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.).

October 2011

In October 2011, the Wikipedia main page received 123.9 million page views, halting a three-month decline. The "404 error" page received 7.2 million views. The page for "wiki" received 3 million views. "Search" had almost 1.3 million views. The remaining top 25 intentional content pages were:

1. Steve Jobs, 13,430,655
2. Breast cancer, 5,265,649
3. Facebook, 4,016,823
4. Halloween, 3,595,582
5. Muammar Gaddafi, 3,348,226
6. Murder of Meredith Kercher, 2,594,583
7. The Aristocrats (joke), 2,295,197
8. Deaths in 2011, 2,175,709
9. Occupy Wall Street, 1,972,552
10. Mary Blair, 1,898,912
11. Art Clokey, 1,846,023
12. Sex, 1,782,038
13. Google, 1,577,028
14. Steve Wozniak, 1,571,456
15. YouTube, 1,524,294
16. The Walking Dead (TV series), 1,522,507
17. Paranormal Activity 3, 1,479,346
18. The Big Bang Theory, 1,444,124
19. Terra Nova (TV series), 1,443,904
20. Dan Wheldon, 1,404,613
21. Diwali, 1,370,681
22. Ra.One, 1,340,113
23. United States, 1,306,374
24. Kim Kardashian, 1,297,579
25. Cuisinart, 1,281,742

September 2011

Wikipedia's flagging traffic

In September 2011, the Wikipedia main page received only 112.7 million page views, down 13.6% from the previous month. The "404 error" page received 6.3 million views. The page for "wiki" received 2.6 million views. "Search" had almost 2 million views. The remaining top 25 intentional content pages were:

1. Mathematical descriptions of opacity, 5,125,722
2. Albert Szent-Györgyi, 4,347,697
3. Facebook, 3,881,469
4. September 11 attacks, 3,075,259
5. Network address translation, 3,073,272
6. Troy Davis case, 2,930,632
7. Freddie Mercury, 2,549,766
8. Google, 1,878,888
9. Deaths in 2011, 1,764,941
10. Malapascua, 1,567,202
11. World Trade Center, 1,244,432
12. Adele (singer), 1,216,504
13. YouTube, 1,200,020
14. The Big Bang Theory, 1,181,374
15. How I Met Your Mother, 1,170,501
16. Two and a Half Men, 1,132,859
17. United States, 1,106,147
18. Bodyguard (2011 film), 1,058,269
19. Sex, 1,047,777
20. Glee (TV series), 1,015,174
21. Wikipedia, 1,008,526
22. Jim Henson, 991,296
23. Lil Wayne, 965,608
24. Andy Whitfield, 937,014
25. Eminem, 923,325

August 2011

In August 2011, the Wikipedia main page received 130.5 million page views. The "404 error" page received 8.5 million views. The page for "wiki" received just under 3 million views. "Search" had almost 2.6 million views. The remaining top 25 intentional content pages were:

1. Facebook, 4,390,763
2. Pierre de Fermat, 2,598,684
3. Jorge Luis Borges, 2,455,435
4. Steve Jobs, 2,378,676
5. Deaths in 2011, 2,076,487
6. Google, 1,893,425
7. Malapascua, 1,858,884
8. Rise of the Planet of the Apes, 1,846,619
9. Jersey Shore (TV series), 1,733,826
10. Kim Kardashian, 1,565,668
11. Lucille Ball, 1,275,989
12. YouTube, 1,274,733
13. Anna Hazare, 1,257,525
14. Watch the Throne, 1,223,782
15. United States, 1,217,676
16. Adele (singer), 1,210,761
17. Lil Wayne, 1,151,992
18. Nicki Minaj, 1,126,004
19. Eminem, 1,125,602
20. Selena Gomez, 1,118,942
21. Justin Bieber, 1,108,816
22. Tha Carter IV, 1,094,458
23. Lady Gaga, 1,084,283
24. Amy Winehouse, 1,069,606
25. Wikipedia, 1,061,782

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