Wikipedia:Most read articles in 2009

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This essay, "Most-read articles in 2009" (or Most-viewed articles in 2009), is an averaged ranking, based on various Wikipedia article traffic statistics (revised 13 March 2010),^[1] gathered informally all during 2009. Listed, in separate groups, are: the Top 1000 articles (below), then many of the top 10,000 articles, followed by scattered counts for other, various, popular articles (ranked by monthly interest below 20,000 pageviews per month).

The top 1000 articles focused on major events, for the year, with "Michael Jackson" (#11), plus his family, albums, swine flu, and many celebrities or films ranking very high. The word "wiki" (#8) is still viewed by millions, along with YouTube (#13), Facebook, and "Wikipedia" all higher than "Sex" (#24). Many blog websites, celebrities, and sexual words ranked above 500. The rank of "The Beatles" (initially #9) fell to 57th on December 12, when daily page-views dropped from over 100,000 to 21,200 per day. Moving into the Top 1000, this year, were: Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, Holocaust, God, Religion, Socialism, Democracy, Communism, Anne Boleyn, Hellen Keller, Plato, Meryl Streep, Demi Moore, Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Taylor, Jesse James, Keanu Reeves, Usher, Justin Bieber & others.

The Top 1000 average over 5600 pageviews/day, but any low month, below 1500 per day, would drop an article's average by over 350 per day. Even in December, a low-interest article can skyrocket into the Top 1000 if a major news event causes reader-interest to exceed 1.9 million pageviews within a month (5600 pageviews/day totals 2,044,000 per year). Basically, the Top 1000 each get over 2 million views during the year, but might not be popular by year's end. For example, some topics related to "Twilight (2008 film)" had only moderate pageviews by November 2009.

However, many traditional topics were still high-ranking among the top 2,500 topics: Socrates #1325, Plato #830, and Aristotle #683, with Physics #1386.

Top 1000 articles

The following were the top 1000 in 2009 (revised 31Jan10 for rank, daily page-views & name). The data contains some errors, and many are approximate page-views (marked by tilde "~"), rather than the page-views averaged for the entire year. Also, some duplicates (such as "Watchmen" and "Watchmen (film)") repeat entries for similar names. Wikipedia pages (such as "Special:Search" & "Main Page") are also listed, so this is not a clean list, nor was it extensively analyzed. It's just 1000 high-count articles, as a rough-guess at popularity, and some popular articles might have been omitted. Each entry shows the daily page-views & percent:

16,661,590 [8.49%]: Special:Search (+ 130,658 subpage hits per day)
5,666,000 [3.37%]: Main Page
2,940,595 [1.50%]: Special:Random (+ 204 subpage hits per day)
639,014 [0.33%]: Special:Randompage (+ 1 subpage hits per day)
478,999 [0.24%]: 404 error/ (missing /wiki/ – bot?)
225,900 [0.05%]: Search
193,658 [0.10%]: Special:Export (+ 337,067 subpage hits per day)
123,540 [0.07%]: Wiki
113,380 [0.06%]: The Beatles (fell to #57 on 12 December 2009)
102,740 [0.06%]: Special:Watchlist (+ 864 subpage hits per day)
96,470 [0.05%]: Michael Jackson (+21,022 redirects/day in June)
85,590 [0.05%]: Favicon.ico (incl. icon requests)
70,260 [0.04%]: YouTube
53,490 [0.03%]: Deaths in 2009 (+ 8,958 redirect hits/day in June)
45,920 [0.03%]: Wikipedia
45,780 [0.02%]: United States
41,170 [0.02%]: Facebook
38,500 [0.02%]: Barack Obama
37,390 [0.02%]: Portal:Current events
35,600 [0.02%]: Special:OAIRepository
33,320 [0.02%]: Lil Wayne
30,650 [0.01%]: Swine influenza
30,005 [0.01%]: Eminem
29,800 [0.01%]: Sex
29,773 [0.02%]: Lady GaGa (or Lady gaga)
28,523 [0.01%]: Miley Cyrus
27,590 [0.02%]: Portal:Contents
27,440 [0.01%]: Avatar or Avatar (2009 film)
26,690 [0.01%]: World War II
25,450 [0.02%]: Lost (TV series)
25,400 [0.01%]: Megan Fox
25,330 [0.01%]: Adolf Hitler
24,780 [0.01%]: India
24,760 [0.01%]: Taylor Swift
24,670 [0.01%]: United Kingdom
24,350 [0.01%]: 2012
23,630 [0.01%]: Windows 7
23,310 [0.01%]: Vagina
23,170 [0.01%]: Harry Potter
22,510 [0.02%]: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (+ 61,718 redirect hits/day in June)
21,720 [0.01%]: True Blood
21,500 [0.01%]: Twitter
21,390 [0.01%]: Heroes (TV series)
21,370 [0.01%]: Canada
21,347 [0.01%]: List of House episodes
21,250 [0.01%]: Naruto
21,110 [0.02%]: Rihanna
21,015 [0.01%]: Penis
20,958 [0.01%]: Family Guy or Family guy
20,780 [0.01%]: Scrubs (TV series)
20,720 [0.01%]: Portal:Featured content
20,690 [0.01%]: World War I
20,590 [0.01%]: Google
20,570 [0.01%]: List of sex positions
20,540 [0.01%]: Sexual intercourse
20,410 [0.01%]: Japan
20,400 [0.01%]: Beyoncé Knowles or "Beyonce..."
20,335 [0.01%]: Kristen Stewart
20,270 [0.01%]: Australia
20,080 [0.01%]: House (TV series)
19,890 [0.01%]: Internet Movie Database
19,670 [0.01%]: Script kiddie
19,380 [0.01%]: Robert Pattinson
19,360 [0.01%]: Watchmen
19,260 [0.01%]: Masturbation
19,180 [0.01%]: Human penis size
19,030 [0.01%]: Selena Gomez
18,960 [0.01%]: Jay-Z
18,950 [0.01%]: The Jackson 5 or Jackson 5
18,760 [0.01%]: New Moon (2009 film) or The Twilight Saga: New Moon
18,470 [0.01%]: 2009 in film
18,460 [0.01%]: Wikipedia:About
18,210 [0.01%]: Twilight (2008 film)
18,150 [0.01%]: New York City
18,110 [0.01%]: Global warming
17,960 [0.01%]: Germany
17,910 [0.01%]: Kanye West
17,780 [0.01%]: Kim Kardashian
17,520 [0.01%]: Transformers 2
17,465 [0.01%]: Brittany Murphy
17,175 [0.01%]: Special:RecentChanges (+ 18 subpage hits per day)
17,020 [0.01%]: Britney Spears
17,000 [0.01%]: How I Met Your Mother
16,980 [0.01%]: Hannah Montana
16,950 [0.01%]: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
16,875 [0.01%]: Star Trek (film)
16,860 [0.01%]: Anal sex
16,720 [0.01%]: William Shakespeare
16,690 [0.01%]: 50 Cent
16,640 [0.01%]: Slumdog Millionaire
16,600 [0.01%]: Tupac Shakur
16,540 [0.01%]: Watchmen (film)
15,990 [0.01%]: List of Family Guy episodes
15,947 [0.01%]: Jonas Brothers
15,920 [0.01%]: China
15,910 [0.01%]: List of Presidents of the United States
15,850 [0.01%]: Martin Luther King, Jr.
15,716 [0.01%]: Bleach (manga)
15,510 [0.01%]: France
15,475 [0.01%]: Abraham Lincoln
15,425 [0.01%]: Terminator Salvation (+ 6,877 redirect hits/day in June)
15,313 [0.01%]: John F. Kennedy (13,920) or JFK
15,180 [0.01%]: Russia
15,100 [0.01%]: Vietnam War
15,090 [0.01%]: Israel
14,990 [0.01%]: Mariah Carey or Carrey
14,900 [0.01%]: Henry VIII of England
14,895 [0.01%]: Batman
14,860 [0.01%]: America's Next Top Model
14,840 [0.01%]: Johnny Depp
14,550 [0.01%]: Metallica
14,510 [0.01%]: Special:ExpandTemplates
14,475 [0.01%]: List of Bleach episodes
14,470 [0.01%]: MySpace
14,420 [0.01%]: Taylor Lautner
14,350 [0.01%]: South Park
14,256 [0.01%]: Albert Einstein
14,240 [0.01%]: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (or "Origins")
14,150 [0.01%]: Philippines or Phillipines or Phillippines or Philipines
14,132 [0.01%]: Angelina Jolie
14,100 [0.01%]: Leonardo da Vinci
13,930 [0.01%]: Demi Lovato
13,911 [0.01%]: Pornography
13,790 [0.01%]: Twilight (novel)
13,732 [0.01%]: Michael Jordan
13,690 [0.01%]: Brazil
13,670 [0.01%]: Tiger Woods
13,666 [0.01%]: John Lennon
13,630 [0.01%]: Black Eyed Peas
13,590 [0.01%]: Love
13,550 [0.01%]: Glee (TV series)
13,495 [0.01%]: American Idol
13,490 [0.01%]: English language
13,250 [0.01%]: Wikipedia:Citation needed
13,183 [0.01%]: London
13,180 [0.01%]: Charles Manson
13,160 [0.01%]: Mexico
13,158 [0.01%]: Oral sex
13,100 [0,01%]: Bruce Lee
13,015 [0.02%]: 404 error (missing /wiki/ – bot?)
13,010 [0.01%]: Hotmail
13,000 [0.01%]: PlayStation 3
12,990 [0.01%]: Dexter (TV series)
12,990 [0.01%]: The Notorious B.I.G.
12,950 [0.01%]: Italy
12,930 [0.01%]: American Civil War
12,880 [0.01%]: NCIS (TV series)
12,859 [0.01%]: Bruce Springsteen
12,810 [0.01%]: Will Smith
12,750 [0.01%]: Farrah Fawcett (+ 3,052 redirect hits/day in June)
12,700 [0.01%]: The Simpsons
12,690 [0.01%]: Brad Pitt
12,620 [0.01%]: The Dark Knight (film)
12,605 [0.01%]: 2 Girls 1 Cup
12,590 [0.01%]: Elvis Presley or "Presly"
12,585 [0.01%]: Green Day
12,505 [0.01%]: England
12,495 [0.01%]: Orgasm
12,490 [0.01%]: Inglourious Basterds
12,460 [0.01%]: Spain
12,440 [0.01%]: Bulgaria
12,425 [0.01%]: Deadpool (comics)
12,420 [0.01%]: Madonna (entertainer)
12,380 [0.01%]: Seven deadly sins
12,375 [0.01%]: List of Heroes episodes
12,370 [0.01%]: Arnold Schwarzenegger
12,230 [0.01%]: Grey's Anatomy
12,170 [0.01%]: Xbox 360
12,087 [0.01%]: Asperger syndrome
12,070 [0.01%]: Europe
12,035 [0.01%]: Katy Perry
12,010 [0.01%]: Bill Gates
11,980 [0.01%]: George W. Bush
11,970 [0.01%]: Entourage (TV series)
11,960 [0.01%]: Iran
11,950 [0.01%]: Internet
11,940 [0.01%]: Cristiano Ronaldo
11,930 [0.01%]: District 9
11,920 [0.01%]: Friends
11,880 [0.01%]: T.I.
11,850 [0.01%]: Relapse (album)
11,840 [0.01%]: Standard deviation
11,832 [0.01%]: Bipolar disorder
11,830 [0.01%]: Billy Mays
11,806 [0.01%]: Richard Nixon
11,795 [0.01%]: Linkin Park
11,765 [0.01%]: Spam
11,690 [0.01%]: Manchester United F.C.
11,670 [0.01%]: Egypt
11,648 [0.01%]: Nikola Tesla
11,560 [0.01%]: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
11,550 [0.01%]: John Dillinger
11,540 [0.02%]: Jade Goody
11,463 [0.01%]: New Zealand
11,462 [0.01%]: Ted Kennedy
11,460 [0.01%]: Emma Watson
11,440 [0.01%]: YouPorn
11,360 [0.01%]: Pakistan
11,320 [0.01%]: Che Guevara
11,300 [0.01%]: South Africa
11,280 [0.01%]: List of Twilight characters
11,260 [0.01%]: Dwayne Johnson
11,240 [0.01%]: Doctor Who or Dr Who
11,219 [0.01%]: Charles Darwin
11,210 [0.01%]: Turkey
11,180 [0.01%]: North Korea
11,175 [0.01%]: Netherlands
11,170 [0.01%]: Wonders of the World
11,145 [0.01%]: Friday the 13th ~
11,141 [0.01%]: Twilight (series) ~
11,130 [0.01%]: Kings of Leon
11,117 [0.01%]: 90210 (TV series) ~
11,115 [0.01%]: Thriller (album)
11,110 [0.01%]: Pi
11,105 [0.01%]: iCarly
11,080 [0.01%]: George Washington
11,057 [0.01%]: Edward Cullen (Twilight) or Edward Cullen
11,046 [0.01%]: The Haunting in Connecticut ~
11,037 [0.01%]: List of Lost episodes ~
11,020 [0.01%]: Jesus
11,010 [0.01%]: Illuminati
11,100 [0.01%]: Dollhouse (TV series)
10,943 [0.01%]: Super Bowl XLIII ~
10,933 [0.01%]: Pokémon or Pokemon
10,905 [0.01%]: Earth
10,900 [0.01%]: Scientology
10,890 [0.01%]: Vanessa Hudgens
10,877 [0.01%]: Fedor Emelianenko
10,865 [0.01%]: Fallout 3
10,857 [0.01%]: One Tree Hill (TV series) ~
10,810 [0.01%]: Janet Jackson
10,770 [0.01%]: List of dog breeds
10,760 [0.01%]: Freemasonry
10,755 [0.01%]: Clitoris
10,750 [0.01%]: RMS Titanic
10,750 [0.01%]: Prison Break
10,747 [0.01%]: Kobe Bryant
10,724 [0.01%]: Singapore
10,710 [0.01%]: California
10,696 [0.01%]: Special:Export/ ~
10,680 [0.01%]: New Moon (novel)
10,650 [0.01%]: Akon
10,647 [0.01%]: Wikipedia:Community portal ~
10,644 [0.01%]: Great Depression
10,640 [0.01%]: The Undertaker
10,630 [0.01%]: Star Wars
10,625 [0.01%]: Friday the 13th (2009 film) ~
10,590 [0.01%]: James Bond
10,575 [0.01%]: Noesis
10,570 [0.01%]: Cat
10,560 [0.01%]: Gossip Girl (TV series) ~
10,540 [0.01%]: List of How I Met Your Mother episodes
10,534 [0.01%]: Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ~
10,510 [0.01%]: Transformers (film)
10,500 [0.01%]: Islam
10,498 [0.01%]: List of The Simpsons episodes ~
10,488 [0.01%]: World Wrestling Entertainment ~
10,450 [0.01%]: Roger Federer
10,430 [0.01%]: Bob Marley
10,421 [0.01%]: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ~
10,415 [0.01%]: Ronald Reagan
10,395 [0.01%]: Natasha Richardson
10,390 [<.01%]: Bob Dylan
10,365 [0.01%]: The Office (U.S. TV series) ~
10,360 [0.01%]: X-Men or Xmen
10,330 [0.01%]: Muse (band)
10,320 [0.01%]: AC/DC
10,300 [0.01%]: Cannabis (drug)
10,295 [0.01%]: Schizophrenia
10,290 [0.01%]: Heath Ledger
10,287 [0.01%]: Ireland
10,285 [0.01%]: Desperate Housewives
10,250 [0.01%]: Zac Efron
10,230 [0.01%]: Switzerland
10,220 [0.01%]: Ejaculation
10,210 [0.01%]: Sweden
10,142 [0.01%]: List of South Park episodes ~
10,105 [0.01%]: Jimi Hendrix or Jimmy Hendrix
10,090 [0.01%]: Buddhism
10,085 [0.01%]: Microsoft
10,080 [0.01%]: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
10,070 [0.01%]: Burj Dubai
10,070 [0.01%]: European Union
10,060 [0.01%]: Elizabeth I of England
10,053 [0.01%]: Palestine
10,040 [0.01%]: Greek alphabet
10,026 [0.01%]: Dubai
10,020 [0.01%]: Slipknot (band)
10,005 [0.01%]: Breaking Dawn
10,000 [0.01%]: Shia LaBeouf
9,995 [0.01%]: 24 (TV series)
9,980 [0.01%]: Fellatio
9,968 [0.01%]: Futurama
9,965 [0.01%]: Cold War
9,920 [0.01%]: President of the United States
9,915 [0.01%]: Shakira
9,899 [0.01%]: Christian Bale
9,890 [0.01%]: John Cena
9,870 [0.01%]: Argentina
9,850 [0.01%]: Clint Eastwood
9,840 [0.01%]: Vitiligo
9,830 [0.01%]: Pink Floyd
9,770 [0.01%]: Africa
9,750 [0.01%]: Led Zeppelin or "Lead Zeppelin"
9,726 [0.01%]: Female ejaculation
9,725 [0.01%]: Mickey Rourke
9,695 [0.01%]: Muhammad Ali
9,670 [0.01%]: Bill Clinton
9,660 [<.01%]: The Game (rapper)
9,645 [<.01%]: Christopher Columbus
9,570 [<.01%]: Paris
9,566 [<.01%]: Franklin D. Roosevelt
9,565 [<.01%]: Ryan Reynolds
9,540 [<.01%]: Paper size
9,485 [<.01%]: Lindsay Lohan
9,480 [<.01%]: Cocaine
9,460 [<.01%]: DNA
9,455 [<.01%]: Wikipedia:IPA for English
9,445 [<.01%]: Tom Cruise
9,444 [<.01%]: LeBron James
9,410 [<.01%]: Paramore
9,405 [<.01%]: Jenna Jameson
9,402 [<.01%]: List of Scrubs episodes
9,400 [<.01%]: Christmas
9,390 [<.01%]: Brock Lesnar
9,380 [<.01%]: Skins (TV series)
9,370 [<.01%]: U2
9,340 [<.01%]: AIDS
9,340 [<.01%]: Snoop Dogg
9,312 [<.01%]: Tuberculosis
9,310 [<.01%]: Thomas Jefferson
9,300 [<.01%]: Alexander the Great
9,283 [<.01%]: Chris Brown (entertainer)
9,270 [<.01%]: Jennifer Aniston
9,238 [<.01%]: Queen (band)
9,220 [<.01%]: Vampire
9,211 [<.01%]: Mila Kunis
9,200 [<.01%]: Celebrity sex tape
9,190 [<.01%]: Afghanistan
9,187 [<.01%]: Vulva
9,160 [<.01%]: Ashley Tisdale
9,107 [<.01%]: Lost (season 5)
9,095 [<.01%]: Wizards of Waverly Place
9,088 [<.01%]: David Bowie
9,080 [<.01%]: Kurt Cobain
9,068 [<.01%]: C (programming language)
9,040 [<.01%]: Manny Pacquiao
9,025 [<.01%]: Google Earth
9,005 [<.01%]: Marilyn Monroe
8,995 [<.01%]: Sandra Bullock
8,980 [<.01%]: Valentine's Day
8,970 [<.01%]: David Carradine
8,965 [0.01%]: List of downloadable songs for the Rock Band series
8,947 [<.01%]: Resident Evil 5
8,945 [<.01%]: Emo
8,940 [<.01%]: Renaissance
8,914 [<.01%]: List of songs in Rock Band ~
8,901 [<.01%]: Triple H
8,871 [<.01%]: List of countries by GDP (nominal) ~
8,870 [<.01%]: Homecoming (Naruto episode)
8,870 [<.01%]: Jessica Alba
8,869 [<.01%]: Periodic table
8,851 [<.01%]: Cloud computing
8,850 [<.01%]: Pussycat Dolls
8,845 [<.01%]: Paris Hilton
8,843 [<.01%]: Prince (musician)
8,840 [<.01%]: Edgar Allan Poe
8,822 [<.01%]: List of songs in Rock Band 2 ~
8,820 [<.01%]: Isaac Newton
8,801 [<.01%]: Wikipedia:Contact us ~
8,800 [<.01%]: Zooey Deschanel
8,777 [<.01%]: Vietnam
8,770 [<.01%]: Special:SpecialPages (+ 12 subpage hits per day) ~
8,763 [<.01%]: Leonardo DiCaprio ~
8,760 [<.01%]: Titanic (1997 film)
8,740 [<.01%]: Nelson Mandela
8,730 [<.01%]: Breast
8,727 [<.01%]: Kama Sutra
8,720 [<.01%]: Lily Allen
8,720 [<.01%]: Marilyn Manson
8,716 [<.01%]: Paul McCartney
8,715 [<.01%]: Hawaii
8,680 [<.01%]: Justin Timberlake
8,678 [<.01%]: People's Republic of China ~
8,677 [<.01%]: One Piece
8,675 [<.01%]: Indonesia
8,670 [<.01%]: Coldplay
8,660 [<.01%]: Jeff Hardy
8,650 [<.01%]: Water
8,648 [<.01%]: Hong Kong
8,640 [<.01%]: United States Constitution ~
8,635 [<.01%]: Greece
8,630 [<.01%]: Nirvana (band)
8,630 [<.01%]: Adam Lambert
8,628 [<.01%]: Kid Cudi
8,615 [<.01%]: Dakota Fanning
8,604 [<.01%]: Rebirth (Lil Wayne album) ~
8,601 [<.01%]: Wolverine (comics) ~
8,595 [<.01%]: Pneumonia
8,590 [<.01%]: Randy Jackson (musician) ~
8,589 [<.01%]: 2009 swine flu outbreak ~
8,580 [<.01%]: Stephen Hawking
8,580 [<.01%]: Michael Oher
8,570 [<.01%]: Ku Klux Klan
8,555 [<.01%]: Jim Carrey
8,552 [<.01%]: Air France Flight 447 (+ 6,325 redirect hits/day in June) ~
8,545 [<.01%]: Igor Stravinsky (+ 486 redirect hits/day in June) ~
8,536 [<.01%]: 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict ~
8,535 [<.01%]: Hilary Duff
8,520 [<.01%]: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button or "+(film)" ~
8,520 [<.01%]: Julius Caesar
8,510 [<.01%]: Ten Commandments
8,476 [<.01%]: Ed McMahon (+ 1,079 redirect hits/day in June) ~
8,466 [<.01%]: Battlestar Galactica ~
8,463 [<.01%]: The Secret Life of the American Teenager ~
8,461 [<.01%]: List of Super Bowl champions ~
8,455 [<.01%]: Chicago
8,450 [<.01%]: F-22 Raptor ~
8,430 [<.01%]: Pablo Picasso
8,419 [<.01%]: Patrick Swayze ~
8,416 [<.01%]: Seven Pounds ~
8,410 [<.01%]: Justin Bieber
8,394 [<.01%]: Heroes ~
8,390 [<.01%]: Freddie Mercury or Freddy...
8,383 [<.01%]: 2009
8,382 [<.01%]: Los Angeles
8,380 [<.01%]: Zodiac
8,370 [<.01%]: Gross domestic product
8,350 [<.01%]: The Blueprint 3
8,345 [<.01%]: Mars
8,340 [<.01%]: Attack on Pearl Harbor
8,340 [<.01%]: Kiss (band)
8,325 [<.01%]: The Rolling Stones or Rolling Stones
8,320 [<.01%]: Eclipse (Meyer novel)
8,315 [<.01%]: Left 4 Dead
8,312 [<.01%]: Fringe (TV series)
8,310 [<.01%]: Blink-182
8,306 [<.01%]: Scarlett Johansson
8,300 [<.01%]: Poland
8,296 [<.01%]: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) ~
8,288 [<.01%]: ER (TV series) ~
8,270 [<.01%]: Autism
8,260 [<.01%]: Romeo and Juliet
8,250 [<.01%]: Dog
8,243 [<.01%]: Joseph Stalin
8,240 [<.01%]: Steve Jobs
8,235 [<.01%]: Theodore Roosevelt
8,230 [<.01%]: Galileo Galilei or Galileo (redirect)
8,190 [<.01%]: Malaysia
8,180 [<.01%]: Multiple sclerosis
8,177 [<.01%]: Soviet Union
8,160 [<.01%]: Malcolm X
8,150 [<.01%]: Hentai
8,141 [<.01%]: Jackson family (30,000 per day mid-July)
8,140 [<.01%]: Dr. Dre
8,140 [<.01%]: Psychology
8,135 [<.01%]: Sasha Grey
8,116 [<.01%]: Portal:Contents/Portals ~
8,115 [<.01%]: Korean War
8,110 [<.01%]: Scotland
8,105 [<.01%]: Wii
8,100 [<.01%]: Socialism
8,091 [<.01%]: Puerto Rico
8,077 [<.01%]: Norway
8,070 [<.01%]: Bruce Springsteen
8,060 [<.01%]: Real Madrid C.F.
8,055 [<.01%]: M.I.A. (artist)
8,050 [<.01%]: Iceland
8,040 [<.01%]: Fast & Furious (2009 film) ~
8,011 [<.01%]: Holocaust
8,003 [<.01%]: Solar System
8,000 [<.01%]: Valkyrie (film)
7,980 [<.01%]: Adam Sandler
7,975 [<.01%]: IPod Touch
7,970 [<.01%]: Easter
7,960 [<.01%]: Computer
7,945 [<.01%]: Moon
7,940 [<.01%]: Chernobyl disaster
7,940 [<.01%]: Sarah Palin
7,932 [<.01%]: Wikipedia:Copyrights ~
7,930 [<.01%]: Cuba
7,920 [<.01%]: Andy Warhol
7,905 [<.01%]: Benjamin Franklin
7,895 [<.01%]: Texas
7,850 [<.01%]: Harvey Milk
7,845 [<.01%]: Nas
7,841 [<.01%]: World Trade Center
7,840 [<.01%]: Playboy
7,830 [<.01%]: Winston Churchill
7,826 [<.01%]: Supernatural (TV series) ~
7,822 [<.01%]: List of countries by population ~
7,820 [<.01%]: NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship ~
7,820 [<.01%]: Fuck
7,800 [<.01%]: Washington, D.C. or "...DC"
7,778 [<.01%]: South Korea
7,767 [<.01%]: Maslow's hierarchy of needs
7,765 [<.01%]: Twilight
7,760 [<.01%]: Sun
7,756 [<.01%]: Industrial Revolution
7,752 [<.01%]: Liam Neeson
7,750 [<.01%]: Superman
7,744 [<.01%]: HIV
7,738 [<.01%]: Nudity
7,732 [<.01%]: List of songs in Guitar Hero World Tour ~
7,730 [<.01%]: Vin Diesel
7,715 [<.01%]: Seth Rogen
7,710 [<.01%]: Johnny Cash
7,702 [<.01%]: John Travolta
7,700 [<.01%]: 24 (season 7) or 24
7,695 [<.01%]: Thailand
7,684 [<.01%]: UEFA Champions League
7,670 [<.01%]: Macaulay Culkin
7,655 [<.01%]: Denmark
7,650 [<.01%]: Kate Winslet
7,640 [<.01%]: Lost
7,638 [0.01%]: Michelle Obama
7,635 [<.01%]: David Beckham
7,630 [<.01%]: Nicole Scherzinger
7,618 [<.01%]: Pink (singer) ~
7,610 [<.01%]: Area 51
7,605 [<.01%]: Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License ~
7,600 [<.01%]: List of social networking websites
7,589 [<.01%]: Serial ATA ~
7,580 [<.01%]: Coffee
7,571 [<.01%]: Napoleon I of France
7,566 [<.01%]: Iron Maiden ~
7,550 [<.01%]: Nazi Germany ~
7,550 [<.01%]: iPod ~
7,549 [<.01%]: Danny Boyle ~
7,540 [<.01%]: Before I Self Destruct
7,535 [<.01%]: Walt Disney
7,530 [<.01%]: Rosa Parks
7,524 [<.01%]: Final Fantasy
7,508 [<.01%]: Gucci Mane
7,505 [<.01%]: Wikipedia:Upload
7,494 [<.01%]: Tom Hanks
7,485 [<.01%]: Oprah Winfrey
7,471 [<.01%]: US Airways Flight 1549 ~
7,470 [<.01%]: Final Fantasy XIII
7,459 [<.01%]: Ciara ~
7,456 [<.01%]: iPhone ~
7,450 [<.01%]: HTTP ~
7,441 [<.01%]: Hulk Hogan
7,440 [<.01%]: Michael Bublé
7,425 [<.01%]: Circumcision
7,422 [<.01%]: Guns N' Roses ~
7,421 [<.01%]: Basketball
7,421 [<.01%]: Grand Theft Auto IV
7,420 [<.01%]: Oxycodone
7,419 [<.01%]: Caffeine ~
7,414 [<.01%]: 300 (film) ~
7,413 [<.01%]: Chelsea F.C.
7,411 [<.01%]: Globalization ~
7,410 [<.01%]: Ponzi scheme ~
7,407 [<.01%]: Hurricane Katrina (cycles weekly)
7,405 [<.01%]: Up (2009 film)
7,383 [<.01%]: United States Bill of Rights
7,373 [<.01%]: Arsenal F.C. ~
7,363 [<.01%]: Kelly Clarkson
7,362 [<.01%]: New York ~
7,359 [<.01%]: Ludwig van Beethoven ~
7,355 [<.01%]: Salvador Dalí ~
7,355 [<.01%]: John F. Kennedy assassination ~
7,350 [<.01%]: BDSM
7,340 [<.01%]: Penélope Cruz or Penelope...
7,333 [<.01%]: Journey (band) ~
7,330 [<.01%]: Iori Yagami ~
7,326 [<.01%]: 501(c) ~
7,325 [<.01%]: Rome
7,320 [<.01%]: Hayden Panettiere
7,310 [<.01%]: Cancer
7,309 [<.01%]: Harriet Tubman ~
7,295 [<.01%]: Wolverine and the X-Men
7,295 [<.01%]: Alicia Keys
7,289 [<.01%]: Shahrukh Khan
7,281 [<.01%]: Bones (TV series) ~
7,280 [<.01%]: Human
7,278 [<.01%]: Jack the Ripper ~
7,268 [<.01%]: George Harrison
7,263 [<.01%]: File:Red pog.svg (image: ) ~
7,260 [<.01%]: Miranda Cosgrove
7,255 [<.01%]: United Arab Emirates
7,247 [<.01%]: Freida Pinto or Frieda
7,237 [<.01%]: Ashton Kutcher
7,220 [<.01%]: Gaza strip or Gaza
7,210 [<.01%]: Blood pressure
7,205 [<.01%]: Gerard Butler
7,201 [<.01%]: List of unusual deaths
7,200 [<.01%]: Al Capone
7,200 [<.01%]: LOL
7,190 [<.01%]: French Revolution
7,180 [<.01%]: Kimbo Slice
7,172 [<.01%]: United Nations
7,170 [<.01%]: Fascism
7,170 [<.01%]: Nigeria
7,167 [<.01%]: Ivy League
7,150 [<.01%]: List of Doctor Who serials
7,147 [<.01%]: Randy Orton
7,140 [<.01%]: Blood type
7,135 [<.01%]: Jermaine Jackson
7,130 [<.01%]: Anime
7,120 [<.01%]: Finland
7,095 [<.01%]: Michelangelo or "Michaelangelo"
7,090 [<.01%]: Pubic hair
7,075 [<.01%]: Jupiter
7,074 [<.01%]: Joaquin Phoenix
7,063 [<.01%]: Hugh Jackman
7,060 [<.01%]: Craigslist
7,058 [<.01%]: Red Hot Chili Peppers ~
7,050 [<.01%]: Sri Lanka
7,046 [<.01%]: Two and a Half Men ~
7,043 [<.01%]: Black Death ~
7,038 [<.01%]: Columbine High School massacre ~
7,036 [<.01%]: Gmail
7,035 [<.01%]: Non-profit organization ~
7,030 [<.01%]: Jamaica
7,029 [<.01%]: Anne Hathaway (actress)
7,029 [<.01%]: Sigmund Freud
7,020 [<.01%]: List of iCarly episodes
7,015 [<.01%]: Radiohead
7,010 [<.01%]: 3G
7,006 [<.01%]: Operating system
7,005 [<.01%]: Shaquille O'Neal or Shaq
6,994 [<.01%]: Muhammad
6,980 [<.01%]: Bow Wow
6,980 [<.01%]: Ice Cube
6,970 [<.01%]: Karl Marx
6,966 [<.01%]: Roman Empire
6,965 [<.01%]: World population ~
6,965 [<.01%]: United States Declaration of Independence ~
6,965 [<.01%]: Nintendo DSi ~
6,963 [<.01%]: Roman Empire
6,960 [<.01%]: Andrew Jackson ~
6,950 [<.01%]: High School Musical 2 or High School Musical
6,947 [<.01%]: 4chan
6,943 [<.01%]: Google Street View ~
6,940 [<.01%]: Russell Brand
6,930 [<.01%]: Sacha Baron Cohen (+ 1,049 redirect hits/day in June) ~
6,927 [<.01%]: Jesse McCartney
6,925 [<.01%]: Bukkake
6,915 [<.01%]: Ludacris
6,910 [<.01%]: Lion
6,904 [<.01%]: Volcano
6,904 [<.01%]: Warren Buffett
6,890 [<.01%]: Osama bin Laden
6,888 [<.01%]: Florida
6,880 [<.01%]: Romania
6,875 [<.01%]: Channing Tatum (G.I. Joe)
6,872 [<.01%]: RAID
6,870 [<.01%]: Ethanol
6,865 [<.01%]: Audrey Hepburn
6,861 [<.01%]: Guantanamo Bay detention camp ~
6,860 [<.01%]: Alaska
6,845 [<.01%]: Dev Patel
6,840 [<.01%]: A. R. Rahman ~
6,836 [<.01%]: Avengers (comics) ~
6,836 [<.01%]: Normal distribution
6,830 [<.01%]: T-Pain
6,824 [<.01%]: Code Geass
6,817 [<.01%]: List of United States cities by population ~
6,815 [<.01%]: Belgium
6,810 [<.01%]: Tiger
6,809 [<.01%]: Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)
6,805 [<.01%]: Natalie Portman
6,804 [<.01%]: Seven Wonders of the World
6,800 [<.01%]: List of Top Gear episodes
6,790 [<.01%]: Thomas Edison
6,788 [<.01%]: American Revolutionary War ~
6,780 [<.01%]: Daniel Radcliffe
6,770 [<.01%]: Jennifer Lopez
6,769 [<.01%]: Christina Aguilera
6,765 [<.01%]: Daylight saving time or "savings"
6,758 [<.01%]: Oasis (band)
6,755 [<.01%]: Joker (comics)
6,750 [<.01%]: Adderall
6,742 [<.01%]: Blog
6,730 [<.01%]: G-spot
6,728 [<.01%]: Web 2.0 or Web 2
6,720 [<.01%]: The Holocaust
6,715 [<.01%]: Christianity
6,710 [<.01%]: Nicolas Cage
6,695 [<.01%]: Auschwitz concentration camp
6,690 [<.01%]: Aristotle
6,680 [<.01%]: Colombia
6,669 [<.01%]: Death Note
6,665 [<.01%]: F-35 Lightning II
6,661 [<.01%]: Absinthe
6,660 [<.01%]: Morocco
6,659 [<.01%]: Salvia divinorum
6,635 [<.01%]: Cunnilingus
6,630 [<.01%]: Crohn's disease
6,630 [<.01%]: George H. W. Bush
6,625 [<.01%]: Keri Hilson
6,603 [<.01%]: Neil Patrick Harris
6,611 [<.01%]: Great Wall of China ~
6,603 [<.01%]: Gossip Girl (TV Series) ~
6,600 [<.01%]: Tramadol
6,599 [<.01%]: Liverpool F.C. ~
6,583 [<.01%]: High School Musical 3 or High School Musical
6,582 [<.01%]: Leona Lewis
6,580 [<.01%]: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake ~
6,575 [<.01%]: Helen Keller
6,572 [<.01%]: Young Jeezy
6,566 [<.01%]: Hugh Hefner
6,565 [<.01%]: Blu-ray Disc
6,563 [<.01%]: Açaí Palm ~
6,561 [<.01%]: Information technology ~
6,560 [<.01%]: The Godfather
6,559 [<.01%]: Hitler
6,558 [<.01%]: Evolution
6,546 [<.01%]: Help:Contents
6,540 [<.01%]: Seinfeld
6,535 [<.01%]: Usain Bolt
6,534 [<.01%]: The Sims 3 ~
6,530 [<.01%]: Abortion
6,525 [<.01%]: Chuck (TV series) ~
6,520 [<.01%]: Heroin
6,520 [<.01%]: Anne Boleyn
6,520 [<.01%]: Linux
6,519 [<.01%]: Mark Wahlberg
6,517 [<.01%]: Ottoman Empire ~
6,515 [<.01%]: Coraline (film) ~
6,513 [<.01%]: Nineteen Eighty-Four ~
6,512 [<.01%]: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li ~
6,500 [<.01%]: This Is It (Michael Jackson concerts) & film
6,496 [<.01%]: Scrubs
6,495 [<.01%]: List of female porn stars by decade
6,493 [<.01%]: Joe Jonas ~
6,491 [<.01%]: Agnosticism ~
6,490 [<.01%]: List of Naruto characters
6,487 [<.01%]: John Adams
6,485 [<.01%]: Gambit (comics)
6,479 [<.01%]: Rick Ross (rapper)
6,477 [<.01%]: Joe Biden ~
6,476 [<.01%]: Conficker
6,475 [<.01%]: Narcissism
6,473 [<.01%]: Porno (novel) ~
6,471 [<.01%]: Alan Moore ~
6,469 [<.01%]: Recent deaths ~
6,463 [<.01%]: Morrissey ~
6,462 [<.01%]: Saudi Arabia ~
6,461 [<.01%]: Bermuda Triangle ~
6,460 [<.01%]: Dominican Republic
6,450 [<.01%]: MGMT
6,445 [<.01%]: Gold
6,444 [<.01%]: Grand Theft Auto (series) ~
6,441 [<.01%]: Obsessive-compulsive disorder ~
6,440 [<.01%]: Virus
6,439 [<.01%]: Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ~
6,437 [<.01%]: Wiktionary
6,430 [<.01%]: Malware
6,422 [<.01%]: Taj Mahal ~
6,420 [<.01%]: Carbon dioxide ~
6,412 [<.01%]: Ernest Hemingway
6,410 [<.01%]: Sean Combs ~
6,409 [<.01%]: Shawn Michaels
6,408 [<.01%]: Nick Jonas ~
6,400 [<.01%]: Tagged
6,392 [<.01%]: Existentialism
6,390 [<.01%]: Firefly (TV series) ~
6,390 [<.01%]: Gout
6,387 [<.01%]: Aishwarya Rai
6,377 [<.01%]: Ugly Betty
6,375 [<.01%]: Avril Lavigne
6,374 [<.01%]: Eye color
6,370 [<.01%]: World of Warcraft ~
6,370 [<.01%]: NATO phonetic alphabet
6,364 [<.01%]: Demi Moore
6,363 [<.01%]: Sylvester Stallone
6,360 [<.01%]: Zombieland
6,359 [<.01%]: Joely Richardson ~
6,355 [<.01%]: Windows Vista
6,351 [<.01%]: Holly Madison ~
6,351 [<.01%]: Gerald Ford ~
6,350 [<.01%]: Fall Out Boy ~
6,345 [<.01%]: Robin Williams
6,340 [<.01%]: 2008 in film
6,337 [<.01%]: Claus von Stauffenberg ~
6,333 [<.01%]: Native Americans in the United States ~
6,327 [<.01%]: The-Dream ~
6,325 [<.01%]: Victoria of the United Kingdom
6,315 [<.01%]: Assassin's Creed
6,310 [<.01%]: Susan Boyle (or higher, with 2,148 daily redirects in June) ~
6,304 [<.01%]: Proxy server
6,300 [<.01%]: Zeus
6,298 [<.01%]: Marketing
6,295 [<.01%]: G.I. Joe or GI Joe
6,290 [<.01%]: Mahatma Gandhi
6,280 [<.01%]: Avenged Sevenfold
6,280 [<.01%]: Philosophy
6,279 [<.01%]: Criminal Minds
6,278 [<.01%]: Aerosmith ~
6,274 [<.01%]: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ~
6,273 [<.01%]: Bella Swan ~
6,270 [<.01%]: Amino acid ~
6,269 [<.01%]: Mount Everest ~
6,266 [<.01%]: The Big Bang Theory (TV series) ~
6,265 [<.01%]: Air Force One ~
6,262 [<.01%]: Tila Tequila
6,261 [<.01%]: Maya civilization
6,253 [<.01%]: Fingering (sexual act)
6,250 [<.01%]: Anderson Silva
6,245 [<.01%]: Ted Bundy
6,241 [<.01%]: UFC 104
6,240 [<.01%]: Aishwarya Rai
6,239 [<.01%]: K
6,239 [<.01%]: Chile
6,231 [<.01%]: Elin Nordegren
6,230 [<.01%]: Bruce Willis
6,229 [<.01%]: M16 rifle
6,228 [<.01%]: Hookah
6,221 [<.01%]: Madagascar
6,220 [<.01%]: Bernard Madoff
6,215 [<.01%]: Meningitis
6,214 [<.01%]: Dictionary
6,211 [<.01%]: Capitalism
6,210 [<.01%]: Kennedy family
6,209 [<.01%]: Judaism
6,195 [<.01%]: Street Fighter IV
6,190 [<.01%]: Microsoft Windows
6,189 [<.01%]: Hedge fund ~
6,180 [<.01%]: Antarctica
6,170 [<.01%]: The Sopranos
6,157 [<.01%]: Rachel McAdams
6,156 [<.01%]: List of NCIS episodes
6,150 [<.01%]: The Matrix
6,146 [<.01%]: Frank Sinatra ~
6,145 [<.01%]: Stone Cold Steve Austin
6,143 [<.01%]: Hydrogen
6,140 [<.01%]: Plato
6,139 [<.01%]: Heart
6,132 [<.01%]: Matt Damon
6,131 [<.01%]: Nickelback
6,130 [<.01%]: Jason Mraz
6,115 [<.01%]: Hinduism
6,112 [<.01%]: AK-47
6,107 [<.01%]: Pornographic actor
6,105 [<.01%]: Economics
6,104 [<.01%]: Search engine optimization
6,101 [<.01%]: Leighton Meester
6,100 [<.01%]: Austria
6,095 [<.01%]: Windows XP
6,094 [<.01%]: Andy Samberg
6,080 [<.01%]: List of colors
6,072 [<.01%]: Portugal
6,070 [<.01%]: Peru
6,069 [<.01%]: Democracy
6,066 [<.01%]: Alice in Wonderland (2010 film) ~
6,062 [<.01%]: Ne-Yo
6,061 [<.01%]: Special:Preferences (+ 1 subpage hits per day) ~
6,060 [<.01%]: George Clooney
6,058 [<.01%]: Bangladesh
6,056 [<.01%]: Iraq War
6,040 [<.01%]: Julia Child
6,038 [<.01%]: Super Junior
6,031 [<.01%]: Stephenie Meyer
6,030 [<.01%]: Randy Jackson
6,026 [<.01%]: RSS (file format)
6,025 [<.01%]: Katherine Jackson (mother of MJ)
6,017 [<.01%]: Slash (musician)
6,009 [<.01%]: Ox (zodiac) ~
6,003 [<.01%]: Vitamin D ~
6,000 [<.01%]: Rafael Nadal
5,999 [<.01%]: Advertising ~
5,996 [<.01%]: List of Naruto: Shippuden episodes ~
5,997 [<.01%]: Automobile
5,995 [<.01%]: Chinese New Year
5,992 [<.01%]: Premier League ~
5,984 [<.01%]: Conan O'Brien ~
5,975 [<.01%]: Black hole
5,955 [<.01%]: Academy Award
5,954 [<.01%]: Anne Frank
5,952 [<.01%]: Academy Award for Best Picture
5,941 [<.01%]: Carrie Underwood
5,940 [<.01%]: Wales
5,937 [<.01%]: Ukraine
5,933 [<.01%]: Sons of Anarchy
5,930 [<.01%]: Friedrich Nietzsche
5,928 [<.01%]: MP3
5,922 [<.01%]: Golden ratio
5,920 [<.01%]: Caribbean
5,910 [<.01%]: Usher (entertainer)
5,895 [<.01%]: Taiwan
5,892 [<.01%]: God
5,890 [<.01%]: Communism
5,886 [<.01%]: Coca-Cola
5,885 [<.01%]: The Prodigy or Prodigy
5,882 [<.01%]: Elizabeth Taylor
5,880 [<.01%]: DVD
5,878 [<.01%]: Czech Republic
5,861 [<.01%]: Korn
5,856 [<.01%]: Dr. Seuss
5,855 [<.01%]: Keanu Reeves
5,855 [<.01%]: Steve McNair
5,854 [<.01%]: Charles Dickens
5,837 [<.01%]: King Arthur
5,832 [<.01%]: Tokyo
5,830 [<.01%]: Nostradamus
5,826 [<.01%]: World Wide Web
5,825 [<.01%]: Guitar
5,805 [<.01%]: ABBA
5,815 [<.01%]: Mafia
5,801 [<.01%]: List of Bleach characters
5,800 [<.01%]: Amsterdam
5,797 [<.01%]: Euro
5,795 [<.01%]: Down syndrome
5,790 [<.01%]: Martin Luther
5,788 [<.01%]: XML
5,780 [<.01%]: Domain Name System
5,777 [<.01%]: Venus
5,764 [<.01%]: Banana
5,757 [<.01%]: Venezuela
5,755 [<.01%]: Diana, Princess of Wales
5,750 [<.01%]: Genghis Khan
5,748 [<.01%]: Sparta
5,745 [<.01%]: Steven Spielberg
5,733 [<.01%]: Jane Austen or Austin
5,730 [<.01%]: Jesse James
5,720 [<.01%]: Religion
5,715 [<.01%]: XXX
5,711 [<.01%]: Paul Rudd
5,710 [<.01%]: Jimmy Carter
5,710 [<.01%]: Perseids
5,705 [<.01%]: Hermaphrodite
5,703 [<.01%]: Penis enlargement
5,700 [<.01%]: Medicine or drug (2500/day)
5,695 [<.01%]: White House
5,694 [<.01%]: Circus (Britney Spears album)
5,691 [<.01%]: Tool (band)
5,690 [<.01%]: Aaliyah
5,690 [<.01%]: The Wrestler (2008 film)
5,686 [<.01%]: Jay Sean
5,685 [<.01%]: Cricket
5,685 [<.01%]: FIFA World Cup
5,670 [<.01%]: Lebanon
5,669 [<.01%]: Syphilis or "Syphillis" or Siphilis
5,668 [<.01%]: Dwight D. Eisenhower
5,665 [<.01%]: The Who
5,660 [<.01%]: Laser
5,643 [<.01%]: Eric Clapton
5,640 [<.01%]: High school or School
5,640 [<.01%]: Billie Jean
5,635 [<.01%]: Pluto
5,622 [<.01%]: Meryl Streep
5,620 [<.01%]: Crack cocaine
5,615 [<.01%]: Marie Antoinette
5,611 [<.01%]: Rorschach (comics)
5,610 [<.01%]: Prime number
5,607 [<.01%]: Judy Garland
5,605 [<.01%]: High-definition television or Digital television or HDTV
5,605 [<.01%]: Sean Penn
5,605 [<.01%]: Hugh Laurie
5,600 [<.01%]: HDMI
5,599 [<.01%]: Bradley Cooper
5,598 [<.01%]: Mozart
5,598 [<.01%]: Dragon
5,594 [<.01%]: Greek mythology
5,592 [<.01%]: Television or TV
5,593 [<.01%]: Xbox 360 technical problems
5,590 [<.01%]: Football or Soccer (1833/day)
5,585 [<.01%]: Fibonacci number
5,580 [<.01%]: Mobile phone -
5,580 [<.01%]: Zoe Saldana or Zoe Saldaña
5,571 [<.01%]: Zimbabwe
5,570 [<.01%]: Hungary
5,565 [<.01%]: Jason Statham
5,560 [<.01%]: Skype
5,557 [<.01%]: Dinosaur
5,555 [<.01%]: Ghana
5,553 [<.01%]: Protein
5,550 [<.01%]: James Cameron
5,542 [<.01%]: Croatia
5,535 [<.01%]: Cyprus
5,530 [<.01%]: Alcohol
5,510 [<.01%]: User Datagram Protocol
5,504 [<.01%]: Jacob Black
5,496 [<.01%]: Mother Teresa
5,493 [<.01%]: List of billionaires
5,485 [<.01%]: Ethiopia
5,480 [<.01%]: Ocean or Pacific Ocean
5,458 [<.01%]: Hypertension
5,435 [<.01%]: Taken (film)
5,430 [<.01%]: Jennifer Love Hewitt
5,410 [<.01%]: Chocolate
5,396 [<.01%]: Colosseum
5,330 [<.01%]: Nikki Reed
5,328 [<.01%]: DMX (rapper)
5,270 [<.01%]: Divine Comedy
5,185 [<.01%]: Berlin
5,105 [<.01%]: Owl City (16,180/day final 3 months)
5,100 [<.01%]: Peyton Manning (10,882/day final 3 months)
5,004 [<.01%]: Amy Winehouse
4,695 [<.009]: Ninja
4,522 [<.009]: Oxygen
4,517 [<.009]: Haiti
4,320 [<.009]: Dolly Parton
4,160 [<.009]: Luxembourg or Luxemburg
4,135 [<.009]: Rod Stewart
4,130 [<.009]: Lithuania
4,104 [<.009]: Werewolf

(others in development for the Top 1000)

Some of top 1001–2000

1009. 5,597 [<.01%]: ? (170,708/month)
1011. 5,591 [<.01%]: ?
1014. 5,589 [<.01%]: ?
1015. 5,585 [<.01%]: ?
1019. 5,574 [<.01%]: ? (170,007/month)
1020. 5,570 [<.01%]: ?
1030. 5,560 [<.01%]: ?
1035. 5,550 [<.01%]: ?
1040? 5,504 [<.01%]: Jacob Black
1044. 5,492 [<.01%]: ? (167,506/month)
1048? 5,480 [<.01%]: Jack Black
1051? 5,475 [<.01%]: Tsunami (weekly cycle)
1052? 5,470 [<.01%]: Iraq
1053? 5,463 [<.01%]: Airbus A380 166,621
1056? 5,450 [<.01%]: Gran Torino (film) ~
1061? 5,678 [<.01%]: ? (Hurricane Katrina in 2010)
1071. 5,420 [<.01%]: Watergate scandal
1072. 5,418 [<.01%]: ? (165,249/month)
1073. 5,410 [<.01%]: Recession
1074. 5,405 [<.01%]: Neverland Ranch
1080? 5,388 [<.01%]: Mumbai
1081? 5,385 [<.01%]: Serbia
1090. 5,380 [<.01%]: ?

1111 5,448 [<.01%]: ? (166,164/month)
1112? 5,371 [<.01%]: Bad (album)
1113? 5,370 [<.01%]: Animal
1114. 5,327 [<.01%]: Atlantis
1115. 5,325 [<.01%]: Keira Knightley
1116. 5,323 [<.01%]: ? (162,352/month)
114x. 5,320 [<.01%]: Severus Snape
114x. 5,315 [<.01%]: Isla Fisher
115x. 5,280 [<.01%]: Hanukkah
115x. 5,250 [<.01%]: Sam Worthington
115x. 5,247 [<.01%]: Benito Mussolini
116x. 5,238 [<.01%]: Wineville Chicken Coop Murders
1170. 5,215 [<.01%]: ? (159,057/month)
117x. 5,207 [<.01%]: Haiku
117x. 5,205 [<.01%]: Manhattan
1177. 5,198 [<.01%]: ? (161,137/month)
1179. 5,150 [<.01%]: Gorillaz
1180. 5,138 [<.01%]: Kenya
1181. 5,116 [<.01%]: Condom
1182. 5,101 [<.01%]: Horse
1183. 5,100 [<.01%]: Keith Carradine
1184. 5,098 [<.01%]: Malta
1185. 5,095 [<.01%]: Julia Roberts
1186. 5,094 [<.01%]: River Phoenix
1187. 5,085 [<.01%]: Jew
1188. 5,080 [<.01%]: Ben 10
1189. 5,063 [<.01%]: Romanticism
1190. 5,062 [<.01%]: Television
1191. 5,060 [<.01%]: Eliza Dushku
1192. 5,056 [<.01%]: Moonwalk (dance)
1193. 5,052 [<.01%]: Heart rate
1194. 5,043 [<.01%]: Greek gods
1195. 5,040 [<.01%]: Characters of Watchmen
1196. 5,037 [<.01%]: Malaria
1197. 5,036 [<.01%]: Saturn
1198. 5,035 [<.01%]: Juventus F.C.
1199. 5,030 [<.01%]: The Catcher in the Rye
1200. 5,029 [<.01%]: A.C. Milan

1201 ? 152,195 (4990/day)
1202? Jazz 150,792 (4944/day)
1203? Beer 152,134 (4988/day)
1204? Bacteria 151341 (4962/day)
1205? Amanda Bynes 96892
1206? Hamlet 149510 (4902/day)
1207? Palestine 149480 (4901/day)
1208? Encyclopedia 149,450 (4900/day)
1209 ? 149, (4/day)
1210? Salma Hayek 148,809 (4879/day)
1211 Berlin 147497
1212 ? 172,874 (5668/day)
1215? Halo 3 147071 (4822/day)
1218? Obama 146,796 (4813/day)
1219? Morgan Freeman 146,300 (4812/day)
1220 cartoon network 105275 (Cartoon Network)
1230? Perez Hilton 159,400
1235 David Archuleta 154,750
1237 Kevin Jonas 150,060
1240 Playstation 2 150,000
1241? American Idol (season 8) 146,705
1242? Louisiana Purchase 146,369 (4799/day)
1243? Metaphor 146,339 (4798/day)
1247 Michael Vick 143500
1250 ?
1265 Moscow 136500
1270 Incest 135000
1275 Snake 134073

1315? Midnight Sun (novel) 150,182 (4924/day)
1320 ? 149,755 (4910/day)*
1324 ? 149,420 (4899/day)*
1325 Socrates 149,360 (4897/day)*
1330 808s & Heartbreak 133080
133x? I Am… Sasha Fierce 129900
1341 Rape 124155
1373 ? 148421 (4788/day)
1378 Brandon Lee 113215
1386 Physics 128301

1401 Film 127006
1405 ? (4739/day)
1431 Gene Simmons 77768
1438 ? 144,815 (4671/day)
1440? Stem cell 141,520 (4640/day)
1443 Death 141,030 (4624/day)
1444? E-mail or Email 140,696 (4613/day)
1445? Daniel Craig 139,293 (4568/day)
1449? Cum shot 139,110 (4561/day)
1467? John Locke 137220
1470? Diabetes 123,435
1471? Milk (film) 118950
1472? Titanic 117,650
1475? Cameron Diaz 115900
1480? Beijing 112,000
1485? Iron Man (film) 110,000
1490? Jason Earles 108,000

1530? Charlie's Angels 89,250
1580? Bollywood 134,596 (4413/day)
1596 ? 138,378 (4537/day)
1597 ? 136,689 (4409/day)
1600 Tennis 134,440 (4408/day)
1618 ? 133,498 (4377/day)
1630? Harry S. Truman 132,736 (4352/day)

1890? Blood 125,416 (4112/day)
1900? Werewolf 125,050 (4100/day)
1988 We Are the World 121,847 (3995/day)
1989 ? 121,817 (3994/day)
2034 ? 120,871 (3963/day)
3705 ? 99,172 (3200/day)
4100? Vanessa Redgrave 95,760 (3040/day)
4500? Yao Ming 83,479 (2737/day)
5000? Bobby Jindal 73,760 (2418/day)
6102 ? 65,963 (2128/day)
9999? Giovanni Ribisi 56,913 (1866/day) ~

Lower interest

The articles below were read less than 20,000 times per month, lower than above, but many still attracted wide readership. Articles read less than 50x times, per month, are somewhat questionable. However, Wikipedia bases notability on sources: if a topic appeared in mainstream media, but is read less than 20 times per month, that is acceptable. Notability is not tied to popularity with readers.

-- yacht 19566
-- day 19180
-- timpani 19178
-- The Grass Roots 19126
-- chair 19078
-- piccolo 18924
-- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 18738
-- cubic zirconia 18642
-- stream 18565
-- NSA 17333
-- Merlot 17277
-- Miss Piggy 16986
-- BOLT 16954
-- Adam 16682
-- Pony 16427
-- Acapulco 15684
-- Adriatic Sea 15524
-- Reno, Nevada 15449
-- Dead presidents 15339
-- Feta cheese 15268
-- Slum 15234
-- Titan 15095
-- US Air Force 14382
-- Maltese cross 14217
-- charity 13903
-- juice 13902
-- Dead reckoning 12398
-- me 12070
-- Mice 11192
-- Champagne 11059
-- Palo Alto 10968
-- OK 10816
-- Sirloin 10783
-- Zinfandel 10624
-- Slave 10447
-- Swiss cheese 10388
-- table 10116

-- Amor 10007
-- Periscope 10007

-- Golden Girls 9953
-- Help 9844
-- Janitor 9689
-- kindness 9662
-- Velveeta 9267
-- nail 9235
-- I Spy 9219
-- camembert (cheese) 8980
-- cardinal 8955
-- Provolone 8496
-- Regatta 8142
-- trend 8034
-- London broil 7891
-- nanosecond 7355
-- US Marines 7329
-- limb 6953
-- Juice Newton 6766
-- brook 6407
-- 77 Sunset Strip 5584
-- Tele 5471
-- Secret 5330
-- Havarti 5320
-- Top Secret 5235
-- Feta 5035 (Feta cheese as 15268)
-- Get a life 4504
-- As Time Goes By 4437
-- Gouda 4338
-- shelf 4009
-- triode 3895
-- DaVinci 3891
-- Rook 3878
-- Secret Agent 3872
-- Dave Clark Five 3724

-- US Coast Guard 3659
-- bongo 3358
-- Help! 3193
-- Surfside 6 3185
-- Picosecond 2910
-- projects 2893
-- The Name of the Game 2789
-- McMillan and Wife 2556
-- Servant 2322
-- Kermit 2188
-- Reeses Pieces 2156
-- Found 2066
-- Amore 1950
-- Porterhouse 1915
-- bookcase 1833
-- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. 1820
-- Gruyere 1802
-- Cabernet 1770
-- tune 1734
-- Warsaw Concerto 1526
-- Denver Colorado 1295
-- Stone Poneys 1258 (Linda Ronstadt 39224)
-- Dweeb 1213
-- S.O.S. 1189
-- Pepper jack cheese 1141
-- Fine dining 1101
-- Romano 1091
-- hillside 1068
-- Ribeye 1062
-- Grounded 933
-- Manchester, England 624
-- Trendy 513
-- adz 475
-- Staravia 173
-- Floatzel 147
-- monterrey jack 62
-- XBI 2

Reminder about list inaccuracy

Again, for the revisions of this essay in July/November 2009, the lists of articles were thrown together within just a few days, rather than the weeks or months needed to accurately rank the more than 10,000 top articles, balanced across the whole year. The Top 1000 articles are especially skewed toward data from early-mid 2009. However, the articles below 10,000 have monthly-count figures mainly from March-May 2009, rather than collecting data for all 365 days during 2009, and dividing by 12 to calculate an "average" month.

Some entries (such as "404 error/") may be generated by bot programs. Perhaps the top 1,030 entries should be considered for the "Top 1000" articles.

Do not rely too heavily on the rank ordering of articles as shown in this essay. Rank figures are approximate for the year.

Estimating for 365 days

The data was averaged from website Grok.se (such as stats.grok.se/en/2009/Charles_Darwin); however, 8 (or more) days were not recorded for most pages, and had to be estimated. The non-recorded days were typically estimated by comparing the page-views of nearby days, but if the missing data fell on a one-event day, then that day was very difficult to estimate (such as the count with a shocking event). The missing days (non-recorded days) in the Grok database for 2009 are as follows:

September 23/25-27 (Wednesday/Friday-Sunday), or pages after "Speck" lack 6 days: 21/23-27
October 14-16 (Wednesday-Friday)
November 15 & 22 (Sundays)

Each Grok-webpage entry's year total (coded as "/2009/") omits all the September data, so data for "/200909/" was added into the total for each page, and the missing days were estimated as follows:

Sept. 23/25-27 (Wednesday/Friday-Sunday) were added as prior week Sept. 16/18-20 or averaged counts.
October 14-16 (Wednesday-Friday) were added as counts Oct. 7-9 or 21-23 or averaged when not a weekly cycle.
November 15 & 22 (Sundays) were added as the count for either similar Sunday November 8 or 29.

When the pageviews seemed to be steady for a particular title during the 12 months, then the missing days were ignored, since they would not significantly alter the average of the other 356 days of the year.

Because of the time needed to estimate the 8-11 missing days for most entries, the ranking of all entries became very tedious and took weeks to re-rank and edit. Hence, expect some estimation errors among those 8,000 to 11,000 estimated daily page-views. However, year 2009 was the first year when most entries could be easily estimated for all 365 days, because year 2008 had 20 missing days in the month of July 2008 (plus 3 missing in Jan./Nov.) which were very difficult to estimate.

Notes

^ "Monthly wiki page Hits for en.wikipedia", Falsikon.de, August 2009, webpage (CPU compute-bound): fals-wik-en.

[ This essay is a draft thrown together in weeks, rather than the months needed. ]

[fal-1] "Monthly wiki page Hits for en.wikipedia", Falsikon.de, August 2009, webpage (CPU compute-bound): fals-wik-en.

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Wikipedia:Most read articles in 2009

Contents

Top 1000 articles

Some of top 1001–2000

Lower interest

Top nations read in 2008 (prior year)

Top people read in 2008 (prior year)

Reminder about list inaccuracy

Estimating for 365 days

See also

Notes