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: 2026-10-26T06:34Z pageviews: 2026-08-26 → 2026-10-24 project: en.wikipedia pool: 2,448 candidates sampled: 8,905 this run: 5,000 refreshed, 568 new 28 stale (>7d old) 8,102 tracked over 14 runs
8,905articles
239.9Mviews this week
21.3Mlifetime edits
1Mreferences
29.2Mwords of prose
311.3ktranslations
15.1yaverage age
1,582protected pages

This week

Metronomes

Lowest day-to-day variation. People read these at exactly the same rate forever.

40 entries · ranked by volatility fresh data only
1 Jesus First-century Jewish preacher and religious leader 3.2% variation
2 Suicide methods Means by which a person dies by suicide 3.8% variation
3 Wordle 2021 browser game 4.1% variation
4 Soviet Union Country in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 4.8% variation
5 Ottoman Empire Former empire (c. 1299–1922) 4.8% variation
6 London Capital of England and the United Kingdom 5.2% variation
7 Dungeon Crawler Carl Speculative fiction novel series by Matt Dinniman 5.3% variation
8 List of ethnic slurs 47.6k views · 16.4k edits · 434.8 KB · 7 langs 5.3% variation
9 Sexual intercourse Penetrative sexual activity for reproduction or sexual pleasure 5.4% variation
10 Generation Z Cohort born from 1997 to 2012 5.4% variation
11 Temasek Holdings Singaporean state-owned conglomerate 5.7% variation
12 Dynatrace American technology company 5.9% variation
13 Abraham Lincoln President of the United States from 1861 to 1865 6.0% variation
14 English language West Germanic language 6.0% variation
15 Franklin D. Roosevelt President of the United States from 1933 to 1945 6.1% variation
16 Japan Country in East Asia 6.3% variation
17 Earth Third planet from the Sun 6.3% variation
18 XXXTentacion American rapper and singer-songwriter (1998–2018) 6.3% variation
19 South Africa Country in Southern Africa 6.3% variation
20 Alexander the Great King of Macedon from 336 to 323 BC 6.5% variation
21 69 (sex position) Oral sex position 6.5% variation
22 A First letter of the Latin alphabet 6.7% variation
23 Joseph Stalin Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953 6.7% variation
24 Netherlands Country in Northwestern Europe and the Caribbean 6.7% variation
25 List of countries and dependencies by population 55k views · 27k edits · 131.2 KB · 124 langs 6.8% variation
26 Taiwan Country in East Asia 6.9% variation
27 Vietnam War 1955–1975 war in Southeast Asia 7.2% variation
28 India Country in South Asia 7.4% variation
29 Russia Country in Eastern Europe and North Asia 7.5% variation
30 Poland Country in Central Europe 7.6% variation
31 Indonesia Country in Southeast Asia and Oceania 7.6% variation
32 South Korea Country in East Asia 7.7% variation
33 Albert Einstein German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955) 7.8% variation
34 Turkey Country in Southeastern Europe and West Asia 7.8% variation
35 Adolf Hitler Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945 8.1% variation
36 Hong Kong Special administrative region of China 8.3% variation
37 Anal sex Sexual activity involving the anus and rectum 8.3% variation
38 Elizabeth I Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603 8.4% variation
39 Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present) Phase since 2022 of war ongoing since 2014 8.4% variation
40 George Washington Founding Father, U.S. president from 1789 to 1797 8.7% variation
permalink · top value 3.2 % variation