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:
- Facebook, 4,390,763
- Pierre de Fermat, 2,598,684
- Jorge Luis Borges, 2,455,435
- Steve Jobs, 2,378,676
- Deaths in 2011, 2,076,487
- Google, 1,893,425
- Malapascua, 1,858,884
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes, 1,846,619
- Jersey Shore (TV series), 1,733,826
- Kim Kardashian, 1,565,668
- Lucille Ball, 1,275,989
- YouTube, 1,274,733
- Anna Hazare, 1,257,525
- Watch the Throne, 1,223,782
- United States, 1,217,676
- Adele (singer), 1,210,761
- Lil Wayne, 1,151,992
- Nicki Minaj, 1,126,004
- Eminem, 1,125,602
- Selena Gomez, 1,118,942
- Justin Bieber, 1,108,816
- Tha Carter IV, 1,094,458
- Lady Gaga, 1,084,283
- Amy Winehouse, 1,069,606
- 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:
- Amy Winehouse, 9,599,578
- Death of Caylee Anthony, 4,078,411
- Facebook, 3,380,356
- 27 Club, 3,280,642
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 3,059,512
- Harry Potter, 2,769,692
- Harry Potter (film series), 2,500,975
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, 2,356,086
- Gregor Mendel, 2,238,089
- Deaths in 2011, 2,236,539
- Google, 2,073,311
- Rupert Murdoch, 2,036,557
- Lying down game, 1,775,318
- Hope Solo, 1,609,985
- Copa América, 1,607,765
- Anders Behring Breivik, 1,495,194
- Mila Kunis, 1,449,436
- Captain America: The First Avenger, 1,387,705
- Alexander Calder, 1,366,677
- Saint Basil's Cathedral, 1,366,243
- The Dark Knight Rises, 1,350,115
- Selena Gomez, 1,324,483
- Emma Watson, 1,286,780
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 1,285,784
- 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:
- Ryan Dunn, 5,902,497
- Facebook, 3,419,865
- Les Paul, 3,331,073
- List of HTTP status codes, 2,911,523
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 2,281,717
- Deaths in 2011, 2,263,009
- June 2011 lunar eclipse, 2,178,463
- X-Men: First Class, 2,170,446
- Google, 1,983,204
- Game of Thrones, 1,914,799
- Super 8 (film), 1,857,582
- Father's Day, 1,802,539
- Anthony Weiner, 1,432,787
- Lady Gaga, 1,411,758
- Green Lantern (film), 1,387,913
- United States, 1,365,290
- Selena Gomez, 1,332,302
- Justin Bieber, 1,239,623
- Eminem, 1,202,599
- X-Men (film series), 1,188,930
- Green Lantern, 1,183,596
- Lunar eclipse, 1,177,588
- A Game of Thrones, 1,161,390
- Dirk Nowitzki, 1,150,870
- Huma Abedin, 1,134,874
