Wikipedia's most viewed pages

The English Wikipedia project maintains server records of pageview (traffic) statistics. This page tallies the 25 most-viewed article pages on Wikipedia, by month, while removing the superfluous pages that users end up viewing as a result of landing on an unintended page (such as "wiki", "Wikipedia", "search", etc.).

July 2011

In July 2011, the Wikipedia main page received 138.3 million page views. The "404 error" page received 10 million views. The page for "wiki" received just under 3 million views. "Search" had 2.3 million views. The remaining top 25 intentional content pages were:

1. Amy Winehouse, 9,599,578
2. Death of Caylee Anthony, 4,078,411
3. Facebook, 3,380,356
4. 27 Club, 3,280,642
5. Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 3,059,512
6. Harry Potter, 2,769,692
7. Harry Potter (film series), 2,500,975
8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, 2,356,086
9. Gregor Mendel, 2,238,089
10. Deaths in 2011, 2,236,539
11. Google, 2,073,311
12. Rupert Murdoch, 2,036,557
13. Lying down game, 1,775,318
14. Hope Solo, 1,609,985
15. Copa América, 1,607,765
16. Anders Behring Breivik, 1,495,194
17. Mila Kunis, 1,449,436
18. Captain America: The First Avenger, 1,387,705
19. Alexander Calder, 1,366,677
20. Saint Basil's Cathedral, 1,366,243
21. The Dark Knight Rises, 1,350,115
22. Selena Gomez, 1,324,483
23. Emma Watson, 1,286,780
24. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 1,285,784
25. United States, 1,218,849

June 2011

In June 2011, the Wikipedia main page received 152.5 million page views. The "404 error" page received over 11 million views. The page for "wiki" received just under 3 million views. "Search" had 1.9 million views. The remaining top 25 intentional content pages were:

1. Ryan Dunn, 5,902,497
2. Facebook, 3,419,865
3. Les Paul, 3,331,073
4. List of HTTP status codes, 2,911,523
5. Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 2,281,717
6. Deaths in 2011, 2,263,009
7. June 2011 lunar eclipse, 2,178,463
8. X-Men: First Class, 2,170,446
9. Google, 1,983,204
10. Game of Thrones, 1,914,799
11. Super 8 (film), 1,857,582
12. Father's Day, 1,802,539
13. Anthony Weiner, 1,432,787
14. Lady Gaga, 1,411,758
15. Green Lantern (film), 1,387,913
16. United States, 1,365,290
17. Selena Gomez, 1,332,302
18. Justin Bieber, 1,239,623
19. Eminem, 1,202,599
20. X-Men (film series), 1,188,930
21. Green Lantern, 1,183,596
22. Lunar eclipse, 1,177,588
23. A Game of Thrones, 1,161,390
24. Dirk Nowitzki, 1,150,870
25. Huma Abedin, 1,134,874