Wikipedia:Traffic
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See Wikipedia:Statistics and Wikipedia:Milestones.
A proper explanation of hits vs. files served vs. pages served needs to go here. The effect of the new page-caching code on measured traffic should also be explained.
Alexa.com independently compiles traffic ranking figures. For regular tracking of this information, see Wikipedia:Awareness statistics.
- See also Wikimedia Traffic comparison
Some late 2002 / early 2003 daily traffic figures for the English-language Wikipedia in hits/day:
- note the apparent 7-day cycle, as well as
- the one-off boost on September 11, 2002, the anniversary of the New York terrorist attacks, when many queries were made regarding topics related to the attacks.
- traffic in January 2003 was well down on previous traffic, due to a problem with robots.txt causing Google to lose most Wikipedia pages from its index; this problem has now been fixed, and the Google index should start to pick up new pages as the site is spidered
Traffic data is measured in hits per day for each 24-hour period, from 00:00:00 UTC to 23:59:99 UTC.
Data set for the graph above:
2003 traffic data
[edit]2003 Jan 01, 153536 2003 Jan 02, 199442 2003 Jan 03, 215752 2003 Jan 04, 119583
2003 Jan 06, 130032 2003 Jan 07, 151027 2003 Jan 08, 180543 2003 Jan 09, 188562 2003 Jan 10, 141881 2003 Jan 11, 210633
2003 Feb 19, 183900 2003 Feb 20, 198233 2003 Feb 21, 209976 2003 Feb 22, 164776 2003 Feb 23, 169201 2003 Feb 24, 199651 2003 Feb 25, 238234 2003 Feb 26, 230582 2003 Feb 27, 213807 2003 Feb 28, 193870 2003 Mar 01, 170235 2003 Mar 04, 206824 2003 Mar 05, 178290 2003 Mar 06, 178856 2003 Mar 07, 195111 2003 Mar 08, 169019 2003 Mar 09, 179610 2003 Mar 10, 246672 2003 Mar 11, 286787, big slowdown on this day 2003 Mar 12, 316539, back to over 300k, problems with timeouts 2003 Mar 13, 302237, traffic is way back up again!
Average hits per hour in the period Aug 25 2002 - Sep 20 2002
Data for this graph:
hours, avg hits/hour 00, 8680 01, 8278 02, 8169 03, 7902 04, 7730 05, 7221 06, 7763 07, 7413 08, 7804 09, 8080 10, 7948 11, 7851 12, 8743 13, 9743 14, 9998 15, 10125 16, 10317 17, 10950 18, 10778 19, 10084 20, 9676 21, 9010 22, 8806 22, 8806 23, 8637
Notes
[edit]September 4, 2002: Server load average is currently running at between 5 and 6.
7:00am up 55 days, 24 min, 2 users, load average: 4.46, 5.64, 5.85
September 11, 2002:
On the first anniversary of the WTC attacks, the server was running at 13786 hits/hour in the period 20020911 20:00 to 20:59. If running continuously at this rate, this would equate to a daily hit rate of 330000 hits/day. (Note that the actual whole-day traffic for this day was only 260034 hits.) The server struggled to keep pace with the load on this day.
A few representative "uptime" results for September 11, 2002:
9:25pm up 5 days, 17:48, 1 user, load average: 4.60, 9.68, 13.22 9:34pm up 5 days, 17:56, 2 users, load average: 9.57, 8.64, 10.83 9:34pm up 5 days, 17:57, 2 users, load average: 12.76, 9.38, 11.02 9:34pm up 5 days, 17:57, 2 users, load average: 18.07, 10.80, 11.44 9:35pm up 5 days, 17:58, 2 users, load average: 19.50, 12.29, 11.93 9:40pm up 5 days, 18:03, 2 users, load average: 3.80, 7.92, 10.22 9:41pm up 5 days, 18:04, 2 users, load average: 4.96, 7.74, 10.06
In the minute 20020911 20:35, the server served 305 hits, a rate of just over 5 hits per second sustained, equivalent to a sustained rate of just under 440,000 hits/day. It did this at a loadav of around 19, rather than the typical loadav of 5 or 6.
Top traffic sources
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A snapshot of the top 100 of who is sending traffic to Wikipedia. This is for about a week, ending September 6, 2002:
49816 www.google.com
17809 google.yahoo.com
7098 search.msn.com
3178 aolsearch.aol.com
3154 www.google.ca
2096 auto.search.msn.com
1938 www.altavista.com
1703 www.bomis.com
1576 www.google.co.uk
1247 www.google.de
1236 search.netscape.com
902 images.google.com
747 www.askjeeves.com
679 search.yahoo.com
651 www.ask.com
588 www.google.fr
535 www.google.it
493 www.google.nl
442 www.necrohiphop.com
438 search.ninemsn.com.au
391 www.google.co.nz
381 srd.yahoo.com
381 uk.google.yahoo.com
308 216.239.51.100
296 216.239.35.120
291 search.aol.com
278 websearch.cs.com
278 216.239.39.120
265 www.google.com.br
253 www.google.co.jp
246 www.google.be
244 search.earthlink.net
233 search.dogpile.com
224 hotbot.lycos.com
219 www.google.ch
216 search2.cometsystems.com
197 www.neopets.com
195 aolsearch.aol.co.uk
194 www.flavatown.com
177 search.metacrawler.com
177 ca.google.yahoo.com
176 216.239.33.100
170 216.239.39.100
168 search.iwon.com
168 www.ask.co.uk
164 216.239.35.100
162 search.xtramsn.co.nz
162 askjeeves.com
156 ask.com
151 wikipedia.org
146 au.google.yahoo.com
144 search.t1msn.com.mx
143 www.google.co.kr
143 216.239.37.100
142 search.sli.sympatico.ca
138 pub116.ezboard.com
134 pub6.ezboard.com
134 www.ifind.freeserve.com
133 www.nicenet.org
132 altavista.com
130 notizie.virgilio.it
127 www.google.com.pl
124 www.overture.com
123 www.pcworld.dk
120 216.239.53.100
115 search.msn.co.uk
109 www.google.cl
105 search.msn.de
105 www.google.at
105 search.virgilio.it
102 www.elderscrolls.com
101 search.msn.ca
99 dir.yahoo.com
99 www.aj.com
99 search.cometsystems.com
97 uk.search.msn.com
97 carbon.cudenver.edu
97 www.google.ie
89 www.google.com.ar
87 webferret.search.com
87 search.lycos.com
85 partners.search.msn.com
80 www.elmundo.es
78 uk.altavista.com
74 ww.google.com
72 pub124.ezboard.com
71 au.altavista.com
71 www.bbc.co.uk
71 synd-uk.looksmart.co.uk
70 www.alltheweb.com
69 ask.directhit.com
68 www.looksmart.com
64 www.kuro5hin.org
60 directory.google.com
58 www.09-11-01.com
58 www.eduseek.com
57 www.attbi.com
57 images.google.de
57 ref.spoof.org
57 au.search.yahoo.com
56 www.elbnet.com
56 pub70.ezboard.com
52 www.customcivics.com
51 search.about.com
48 srch.overture.com
47 www.asianavenue.com
47 s.teoma.com
47 www.att.net
46 courses.cmsu.edu
46 pub69.ezboard.com
45 sg.google.yahoo.com
44 www.foxnews.com
43 www.search.com
40 vivisimo.com
40 www.coping.org
40 nice.purrsia.com
39 edis.win.tue.nl
38 www.salon.com
38 search.msn.es
37 it.altavista.com
37 www.maxheadroom.com
36 dmoz.org
36 www.searchalot.com
36 slashdot.org
35 radaruol.uol.com.br
34 www.beepworld.de
34 www.hackles.org
33 search.msn.com.br
33 enciclopedia.us.es
33 msxml.excite.com
32 ca.search.msn.com
31 query.nytimes.com
30 rr.looksmart.com
30 www.worldnet.att.net
30 www.google.com.
30 ixquick.com
30 swww.ee.uwa.edu.au
29 altavista.onet.pl
29 search.msn.it
28 aolsearch.aol.ca
27 www.google.lt
27 search.latam.yupimsn.com
26 pub65.ezboard.com
26 search.rediff.com
26 din-timelines.com
26 directory.mozilla.org
26 www.abisource.com
26 aj.com
25 www.geocities.com
25 www.bonzi.com
25 www.cu2.nl
25 www.google.co.il
25 www.google.com.ru
25 www.why-is-the-sky-blue.org
25 www.jdmuniverse.com
24 babelfish.altavista.com
23 www.cs.okstate.edu
23 barrapunto.com
23 search.lycos.co.uk
23 search.msn.dk
23 www.nupedia.com
23 de.altavista.com
22 fr.altavista.com
22 www.levenez.com
22 casagato.net
22 www.voicesofsept11.org
22 eps.new.search.new.net
22 WWW.GOOGLE.COM
21 science.slashdot.org
21 web.toile.com
21 search.msn.no
21 foxnews.com
21 jeays.net
20 www.osnews.com
20 forum.fok.nl
20 library.trinity.wa.edu.au
20 www.s-cc.de
19 sasd.k12.pa.us
19 www.profusion.com
19 search.msn.se
19 translate.google.com
19 szukaj.wp.pl
18 f17.parsimony.net
18 cnn.looksmart.com
18 www.leifang.com
18 www.tldp.org
18 www.tolearnenglish.com
18 www.gnu.org
18 images.google.cl
18 lawcrawler.findlaw.com
17 ces.oingo.com
17 meta.wikipedia.com
17 kosmoi.com
17 search.msn.fr
17 www.partypeeps2000.com
17 misshoover.si.umich.edu
17 babel.altavista.com
17 www.sasd.k12.pa.us
17 groups.google.com
17 bomis.com
16 www.mars.dti.ne.jp
16 www.Wikipedia.com
16 search.evreka.passagen.se
15 groups.yahoo.com
15 ie.altavista.com
15 www.concatenum.com
15 amuzulo.babil.komputilo.org
15 www.freesticky.com
15 216.239.35.206
14 susning.nu
14 images.google.it
14 se.altavista.com
14 144.16.75.84
14 www.3apes.com
14 search.msn.nl
14 www.whatreallyhappened.com
14 facstaff.buffalostate.edu
13 www.surviveanuclearattack.com
13 search.aol.co.uk
13 www.objectivism.addr.com
13 dpxml.webcrawler.com
13 localhost
12 www.iaea.org
12 alltheweb.com
12 search.megaspider.com
12 www.agnitum.com)
12 wikipedia.com
12 www.sudanforum.net
12 newssearch.bbc.co.uk
12 www.geometry.net
12 click.lycos.com
12 foros.realidadalternativa.com
12 www.marsearthconnection.com
11 64.4.16.250
11 www.freesoftware.fsf.org
11 c2.com
11 search1-2.free.fr
11 images.google.ca
11 search.supereva.it
11 www.zpub.com
11 search.msn.co.in
11 www.abc.se
11 forum.mokkels.nl
10 nbsearch.blueyonder.co.uk
10 pub112.ezboard.com
10 hackles.org
10 www.dslreports.com
10 www.personal.psu.edu
10 130.94.122.197:80
10 www.usemod.com
10 www.sn.azmm
10 www.mansioningles.com
10 ocn.amikai.com
10 www.google.co.cr
10 us.f404.mail.yahoo.com