Wikipedia Stats

Every article measured six ways — pageviews, length, references, edits, age and language coverage — then ranked by whatever seemed most interesting, including several things nobody asked for.

source: wikistats.json generated: 2026-10-22T06:32Z pageviews: 2026-08-22 → 2026-10-20 project: en.wikipedia pool: 2,117 candidates sampled: 8,331 this run: 5,000 refreshed, 508 new 30 stale (>7d old) 7,658 tracked over 13 runs
8,331articles
229.6Mviews this week
20.3Mlifetime edits
966.5kreferences
27.4Mwords of prose
294ktranslations
15.1yaverage age
1,509protected pages

This week

One-Hit Wonders

Peak day divided by average day. A tall thin needle of attention and then nothing.

40 entries · ranked by spike ratio fresh data only
1 Sitee 1993 Maldivian film 57.31x average
2 London Monster Eighteenth-century criminal 56.81x average
3 Statue of John Gorrie Statue in the United States Capitol 56.43x average
4 Ernst Frey Austrian-Vietnamese soldier (1915–1994) 56.29x average
5 Saint Napoleon Saint and festival in the French Empires 55.84x average
6 2026 Port Shuaiba drone attack 2026 Iranian drone strike in Kuwait 55.14x average
7 Lose/Lose 2009 art video game 55.01x average
8 International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology Predatory open access journal (2012-) 53.45x average
9 Cindy Starfall Vietnamese pornographic film actress and model (b. 1989 or 1990) 53.23x average
10 2026 Alberta referendum Canadian provincial referendums 52.95x average
11 USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) US Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier 52.89x average
12 T24 Festival 2012 tent-pitching event in South Korea 52.82x average
13 Bernard Boursicot French diplomat (born 1944) 50.43x average
14 Rachel Jupp British television producer (born 1977) 50.14x average
15 Gay bomb Hypothetical psychochemical weapon 49.84x average
16 Theory of mind Ability to attribute mental states to oneself and others 48.05x average
17 GBU-43/B MOAB American large-yield bomb 48.02x average
18 Evilstick Toy wand 47.94x average
19 Daniel and Luis Moncada Honduran-American actors (born 1980 and 1977) 47.91x average
20 George Krugers Dutch East Indies filmmaker (1890–1964) 47.58x average
21 Guntur Soekarnoputra Eldest son of President Sukarno (born 1944) 47.19x average
22 Ancient Cappadocian language Unattested extinct language of Anatolia 47.16x average
23 Larger Pacific striped octopus Species of octopus 47.06x average
24 Gabe Reid American football player (born 1977) 46.95x average
25 Nongqawuse Xhosa prophet (c. 1841–1898) 46.81x average
26 Sarah Goodridge American artist (1788–1853) 46.80x average
27 Operation Whalers 2005 U.S. military operation during the War in Afghanistan 46.57x average
28 Operation Migration Bird conservation organization (1994–2018) 46.24x average
29 Displacement after Hurricane Katrina 318 views · 128 edits · 19.4 KB · 1 langs 46.13x average
30 Alison Frantz American archaeologist (1903–1995) 45.69x average
31 Kevin O'Halloran Australian freestyle swimmer (1937–1976) 45.63x average
32 RAAF area commands Royal Australian Air Force command system 45.52x average
33 Crash at Crush 1896 rail crash publicity stunt in Texas, USA 45.52x average
34 Luke McCaffrey American football player (born 2001) 45.41x average
35 White-headed fruit dove Species of bird endemic to Solomon Islands 45.27x average
36 Erin Scavino American model, attorney (born 1978/1979) 45.18x average
37 Beauty Revealed 1828 painting by Sarah Goodridge 44.92x average
38 Noemvriana 1916 political dispute and conflict 44.86x average
39 Toyohiro Akiyama Japanese television journalist and cosmonaut (1942–2026) 44.78x average
40 Menches 2nd-century BC Egyptian scribe 44.74x average
permalink · top value 57.31 x average