
 * 7,090 [<.01%]: Pubic hair
 * 7,075 [<.01%]: Jupiter
 * 7,074 [<.01%]: Joaquin Phoenix
 * 7,063 [<.01%]: Hugh Jackman
 * 7,060 [<.01%]: Craigslist
 * 7,058 [<.01%]: Red Hot Chili Peppers ~
 * 7,050 [<.01%]: Sri Lanka
 * 7,046 [<.01%]: Two and a Half Men ~
 * 7,043 [<.01%]: Black Death ~
 * 7,038 [<.01%]: Columbine High School massacre ~
 * 7,036 [<.01%]: Gmail
 * 7,035 [<.01%]: Non-profit organization ~
 * 7,030 [<.01%]: Jamaica
 * 7,029 [<.01%]: Anne Hathaway (actress)
 * 7,029 [<.01%]: Sigmund Freud
 * 7,020 [<.01%]: List of iCarly episodes
 * 7,015 [<.01%]: Radiohead
 * 7,010 [<.01%]: 3G
 * 7,006 [<.01%]: Operating system
 * 7,005 [<.01%]: Shaquille O'Neal or Shaq
 * 6,994 [<.01%]: Muhammad
 * 6,980 [<.01%]: Bow Wow
 * 6,980 [<.01%]: Ice Cube
 * 6,970 [<.01%]: Karl Marx
 * 6,966 [<.01%]: Roman Empire
 * 6,965 [<.01%]: World population ~
 * 6,965 [<.01%]: United States Declaration of Independence ~
 * 6,965 [<.01%]: Nintendo DSi ~
 * 6,963 [<.01%]: Roman Empire
 * 6,960 [<.01%]: Andrew Jackson ~
 * 6,950 [<.01%]: High School Musical 2 or High School Musical
 * 6,947 [<.01%]: 4chan
 * 6,943 [<.01%]: Google Street View ~
 * 6,940 [<.01%]: Russell Brand
 * 6,930 [<.01%]: Sacha Baron Cohen (+ 1,049 redirect hits/day in June) ~
 * 6,927 [<.01%]: Jesse McCartney
 * 6,925 [<.01%]: Bukkake
 * 6,915 [<.01%]: Ludacris
 * 6,910 [<.01%]: Lion
 * 6,904 [<.01%]: Volcano
 * 6,904 [<.01%]: Warren Buffett
 * 6,890 [<.01%]: Osama bin Laden
 * 6,888 [<.01%]: Florida
 * 6,880 [<.01%]: Romania
 * 6,875 [<.01%]: Channing Tatum (G.I. Joe)
 * 6,872 [<.01%]: RAID
 * 6,870 [<.01%]: Ethanol
 * 6,865 [<.01%]: Audrey Hepburn
 * 6,861 [<.01%]: Guantanamo Bay detention camp ~
 * 6,860 [<.01%]: Alaska
 * 6,845 [<.01%]: Dev Patel
 * 6,840 [<.01%]: A. R. Rahman ~
 * 6,836 [<.01%]: Avengers (comics) ~
 * 6,836 [<.01%]: Normal distribution
 * 6,830 [<.01%]: T-Pain
 * 6,824 [<.01%]: Code Geass
 * 6,817 [<.01%]: List of United States cities by population ~
 * 6,815 [<.01%]: Belgium
 * 6,810 [<.01%]: Tiger
 * 6,809 [<.01%]: Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)
 * 6,805 [<.01%]: Natalie Portman
 * 6,804 [<.01%]: Seven Wonders of the World
 * 6,800 [<.01%]: List of Top Gear episodes
 * 6,790 [<.01%]: Thomas Edison
 * 6,788 [<.01%]: American Revolutionary War ~
 * 6,780 [<.01%]: Daniel Radcliffe
 * 6,770 [<.01%]: Jennifer Lopez
 * 6,769 [<.01%]: Christina Aguilera
 * 6,765 [<.01%]: Daylight saving time or "savings"
 * 6,758 [<.01%]: Oasis (band)
 * 6,755 [<.01%]: Joker (comics)
 * 6,750 [<.01%]: Adderall
 * 6,742 [<.01%]: Blog
 * 6,730 [<.01%]: G-spot
 * 6,728 [<.01%]: Web 2.0 or Web 2
 * 6,720 [<.01%]: The Holocaust
 * 6,715 [<.01%]: Christianity
 * 6,710 [<.01%]: Nicolas Cage
 * 6,695 [<.01%]: Auschwitz concentration camp
 * 6,690 [<.01%]: Aristotle
 * 6,680 [<.01%]: Colombia
 * 6,669 [<.01%]: Death Note
 * 6,665 [<.01%]: F-35 Lightning II
 * 6,661 [<.01%]: Absinthe
 * 6,660 [<.01%]: Morocco
 * 6,659 [<.01%]: Salvia divinorum
 * 6,635 [<.01%]: Cunnilingus
 * 6,630 [<.01%]: Crohn's disease
 * 6,630 [<.01%]: George H. W. Bush
 * 6,625 [<.01%]: Keri Hilson
 * 6,603 [<.01%]: Neil Patrick Harris
 * 6,611 [<.01%]: Great Wall of China ~
 * 6,603 [<.01%]: Gossip Girl (TV Series) ~
 * 6,600 [<.01%]: Tramadol
 * 6,599 [<.01%]: Liverpool F.C. ~
 * 6,583 [<.01%]: High School Musical 3 or High School Musical
 * 6,582 [<.01%]: Leona Lewis
 * 6,580 [<.01%]: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake ~
 * 6,575 [<.01%]: Helen Keller
 * 6,572 [<.01%]: Young Jeezy
 * 6,566 [<.01%]: Hugh Hefner
 * 6,565 [<.01%]: Blu-ray Disc
 * 6,563 [<.01%]: Açaí Palm ~
 * 6,561 [<.01%]: Information technology ~
 * 6,560 [<.01%]: The Godfather
 * 6,559 [<.01%]: Hitler
 * 6,558 [<.01%]: Evolution
 * 6,546 [<.01%]: Help:Contents
 * 6,540 [<.01%]: Seinfeld
 * 6,535 [<.01%]: Usain Bolt
 * 6,534 [<.01%]: The Sims 3 ~
 * 6,530 [<.01%]: Abortion
 * 6,525 [<.01%]: Chuck (TV series) ~
 * 6,520 [<.01%]: Heroin
 * 6,520 [<.01%]: Anne Boleyn
 * 6,520 [<.01%]: Linux
 * 6,519 [<.01%]: Mark Wahlberg
 * 6,517 [<.01%]: Ottoman Empire ~
 * 6,515 [<.01%]: Coraline (film) ~
 * 6,513 [<.01%]: Nineteen Eighty-Four ~
 * 6,512 [<.01%]: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li ~
 * 6,500 [<.01%]: This Is It (Michael Jackson concerts) & film
 * 6,496 [<.01%]: Scrubs
 * 6,495 [<.01%]: List of female porn stars by decade
 * 6,493 [<.01%]: Joe Jonas ~
 * 6,491 [<.01%]: Agnosticism ~
 * 6,490 [<.01%]: List of Naruto characters
 * 6,487 [<.01%]: John Adams
 * 6,485 [<.01%]: Gambit (comics)
 * 6,479 [<.01%]: Rick Ross (rapper)
 * 6,477 [<.01%]: Joe Biden ~
 * 6,476 [<.01%]: Conficker
 * 6,475 [<.01%]: Narcissism
 * 6,473 [<.01%]: Porno (novel) ~
 * 6,471 [<.01%]: Alan Moore ~
 * 6,469 [<.01%]: Recent deaths ~
 * 6,463 [<.01%]: Morrissey ~
 * 6,462 [<.01%]: Saudi Arabia ~
 * 6,461 [<.01%]: Bermuda Triangle ~
 * 6,460 [<.01%]: Dominican Republic
 * 6,450 [<.01%]: MGMT
 * 6,445 [<.01%]: Gold
 * 6,444 [<.01%]: Grand Theft Auto (series) ~
 * 6,441 [<.01%]: Obsessive-compulsive disorder ~
 * 6,440 [<.01%]: Virus
 * 6,439 [<.01%]: Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ~
 * 6,437 [<.01%]: Wiktionary
 * 6,430 [<.01%]: Malware
 * 6,422 [<.01%]: Taj Mahal ~
 * 6,420 [<.01%]: Carbon dioxide ~
 * 6,412 [<.01%]: Ernest Hemingway
 * 6,410 [<.01%]: Sean Combs ~
 * 6,409 [<.01%]: Shawn Michaels
 * 6,408 [<.01%]: Nick Jonas ~
 * 6,400 [<.01%]: Tagged
 * 6,392 [<.01%]: Existentialism
 * 6,390 [<.01%]: Firefly (TV series) ~
 * 6,390 [<.01%]: Gout
 * 6,387 [<.01%]: Aishwarya Rai
 * 6,377 [<.01%]: Ugly Betty
 * 6,375 [<.01%]: Avril Lavigne
 * 6,374 [<.01%]: Eye color
 * 6,370 [<.01%]: World of Warcraft ~
 * 6,370 [<.01%]: NATO phonetic alphabet
 * 6,364 [<.01%]: Demi Moore
 * 6,363 [<.01%]: Sylvester Stallone
 * 6,360 [<.01%]: Zombieland
 * 6,359 [<.01%]: Joely Richardson ~
 * 6,355 [<.01%]: Windows Vista
 * 6,351 [<.01%]: Holly Madison ~
 * 6,351 [<.01%]: Gerald Ford ~
 * 6,350 [<.01%]: Fall Out Boy ~
 * 6,345 [<.01%]: Robin Williams
 * 6,340 [<.01%]: 2008 in film
 * 6,337 [<.01%]: Claus von Stauffenberg ~
 * 6,333 [<.01%]: Native Americans in the United States ~
 * 6,327 [<.01%]: The-Dream ~
 * 6,325 [<.01%]: Victoria of the United Kingdom
 * 6,315 [<.01%]: Assassin's Creed
 * 6,310 [<.01%]: Susan Boyle (or higher, with 2,148 daily redirects in June) ~
 * 6,304 [<.01%]: Proxy server
 * 6,300 [<.01%]: Zeus
 * 6,298 [<.01%]: Marketing
 * 6,295 [<.01%]: G.I. Joe or GI Joe
 * 6,290 [<.01%]: Mahatma Gandhi
 * 6,280 [<.01%]: Avenged Sevenfold
 * 6,280 [<.01%]: Philosophy
 * 6,279 [<.01%]: Criminal Minds
 * 6,278 [<.01%]: Aerosmith ~
 * 6,274 [<.01%]: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ~
 * 6,273 [<.01%]: Bella Swan ~
 * 6,270 [<.01%]: Amino acid ~
 * 6,269 [<.01%]: Mount Everest ~
 * 6,266 [<.01%]: The Big Bang Theory (TV series) ~
 * 6,265 [<.01%]: Air Force One ~
 * 6,262 [<.01%]: Tila Tequila
 * 6,261 [<.01%]: Maya civilization
 * 6,253 [<.01%]: Fingering (sexual act)
 * 6,250 [<.01%]: Anderson Silva
 * 6,245 [<.01%]: Ted Bundy
 * 6,241 [<.01%]: UFC 104
 * 6,240 [<.01%]: Aishwarya Rai
 * 6,239 [<.01%]: K
 * 6,239 [<.01%]: Chile
 * 6,231 [<.01%]: Elin Nordegren
 * 6,230 [<.01%]: Bruce Willis
 * 6,229 [<.01%]: M16 rifle
 * 6,228 [<.01%]: Hookah
 * 6,221 [<.01%]: Madagascar
 * 6,220 [<.01%]: Bernard Madoff
 * 6,215 [<.01%]: Meningitis
 * 6,214 [<.01%]: Dictionary
 * 6,211 [<.01%]: Capitalism
 * 6,210 [<.01%]: Kennedy family
 * 6,209 [<.01%]: Judaism
 * 6,195 [<.01%]: Street Fighter IV
 * 6,190 [<.01%]: Microsoft Windows
 * 6,189 [<.01%]: Hedge fund ~
 * 6,180 [<.01%]: Antarctica
 * 6,170 [<.01%]: The Sopranos
 * 6,157 [<.01%]: Rachel McAdams
 * 6,156 [<.01%]: List of NCIS episodes
 * 6,150 [<.01%]: The Matrix
 * 6,146 [<.01%]: Frank Sinatra ~
 * 6,145 [<.01%]: Stone Cold Steve Austin
 * 6,143 [<.01%]: Hydrogen
 * 6,140 [<.01%]: Plato
 * 6,139 [<.01%]: Heart
 * 6,132 [<.01%]: Matt Damon
 * 6,131 [<.01%]: Nickelback
 * 6,130 [<.01%]: Jason Mraz
 * 6,115 [<.01%]: Hinduism
 * 6,112 [<.01%]: AK-47
 * 6,107 [<.01%]: Pornographic actor
 * 6,105 [<.01%]: Economics
 * 6,104 [<.01%]: Search engine optimization
 * 6,101 [<.01%]: Leighton Meester
 * 6,100 [<.01%]: Austria
 * 6,095 [<.01%]: Windows XP
 * 6,094 [<.01%]: Andy Samberg
 * 6,080 [<.01%]: List of colors
 * 6,072 [<.01%]: Portugal
 * 6,070 [<.01%]: Peru
 * 6,069 [<.01%]: Democracy
 * 6,066 [<.01%]: Alice in Wonderland (2010 film) ~
 * 6,062 [<.01%]: Ne-Yo
 * 6,061 [<.01%]: Special:Preferences (+ 1 subpage hits per day) ~
 * 6,060 [<.01%]: George Clooney
 * 6,058 [<.01%]: Bangladesh
 * 6,056 [<.01%]: Iraq War
 * 6,040 [<.01%]: Julia Child
 * 6,038 [<.01%]: Super Junior
 * 6,031 [<.01%]: Stephenie Meyer
 * 6,030 [<.01%]: Randy Jackson
 * 6,026 [<.01%]: RSS (file format)
 * 6,025 [<.01%]: Katherine Jackson (mother of MJ)
 * 6,017 [<.01%]: Slash (musician)
 * 6,009 [<.01%]: Ox (zodiac) ~
 * 6,003 [<.01%]: Vitamin D ~
 * 6,000 [<.01%]: Rafael Nadal
 * 5,999 [<.01%]: Advertising ~
 * 5,996 [<.01%]: List of Naruto: Shippuden episodes ~
 * 5,997 [<.01%]: Automobile
 * 5,995 [<.01%]: Chinese New Year
 * 5,992 [<.01%]: Premier League ~
 * 5,984 [<.01%]: Conan O'Brien ~
 * 5,975 [<.01%]: Black hole
 * 5,955 [<.01%]: Academy Award
 * 5,954 [<.01%]: Anne Frank
 * 5,952 [<.01%]: Academy Award for Best Picture
 * 5,941 [<.01%]: Carrie Underwood
 * 5,940 [<.01%]: Wales
 * 5,937 [<.01%]: Ukraine
 * 5,933 [<.01%]: Sons of Anarchy
 * 5,930 [<.01%]: Friedrich Nietzsche
 * 5,928 [<.01%]: MP3
 * 5,922 [<.01%]: Golden ratio
 * 5,920 [<.01%]: Caribbean
 * 5,910 [<.01%]: Usher (entertainer)
 * 5,895 [<.01%]: Taiwan
 * 5,892 [<.01%]: God
 * 5,890 [<.01%]: Communism
 * 5,886 [<.01%]: Coca-Cola
 * 5,885 [<.01%]: The Prodigy or Prodigy
 * 5,882 [<.01%]: Elizabeth Taylor
 * 5,880 [<.01%]: DVD
 * 5,878 [<.01%]: Czech Republic
 * 5,861 [<.01%]: Korn
 * 5,856 [<.01%]: Dr. Seuss
 * 5,855 [<.01%]: Keanu Reeves
 * 5,855 [<.01%]: Steve McNair
 * 5,854 [<.01%]: Charles Dickens
 * 5,837 [<.01%]: King Arthur
 * 5,832 [<.01%]: Tokyo
 * 5,830 [<.01%]: Nostradamus
 * 5,826 [<.01%]: World Wide Web
 * 5,825 [<.01%]: Guitar
 * 5,805 [<.01%]: ABBA
 * 5,815 [<.01%]: Mafia
 * 5,801 [<.01%]: List of Bleach characters
 * 5,800 [<.01%]: Amsterdam
 * 5,797 [<.01%]: Euro
 * 5,795 [<.01%]: Down syndrome
 * 5,790 [<.01%]: Martin Luther
 * 5,788 [<.01%]: XML
 * 5,780 [<.01%]: Domain Name System
 * 5,777 [<.01%]: Venus
 * 5,764 [<.01%]: Banana
 * 5,757 [<.01%]: Venezuela
 * 5,755 [<.01%]: Diana, Princess of Wales
 * 5,750 [<.01%]: Genghis Khan
 * 5,748 [<.01%]: Sparta
 * 5,745 [<.01%]: Steven Spielberg
 * 5,733 [<.01%]: Jane Austen or Austin
 * 5,730 [<.01%]: Jesse James
 * 5,720 [<.01%]: Religion
 * 5,715 [<.01%]: XXX
 * 5,711 [<.01%]: Paul Rudd
 * 5,710 [<.01%]: Jimmy Carter
 * 5,710 [<.01%]: Perseids
 * 5,705 [<.01%]: Hermaphrodite
 * 5,703 [<.01%]: Penis enlargement
 * 5,700 [<.01%]: Medicine or drug (2500/day)
 * 5,695 [<.01%]: White House
 * 5,694 [<.01%]: Circus (Britney Spears album)
 * 5,691 [<.01%]: Tool (band)
 * 5,690 [<.01%]: Aaliyah
 * 5,690 [<.01%]: The Wrestler (2008 film)
 * 5,686 [<.01%]: Jay Sean
 * 5,685 [<.01%]: Cricket
 * 5,685 [<.01%]: FIFA World Cup
 * 5,670 [<.01%]: Lebanon
 * 5,669 [<.01%]: Syphilis or "Syphillis" or Siphilis
 * 5,668 [<.01%]: Dwight D. Eisenhower
 * 5,665 [<.01%]: The Who
 * 5,660 [<.01%]: Laser
 * 5,643 [<.01%]: Eric Clapton
 * 5,640 [<.01%]: High school or School
 * 5,640 [<.01%]: Billie Jean
 * 5,635 [<.01%]: Pluto
 * 5,622 [<.01%]: Meryl Streep
 * 5,620 [<.01%]: Crack cocaine
 * 5,615 [<.01%]: Marie Antoinette
 * 5,611 [<.01%]: Rorschach (comics)
 * 5,610 [<.01%]: Prime number
 * 5,607 [<.01%]: Judy Garland
 * 5,605 [<.01%]: High-definition television or Digital television or HDTV
 * 5,605 [<.01%]: Sean Penn
 * 5,605 [<.01%]: Hugh Laurie
 * 5,600 [<.01%]: HDMI
 * 5,599 [<.01%]: Bradley Cooper
 * 5,598 [<.01%]: Mozart
 * 5,598 [<.01%]: Dragon
 * 5,594 [<.01%]: Greek mythology
 * 5,592 [<.01%]: Television or TV
 * 5,593 [<.01%]: Xbox 360 technical problems
 * 5,590 [<.01%]: Football or Soccer (1833/day)
 * 5,585 [<.01%]: Fibonacci number
 * 5,580 [<.01%]: Mobile phone -
 * 5,580 [<.01%]: Zoe Saldana or Zoe Saldaña
 * 5,571 [<.01%]: Zimbabwe
 * 5,570 [<.01%]: Hungary
 * 5,565 [<.01%]: Jason Statham
 * 5,560 [<.01%]: Skype
 * 5,557 [<.01%]: Dinosaur
 * 5,555 [<.01%]: Ghana
 * 5,553 [<.01%]: Protein
 * 5,550 [<.01%]: James Cameron
 * 5,542 [<.01%]: Croatia
 * 5,535 [<.01%]: Cyprus
 * 5,530 [<.01%]: Alcohol
 * 5,510 [<.01%]: User Datagram Protocol
 * 5,504 [<.01%]: Jacob Black
 * 5,496 [<.01%]: Mother Teresa
 * 5,493 [<.01%]: List of billionaires
 * 5,485 [<.01%]: Ethiopia
 * 5,480 [<.01%]: Ocean or Pacific Ocean
 * 5,458 [<.01%]: Hypertension
 * 5,435 [<.01%]: Taken (film)
 * 5,430 [<.01%]: Jennifer Love Hewitt
 * 5,410 [<.01%]: Chocolate
 * 5,396 [<.01%]: Colosseum
 * 5,330 [<.01%]: Nikki Reed
 * 5,328 [<.01%]: DMX (rapper)
 * 5,270 [<.01%]: Divine Comedy
 * 5,185 [<.01%]: Berlin
 * 5,105 [<.01%]: Owl City (16,180/day final 3 months)
 * 5,100 [<.01%]: Peyton Manning (10,882/day final 3 months)
 * 5,004 [<.01%]: Amy Winehouse
 * 4,695 [<.009]: Ninja
 * 4,522 [<.009]: Oxygen
 * 4,517 [<.009]: Haiti
 * 4,320 [<.009]: Dolly Parton
 * 4,160 [<.009]: Luxembourg or Luxemburg
 * 4,135 [<.009]: Rod Stewart
 * 4,130 [<.009]: Lithuania
 * 4,104 [<.009]: Werewolf
 * (others in development for the Top 1000)

Some of top 1001–2000

 * 1009. 5,597 [<.01%]: ? (170,708/month)
 * 1011. 5,591 [<.01%]: ?
 * 1014. 5,589 [<.01%]: ?
 * 1015. 5,585 [<.01%]: ?
 * 1019. 5,574 [<.01%]: ? (170,007/month)
 * 1020. 5,570 [<.01%]: ?
 * 1030. 5,560 [<.01%]: ?
 * 1035. 5,550 [<.01%]: ?
 * 1040? 5,504 [<.01%]: Jacob Black
 * 1044. 5,492 [<.01%]: ? (167,506/month)
 * 1048? 5,480 [<.01%]: Jack Black
 * 1051? 5,475 [<.01%]: Tsunami  (weekly cycle)
 * 1052? 5,470 [<.01%]: Iraq
 * 1053? 5,463 [<.01%]: Airbus A380  166,621
 * 1056? 5,450 [<.01%]: Gran Torino (film) ~
 * 1061? 5,678 [<.01%]: ?  (Hurricane Katrina in 2010)
 * 1071. 5,420 [<.01%]: Watergate scandal
 * 1072. 5,418 [<.01%]: ? (165,249/month)
 * 1073. 5,410 [<.01%]: Recession
 * 1074. 5,405 [<.01%]: Neverland Ranch
 * 1080? 5,388 [<.01%]: Mumbai
 * 1081? 5,385 [<.01%]: Serbia
 * 1090. 5,380 [<.01%]: ?


 * 1111 5,448 [<.01%]: ? (166,164/month)
 * 1112? 5,371 [<.01%]: Bad (album)
 * 1113? 5,370 [<.01%]: Animal
 * 1114. 5,327 [<.01%]: Atlantis
 * 1115. 5,325 [<.01%]: Keira Knightley
 * 1116. 5,323 [<.01%]: ? (162,352/month)
 * 114x. 5,320 [<.01%]: Severus Snape
 * 114x. 5,315 [<.01%]: Isla Fisher
 * 115x. 5,280 [<.01%]: Hanukkah
 * 115x. 5,250 [<.01%]: Sam Worthington
 * 115x. 5,247 [<.01%]: Benito Mussolini
 * 116x. 5,238 [<.01%]: Wineville Chicken Coop Murders
 * 1170. 5,215 [<.01%]: ? (159,057/month)
 * 117x. 5,207 [<.01%]: Haiku
 * 117x. 5,205 [<.01%]: Manhattan
 * 1177. 5,198 [<.01%]: ? (161,137/month)
 * 1179. 5,150 [<.01%]: Gorillaz
 * 1180. 5,138 [<.01%]: Kenya
 * 1181. 5,116 [<.01%]: Condom
 * 1182. 5,101 [<.01%]: Horse
 * 1183. 5,100 [<.01%]: Keith Carradine
 * 1184. 5,098 [<.01%]: Malta
 * 1185. 5,095 [<.01%]: Julia Roberts
 * 1186. 5,094 [<.01%]: River Phoenix
 * 1187. 5,085 [<.01%]: Jew
 * 1188. 5,080 [<.01%]: Ben 10
 * 1189. 5,063 [<.01%]: Romanticism
 * 1190. 5,062 [<.01%]: Television
 * 1191. 5,060 [<.01%]: Eliza Dushku
 * 1192. 5,056 [<.01%]: Moonwalk (dance)
 * 1193. 5,052 [<.01%]: Heart rate
 * 1194. 5,043 [<.01%]: Greek gods
 * 1195. 5,040 [<.01%]: Characters of Watchmen
 * 1196. 5,037 [<.01%]: Malaria
 * 1197. 5,036 [<.01%]: Saturn
 * 1198. 5,035 [<.01%]: Juventus F.C.
 * 1199. 5,030 [<.01%]: The Catcher in the Rye
 * 1200. 5,029 [<.01%]: A.C. Milan


 * 1201   ?   152,195 (4990/day)
 * 1202?   Jazz   150,792 (4944/day)
 * 1203?   Beer   152,134 (4988/day)
 * 1204?   Bacteria   151341 (4962/day)
 * 1205?   Amanda Bynes   96892
 * 1206?   Hamlet   149510 (4902/day)
 * 1207?   Palestine   149480 (4901/day)
 * 1208?   Encyclopedia   149,450 (4900/day)
 * 1209   ?   149, (4/day)
 * 1210?   Salma Hayek   148,809 (4879/day)
 * 1211   Berlin   147497
 * 1212   ?   172,874 (5668/day)
 * 1215?   Halo 3   147071 (4822/day)
 * 1218?   Obama   146,796 (4813/day)
 * 1219?   Morgan Freeman   146,300 (4812/day)
 * 1220   cartoon network   105275 (Cartoon Network)
 * 1230?   Perez Hilton   159,400
 * 1235   David Archuleta   154,750
 * 1237   Kevin Jonas   150,060
 * 1240   Playstation 2   150,000
 * 1241?   American Idol (season 8)   146,705
 * 1242?   Louisiana Purchase   146,369 (4799/day)
 * 1243?   Metaphor   146,339 (4798/day)
 * 1247   Michael Vick   143500
 * 1250   ?
 * 1265   Moscow   136500
 * 1270   Incest   135000
 * 1275   Snake   134073


 * 1315?   Midnight Sun (novel)   150,182 (4924/day)
 * 1320   ?   149,755 (4910/day)*
 * 1324   ?   149,420 (4899/day)*
 * 1325   Socrates   149,360 (4897/day)*
 * 1330   808s & Heartbreak   133080
 * 133x?   I Am… Sasha Fierce   129900
 * 1341   Rape   124155
 * 1373   ?   148421 (4788/day)
 * 1378   Brandon Lee   113215
 * 1386   Physics   128301

- -
 * 1401   Film   127006
 * 1405   ?   (4739/day)
 * 1431   Gene Simmons   77768
 * 1438   ?   144,815 (4671/day)
 * 1440?  Stem cell   141,520 (4640/day)
 * 1443   Death   141,030 (4624/day)
 * 1444?   E-mail or Email   140,696 (4613/day)
 * 1445?   Daniel Craig   139,293 (4568/day)
 * 1449?   Cum shot   139,110 (4561/day)
 * 1467?   John Locke   137220
 * 1470?   Diabetes   123,435
 * 1471?   Milk (film)   118950
 * 1472?   Titanic   117,650
 * 1475?   Cameron Diaz   115900
 * 1480?   Beijing       112,000
 * 1485?   Iron Man (film)   110,000
 * 1490?   Jason Earles   108,000
 * 1530?   Charlie's Angels   89,250
 * 1580?   Bollywood   134,596 (4413/day)
 * 1596   ?   138,378 (4537/day)
 * 1597   ?   136,689 (4409/day)
 * 1600   Tennis   134,440 (4408/day)
 * 1618   ?   133,498 (4377/day)
 * 1630?   Harry S. Truman   132,736 (4352/day)
 * 1890?   Blood   125,416 (4112/day)
 * 1900?   Werewolf   125,050 (4100/day)
 * 1988   We Are the World   121,847 (3995/day)
 * 1989   ?   121,817 (3994/day)
 * 2034   ?   120,871 (3963/day)
 * 3705   ?   99,172 (3200/day)
 * 4100?   Vanessa Redgrave   95,760 (3040/day)
 * 4500?   Yao Ming   83,479 (2737/day)
 * 5000?   Bobby Jindal   73,760 (2418/day)
 * 6102   ?   65,963 (2128/day)
 * 9999?   Giovanni Ribisi   56,913 (1866/day) ~

Lower interest
The articles below were read less than 20,000 times per month, lower than above, but many still attracted wide readership. Articles read less than 50x times, per month, are somewhat questionable. However, Wikipedia bases notability on sources: if a topic appeared in mainstream media, but is read less than 20 times per month, that is acceptable. Notability is not tied to popularity with readers.

Reminder about list inaccuracy
Again, for the revisions of this essay in July/November 2009, the lists of articles were thrown together within just a few days, rather than the weeks or months needed to accurately rank the more than 10,000 top articles, balanced across the whole year. The Top 1000 articles are especially skewed toward data from early-mid 2009. However, the articles below 10,000 have monthly-count figures mainly from March-May 2009, rather than collecting data for all 365 days during 2009, and dividing by 12 to calculate an "average" month.

Some entries (such as "404 error/") may be generated by bot programs. Perhaps the top 1,030 entries should be considered for the "Top 1000" articles.

Do not rely too heavily on the rank ordering of articles as shown in this essay. Rank figures are approximate for the year.

Estimating for 365 days
The data was averaged from website Grok.se (such as stats.grok.se/en/2009/Charles_Darwin); however, 8 (or more) days were not recorded for most pages, and had to be estimated. The non-recorded days were typically estimated by comparing the page-views of nearby days, but if the missing data fell on a one-event day, then that day was very difficult to estimate (such as the count with a shocking event). The missing days (non-recorded days) in the Grok database for 2009 are as follows:
 * September 23/25-27 (Wednesday/Friday-Sunday), or pages after "Speck" lack 6 days: 21/23-27
 * October 14-16 (Wednesday-Friday)
 * November 15 & 22 (Sundays)

Each Grok-webpage entry's year total (coded as "/2009/") omits all the September data, so data for "/200909/" was added into the total for each page, and the missing days were estimated as follows:
 * Sept. 23/25-27 (Wednesday/Friday-Sunday) were added as prior week Sept. 16/18-20 or averaged counts.
 * October 14-16 (Wednesday-Friday) were added as counts Oct. 7-9 or 21-23 or averaged when not a weekly cycle.
 * November 15 & 22 (Sundays) were added as the count for either similar Sunday November 8 or 29.

When the pageviews seemed to be steady for a particular title during the 12 months, then the missing days were ignored, since they would not significantly alter the average of the other 356 days of the year.

Because of the time needed to estimate the 8-11 missing days for most entries, the ranking of all entries became very tedious and took weeks to re-rank and edit. Hence, expect some estimation errors among those 8,000 to 11,000 estimated daily page-views. However, year 2009 was the first year when most entries could be easily estimated for all 365 days, because year 2008 had 20 missing days in the month of July 2008 (plus 3 missing in Jan./Nov.) which were very difficult to estimate.