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  • http://stats.grok.se/ - Data collection stopped on 21 January 2016. Can be used for viewing older per-page statistics.

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Situations where the counts have been obviously in error, possibly because of a program accessing an article a large multiple number of times, and not reflecting actual users.

  • The stats for the 3rd and 4th of March missed some hours entirely, so those two days are omitted.
  • Canine reproduction went from a steady 450 views a day to a steady 170,000 views per day for about two weeks, then dropped to 8,800 views per day.
  • Newton went from a steady 1.5 to 3 k views per day to over 300,000 views for one day only.
  • Resolution normally gets viewed about 500 to 1,000 times a day, was hit 300,000 times a day for three days (same program that hit Newton?).
  • Lambda calculus normally gets viewed about 400 to 800 times a day, was hit 130,000 times on 31 March/1st April.

There are also examples where an article actually receives a large number of views on one day because of media attention. Examples of that are Superdelegate and Julie Dubela, and most weekly TV shows such as American Idol. Heath Ledger went from 4,000 views to 2 million the day after his death and has been steadily tapering off since. Articles that are featured on the Main page clearly get a lot of views because of that exposure such as Xenon which was a featured article on February 10th. Valentine's Day got 1.1 million views on, well, Valentine's Day.