Wikimedia page views
For the curious, here’s some statistics I whipped up the other day from our sampled logs. These are counts of plain article page views on all of Wikimedia’s wikis, from about three days’ worth of a 1/1000-sampled log. Images, style sheets, edit actions, diffs, special pages, etc are excluded.
I’ve broken it down by referrer, with some rough groupings. It’s not very scientific, but some might find it interesting. 
We should be able to process similar statistics on an automated basis from the log server now that we’ve got it set up, including breakdowns by site and by language.
| Referrer | Samples | Percentage | Daily extrapolation | Monthly extrapolation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| total | 71873 | 100.0000 | 233,610,232 | 7,008,306,975 |
| in-wiki link | 31512 | 43.8440 | 102,424,076 | 3,072,722,293 |
| 17102 | 23.7947 | 55,586,969 | 1,667,609,059 | |
| no referrer | 11873 | 16.5194 | 38,591,047 | 1,157,731,397 |
| IE7 gadget | 3862 | 5.3734 | 12,552,735 | 376,582,048 |
| other Wikimedia | 2174 | 3.0248 | 7,066,195 | 211,985,855 |
| in-wiki search | 2140 | 2.9775 | 6,955,684 | 208,670,529 |
| Yahoo | 1507 | 2.0968 | 4,898,232 | 146,946,957 |
| other | 1162 | 1.6167 | 3,776,872 | 113,306,147 |
| MSN | 208 | 0.2894 | 676,067 | 20,281,995 |
| Live | 189 | 0.2630 | 614,310 | 18,429,313 |
| AOL | 84 | 0.1169 | 273,027 | 8,190,806 |
| Ask | 39 | 0.0543 | 126,762 | 3,802,874 |
| AltaVista | 21 | 0.0292 | 68,257 | 2,047,701 |
June 7th, 2007 at 10:12 am
is it statistics only for Eglish Wikipedia?
June 10th, 2007 at 3:18 am
What amazes me is that AltaVista still shows up at all. Are they selling someone search services or something?
June 12th, 2007 at 8:36 am
Is the data aggregated from all wikimedia languages/countries, or just English?
June 12th, 2007 at 10:50 am
Interesting enough for MSN and Live where it is quite equal.
Can we get if it was google.com or google per language or country ?
June 13th, 2007 at 12:20 am
OMG..7 billion.
June 13th, 2007 at 7:19 am
Where do people come from? The answer is Google, mostly.
No surprises here. In fact, I thought the Google numbers were low until I remembered there that this table doesn’t exclude internal traffic from other Wikipedia-related pages (rows #1, #5, #6).
Note that no non-search sites made the short list. As much as Wikipedia is linked to by other sites, the traffic from these links are negligible (something less than 1.6%) compared to the traffic arriving from searches.
Cross-posted from http://www.matthewsim.com/weblog/
June 19th, 2007 at 11:09 am
in-wiki means interwiki or inside the given wiki?
thanks
August 30th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
I interpret “in-wiki” to me traffic arriving on a Wikipedia from another Wikipedia page.
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:07 am
What about those automated statistics? Are they up and running somewhere?
January 14th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Not running since Oct. 04, but the data until then can be found here: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesUsageVisits.htm