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.).

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

23. Adele_(singer) 1,210,761

24. Lil_Wayne 1,151,992

25. Nicki_Minaj 1,126,004

26. Eminem 1,125,602

27. Selena_Gomez 1,118,942

28. Justin_Bieber 1,108,816

29. Tha_Carter_IV 1,094,458

30. Lady_Gaga 1,084,283

31. Amy_Winehouse 1,069,606

32. Wikipedia 1,061,782

33. The_Glee_Project 1,043,596

34. Emma_Stone 1,022,572

35. Mila_Kunis 990,949

36. Sex 982,557

37. Harry_Potter 974,806

38. Steve_Wozniak 964,072

39. Jan_Lokpal_Bill 962,433

40. Muammar_Gaddafi 956,311

41. Kris_Humphries 945,316

42. Glee_(TV_series) 936,944

43. Art_Bears 929,969

44. Game_of_Thrones 921,246

45. Planet_of_the_Apes_(1968_film) 898,852

46. Rick_Perry 895,763

47. How_I_Met_Your_Mother 893,170

48. Captain_America:_The_First_Avenger 890,683

49. Philadelphia_Eagles 881,716

50. The_Avengers_(2012_film) 878,795

51. 2011_in_film 866,753

52. True_Blood 854,633

53. UFC_134 850,028

54. Ramadan 841,887

55. Harry_Potter_(film_series) 826,956

56. The_Dark_Knight_Rises 817,867

57. Beyoncé_Knowles 813,730

58. India 800,637

59. Manche 791,338

60. Final_Destination_5 780,141

61. Canada 770,806

62. Jack_Layton 764,898

63. United_Kingdom 749,678

64. Mark_Zuckerberg 747,913

65. Katy_Perry 745,636

66. 2011_England_riots 740,653

67. West_Memphis_Three 735,078

68. Hurricane_Irene_(2011) 732,714

69. Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows_–_Part_2 730,488

70. Drake_(entertainer) 730,171

71. Jay-Z 730,118

72. Arsenal_F.C. 724,222

73. Red_Hot_Chili_Peppers 716,522

74. UFC_133 713,343

75. Entourage_(TV_series) 707,254

76. The_Big_Bang_Theory 697,292

77. Pretty_Little_Liars_(TV_series) 694,741

78. Anonymous_(group) 691,191

79. Two_and_a_Half_Men 684,966

80. Android_(operating_system) 682,508

81. 2011_Libyan_civil_war 681,181

82. Transformers:_Dark_of_the_Moon 672,226

83. Rihanna 667,906

84. Hurricane_Katrina 666,370

85. Planking_(fad) 662,083

86. Australia 659,406

87. Anne_Hathaway_(actress) 657,241

88. Jackie_Chan 649,625

89. Human_penis_size 648,623

90. Internet_Movie_Database 647,705

91. Genie_(feral_child) 646,685

92. Barack_Obama 643,311

93. Deus_Ex:_Human_Revolution 633,215

94. The_Inbetweeners 631,010

95. Planet_of_the_Apes_(2001_film) 629,538

96. Cowboys_&_Aliens_(film) 628,617

97. Demi_Lovato 624,824

98. Michele_Bachmann 624,169

99. Michael_Jackson 622,073

100. Dexter_(TV_series) 622,012

101. Apollo_18 619,649

102. Adolf_Hitler 618,057

103. List_of_Top_Gear_episodes 615,151

104. Manchester_United_F.C. 606,596

105. Kanye_West 604,312

106. Youtube 603,238

107. Illuminati 600,648

108. 2011_London_riots 598,916

109. Libya 596,164

110. Olivia_Wilde 587,679

111. Tyler,_The_Creator 582,005

112. Mad_Men 580,076

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