Wikipedia articles rank on the front page of Google for almost every known term be it American Idol, Blogs, iPod, SEO or Britney Spears.
No wonder, Wikipedia pages (that number more than 2 million) get huge organic traffic from Google and other search engines. But how do you find out the exact page views (or hits) that any Wikipedia entry receives per day ?
Using the raw server logs from Wikistats, Wikipedia administrator Henrik has created a tool at stats.grok.se that shows how many times any particular page has been viewed on Wikipedia. It’s something like Google Analytics for Wikipedia with public access.
This could be a gold mine for content creators because traffic on individual Wikipedia articles is often directly proportional to the popularity of that term on the Internet. For instance, Notebook and Laptop are basically the same thing but more people prefer to use the term Laptop over Notebook.
And this is much better than Google Trends, BlogPulse or any other buzz tracking service because here you know the exact numbers, not relative data. (Read: "How to Track Wikipedia Articles")
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/wikipedia-hits-daily-page-views-wikistats/2535/
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Reader Comments
That is just AMAZING! Amit, how do you find such pearls, which you are posting on Labnol blog, among billions of Internet dust?
I tried it immediately and it works perfect!!!
Written by curt on 05.04.08
Yes its correct, Wikipedia is not at top position not only for popular keywords but it comes at 1st postion in google.com for less poplular like bluetooth dongle, definition, etc.
Even Wikistats proved very helpful to editors to write articles on various topic.
Thanks
Written by Brodit on 05.13.08
Actually, notebook and laptop “are basically the same thing” only for one meaning of the word notebook. It has a much older meaning. But laptop is unambiguous, which probably explains why people prefer that term.
Written by Daz on 02.24.09