Wikipedia:Traffic

See Statistics and Milestones.

A proper explanation of hits vs. files served vs. pages served needs to go here. The effect of the new page-caching code on measured traffic should also be explained.

Alexa.com independently compiles traffic ranking figures. For regular tracking of this information, see Awareness statistics.


 * See also Wikimedia Traffic comparison

Some late 2002 / early 2003 daily traffic figures for the English-language Wikipedia in hits/day:
 * note the apparent 7-day cycle, as well as
 * the one-off boost on September 11, 2002, the anniversary of the New York terrorist attacks, when many queries were made regarding topics related to the attacks.
 * traffic in January 2003 was well down on previous traffic, due to a problem with robots.txt causing Google to lose most Wikipedia pages from its index; this problem has now been fixed, and the Google index should start to pick up new pages as the site is spidered



Traffic data is measured in hits per day for each 24-hour period, from 00:00:00 UTC to 23:59:99 UTC.

Data set for the graph above:
 * See Traffic/2002 traffic data

2003 traffic data
2003 Jan 01, 153536 2003 Jan 02, 199442 2003 Jan 03, 215752 2003 Jan 04, 119583

2003 Jan 06, 130032 2003 Jan 07, 151027 2003 Jan 08, 180543 2003 Jan 09, 188562 2003 Jan 10, 141881 2003 Jan 11, 210633

2003 Feb 19, 183900 2003 Feb 20, 198233 2003 Feb 21, 209976 2003 Feb 22, 164776 2003 Feb 23, 169201 2003 Feb 24, 199651 2003 Feb 25, 238234 2003 Feb 26, 230582 2003 Feb 27, 213807 2003 Feb 28, 193870 2003 Mar 01, 170235 2003 Mar 04, 206824 2003 Mar 05, 178290 2003 Mar 06, 178856 2003 Mar 07, 195111 2003 Mar 08, 169019 2003 Mar 09, 179610 2003 Mar 10, 246672 2003 Mar 11, 286787, big slowdown on this day 2003 Mar 12, 316539, back to over 300k, problems with timeouts 2003 Mar 13, 302237, traffic is way back up again!

Average hits per hour in the period Aug 25 2002 - Sep 20 2002



Data for this graph:

hours, avg hits/hour 00, 8680 01, 8278 02, 8169 03, 7902 04, 7730 05, 7221 06, 7763 07, 7413 08, 7804 09, 8080 10, 7948 11, 7851 12, 8743 13, 9743 14, 9998 15, 10125 16, 10317 17, 10950 18, 10778 19, 10084 20, 9676 21, 9010 22, 8806 22, 8806 23, 8637

Top traffic sources


A snapshot of the top 100 of who is sending traffic to Wikipedia. This is for about a week, ending September 6, 2002:

49816 www.google.com 17809 google.yahoo.com 7098 search.msn.com 3178 aolsearch.aol.com 3154 www.google.ca   2096 auto.search.msn.com 1938 www.altavista.com 1703 www.bomis.com 1576 www.google.co.uk   1247 www.google.de    1236 search.netscape.com 902 images.google.com 747 www.askjeeves.com 679 search.yahoo.com 651 www.ask.com 588 www.google.fr    535 www.google.it     493 www.google.nl     442 www.necrohiphop.com 438 search.ninemsn.com.au    391 www.google.co.nz     381 srd.yahoo.com 381 uk.google.yahoo.com 308 216.239.51.100    296 216.239.35.120     291 search.aol.com 278 websearch.cs.com 278 216.239.39.120    265 www.google.com.br     253 www.google.co.jp     246 www.google.be     244 search.earthlink.net 233 search.dogpile.com 224 hotbot.lycos.com 219 www.google.ch    216 search2.cometsystems.com 197 www.neopets.com 195 aolsearch.aol.co.uk    194 www.flavatown.com 177 search.metacrawler.com 177 ca.google.yahoo.com 176 216.239.33.100    170 216.239.39.100     168 search.iwon.com 168 www.ask.co.uk    164 216.239.35.100 162 search.xtramsn.co.nz    162 askjeeves.com 156 ask.com 151 wikipedia.org 146 au.google.yahoo.com 144 search.t1msn.com.mx    143 www.google.co.kr     143 216.239.37.100 142 search.sli.sympatico.ca    138 pub116.ezboard.com 134 pub6.ezboard.com 134 www.ifind.freeserve.com 133 www.nicenet.org 132 altavista.com 130 notizie.virgilio.it    127 www.google.com.pl     124 www.overture.com 123 www.pcworld.dk    120 216.239.53.100 115 search.msn.co.uk    109 www.google.cl     105 search.msn.de     105 www.google.at     105 search.virgilio.it     102 www.elderscrolls.com 101 search.msn.ca     99 dir.yahoo.com 99 www.aj.com 99 search.cometsystems.com 97 uk.search.msn.com 97 carbon.cudenver.edu 97 www.google.ie     89 www.google.com.ar      87 webferret.search.com 87 search.lycos.com 85 partners.search.msn.com 80 www.elmundo.es     78 uk.altavista.com 74 ww.google.com 72 pub124.ezboard.com 71 au.altavista.com 71 www.bbc.co.uk     71 synd-uk.looksmart.co.uk      70 www.alltheweb.com 69 ask.directhit.com 68 www.looksmart.com 64 www.kuro5hin.org 60 directory.google.com 58 www.09-11-01.com 58 www.eduseek.com 57 www.attbi.com 57 images.google.de     57 ref.spoof.org 57 au.search.yahoo.com 56 www.elbnet.com 56 pub70.ezboard.com 52 www.customcivics.com 51 search.about.com 48 srch.overture.com 47 www.asianavenue.com 47 s.teoma.com 47 www.att.net 46 courses.cmsu.edu 46 pub69.ezboard.com 45 sg.google.yahoo.com 44 www.foxnews.com 43 www.search.com 40 vivisimo.com 40 www.coping.org 40 nice.purrsia.com 39 edis.win.tue.nl     38 www.salon.com 38 search.msn.es     37 it.altavista.com 37 www.maxheadroom.com 36 dmoz.org 36 www.searchalot.com 36 slashdot.org 35 radaruol.uol.com.br     34 www.beepworld.de      34 www.hackles.org 33 search.msn.com.br     33 enciclopedia.us.es      33 msxml.excite.com 32 ca.search.msn.com 31 query.nytimes.com 30 rr.looksmart.com 30 www.worldnet.att.net 30 www.google.com. 30 ixquick.com 30 swww.ee.uwa.edu.au     29 altavista.onet.pl      29 search.msn.it      28 aolsearch.aol.ca      27 www.google.lt      27 search.latam.yupimsn.com 26 pub65.ezboard.com 26 search.rediff.com 26 din-timelines.com 26 directory.mozilla.org 26 www.abisource.com 26 aj.com 25 www.geocities.com 25 www.bonzi.com 25 www.cu2.nl     25 www.google.co.il      25 www.google.com.ru      25 www.why-is-the-sky-blue.org 25 www.jdmuniverse.com 24 babelfish.altavista.com 23 www.cs.okstate.edu 23 barrapunto.com 23 search.lycos.co.uk     23 search.msn.dk      23 www.nupedia.com 23 de.altavista.com 22 fr.altavista.com 22 www.levenez.com 22 casagato.net 22 www.voicesofsept11.org 22 eps.new.search.new.net 22 WWW.GOOGLE.COM 21 science.slashdot.org 21 web.toile.com 21 search.msn.no     21 foxnews.com 21 jeays.net 20 www.osnews.com 20 forum.fok.nl     20 library.trinity.wa.edu.au      20 www.s-cc.de      19 sasd.k12.pa.us      19 www.profusion.com 19 search.msn.se     19 translate.google.com 19 szukaj.wp.pl     18 f17.parsimony.net 18 cnn.looksmart.com 18 www.leifang.com 18 www.tldp.org 18 www.tolearnenglish.com 18 www.gnu.org 18 images.google.cl     18 lawcrawler.findlaw.com 17 ces.oingo.com 17 meta.wikipedia.com 17 kosmoi.com 17 search.msn.fr     17 www.partypeeps2000.com 17 misshoover.si.umich.edu 17 babel.altavista.com 17 www.sasd.k12.pa.us     17 groups.google.com 17 bomis.com 16 www.mars.dti.ne.jp     16 www.Wikipedia.com 16 search.evreka.passagen.se     15 groups.yahoo.com 15 ie.altavista.com 15 www.concatenum.com 15 amuzulo.babil.komputilo.org 15 www.freesticky.com 15 216.239.35.206     14 susning.nu      14 images.google.it      14 se.altavista.com 14 144.16.75.84     14 www.3apes.com 14 search.msn.nl     14 www.whatreallyhappened.com 14 facstaff.buffalostate.edu 13 www.surviveanuclearattack.com 13 search.aol.co.uk     13 www.objectivism.addr.com 13 dpxml.webcrawler.com 13 localhost 12 www.iaea.org 12 alltheweb.com 12 search.megaspider.com 12 www.agnitum.com)     12 wikipedia.com      12 www.sudanforum.net      12 newssearch.bbc.co.uk      12 www.geometry.net      12 click.lycos.com      12 foros.realidadalternativa.com      12 www.marsearthconnection.com      11 64.4.16.250      11 www.freesoftware.fsf.org      11 c2.com      11 search1-2.free.fr      11 images.google.ca      11 search.supereva.it      11 www.zpub.com      11 search.msn.co.in      11 www.abc.se      11 forum.mokkels.nl      10 nbsearch.blueyonder.co.uk      10 pub112.ezboard.com      10 hackles.org      10 www.dslreports.com      10 www.personal.psu.edu      10 130.94.122.197:80      10 www.usemod.com      10 www.sn.azmm      10 www.mansioningles.com      10 ocn.amikai.com      10 www.google.co.cr      10 us.f404.mail.yahoo.com