Apr 22, 2008

Know Web Traffic Data using Wikipedia

"Traffic for particular page is directly proportional to the popularity of that term on the Internet"
Wikipedia site is shown almost in the front page of the google search for almost every word searched by people.eg blogs,news,history,technology,internet etc.
Wikipedia almost has more than 2 million pages which gets massive organic traffic from google,yahoo,Msn and from other search engines.But does anyone know that how many page views or hits does wikipedia gets exactly ?
Henrik,an administrator for wikipedia has created a tool at stats.grok.se which shows how many times a particular page has been viewed on wikipedia.You can say its similar to Google analytics but this one is for public access as well.
This is real Gold mine for those creating content as the traffic for particular page is directly proportional to the popularity of that term on the Internet.
For example, Have you been searching for Jesus? On Google, Wikipedia ranks first for that search. How much is that first place ranking worth? According to Wikipedia's public traffic stats, about 14k page views on a typical day, and 19.3k on Christmas. The redirect Jesus Christ, which points to the same page, gets about 25% as much traffic, and Christ adds another 10%.
"So when are you going to create your article on wikipedia ?"

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