Wikinews:Awareness statistics

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This page is the Wikinews equivalent of Wikipedia's awareness statistics. Its purpose is to collect a wide range of data within regular intervals on how Wikinews is perceived on the Internet and offline. See also Wikinews:Modelling Wikinews' growth. Note this is most likely quite outdated.

See also: Page Hits toplist (compare traffic | searches)

Average amount of visits

To date, July has yielded 28,500 average individual visits per day.

Visits per day

Graph of visits per day, July 2005

This is a calculation of the visits per day on selected days. It is based on Wikinews Usage Statistics - the statistics on that page no longer display visits per day, a vital statistic we use for the following data.

Visits per day
Date	No. of visits	Notes
July 5, 2005	9,470	Woohoo! We have statistics!
July 7, 2005	72,075	London bombings
July 10, 2005	16,712	Aftermath of bombing
July 15, 2005	11,923	Uh oh...
August 21, 2005	404,176

Main page hits per day
Date	No. of visits	Notes
November 10, 2007	34 867 ± 1%	Init

News Article Count

News articles per month

Many of the pages created each month here at Wikinews are talk pages, user pages, admin pages, so it can be difficult to grasp how many news articles are published each month. That's why I've compiled the following information from old categorizations and digests. It should be fairly accurate, althought the figures will not add up to the total number of legitimate articles according to the stats page. This is due to a) less reliable figures for dec and nov, exclusion of pages such as tsunami help, exclusion of pages never properly published on main page - but still in existence.

Articles per month
Month	No. of Articles	% change on last month	Notes
November, 2004	72	-	Good Start
December, 2004	116	61.1%
January, 2005	211	81.9%
February, 2005	245	16.1%
March, 2005	356	45.3%
April, 2005	430	20.8%
May, 2005	275	-36.1%	Oh no...
June, 2005	241	-12.4%	Too much time spent arguing...SO STOP
July, 2005	386	60.17%	Strongest growth since January
August, 2005	254*	-34.20%	What goes up...
September, 2005	361
October, 2005	256
November, 2005	203
December, 2005	291
January, 2006	350
February, 2006	250		Only 28 days

See also: wikistats new article per day
This can also be calculated through the category statistics tool.

Alexa traffic ranking

Alexa traffic ranking for Wikinews.org (1 week average)
Date	Rank	Daily	Notes
February 27, 2005	18,226	-
March 1, 2005	29,735	-
March 3, 2005	36,944	-
March 10, 2005	34,705	-
March 13, 2005	29,851	-
March 14, 2005	25,265	-
March 17, 2005	22,668	-
March 21, 2005	28,198	-
March 24, 2005	23,426	10,098	Writing Contest is working!
March 26, 2005	23,066	47,609	We need another Wendy's story! Anyone have a spare finger? :)
March 27, 2005	24,811	22,513	David was worrying too much yesterday. All is fine!
March 28, 2005	20,634	18,729	Effects of Easter Sunday have worn off!
March 29, 2005	18,247	16,077	The eggs are hatching.
March 31, 2005	23,092	21,467
April 1, 2005	21,265	18,188	Our traffic rank seems to be stabilising at about the 20,000 mark
April 2, 2005	17,117	9,851	2nd highest daily ever!
April 4, 2005	15,182	9,960
April 7, 2005	15,989	36,352	Damn!
April 11, 2005	24,644	14,807
April 23, 2005	17,479	13,953
April 24, 2005	14,708	189,220	Looks like our highest ever!
May 1, 2005	15,116	18,788
May 12, 2005	17,878	13,094
May 26, 2005	23,386	13,016	Best in a fortnight
May 31, 2005	26,304	30,880
June 5, 2005	33,656	83,023	Worst daily since end of Feb
June 6, 2005	26,703	12,834
June 14, 2005	23,346	9,149	New record!
June 24, 2005	21,330	13,330
July 1, 2005	19,431	18,681
July 8, 2005	17,295	7,993	New daily record - sadly as a result of london bombings
July 10, 2005	13,161	7,087	New weekly record!
July 30, 2005	18,405	10,661
August 15, 2005	25,918	17,682
August 24, 2005	13,133	15,735
February 9, 2006	8,078	17,554
February 14, 2006	6,719	5,212	Best 1 week avg and daily ever
November 16, 2006	17,284	-	Traffic is getting better!

Starting table with different columns:

Alexa traffic ranking for Wikinews.org (1 week average)
Date	Today	1 wk. Avg	3 mos. Avg	reach (today)	page views today/1 week	Notes
March 6, 2006	13,630	12,377	9,537
August 29, 2006	17,689	11,185	10,392			that doesn't look good...
January 7, 2007	11,873	8,799	11,886 (↓ 371)	125 ( ↓ 3%)	2.7 (↑ 9%)	nevermind, low is good (I think)
April 16, 2007	16 219	18 275	14 823	0.0105% (↓ 25%)	1.8 (↓ 12%)	Alexa changes reach to percent
June 28, 2007	23,183	17,812	16, 056 (↓ 2 914	0.009% (↓ 18%)	1.5 (↓ 4%)
October 5, 2007	14,593	14 978	15 488 (↓ 2 117	0.012% (↓ 7%)	2.3 ( 0%)	Giant bump (0.1% → 0.25%) in reach graph on late June 2007
November 1, 2007	12, 681	16 505	16 455 (↓ 863)	0.014% (↓ 1%)	2.3 Today, 2.1 avg ( 0%)	small bump in last half of september reach (0.009% to ~0.016%)
December 13, 2007	23 323	19 516	16 352 (↓ 976)	0.008% (↓ 5%)	2.0 Today, 2.1 avg (↑ 5%)
January 3, 2008	19 204	19 900	17 568 (↓ 868)	0.0085% (↓ 1%)	2.0 Today, 1.9 avg ( 0%)	Alexa doesn't hate us quite as much as usual
January 27, 2008	3 538	10 073	17 485 (↓ 308)	0.0635% (↑ 3%)	1.3 Today, 1.8 avg ( 0%)	Holy crap Highest yet by a lot. See also wc
April 8, 2008	21 034	18 634	15 700 (↑ 1 922)	0.009% (↑ 20%)	1.9 Today, 1.9 avg (↓ 5%)	Green up arrows!!!
July 11, 2009	15 714	13 148	13 173 (↓ 440)	0.0078% (↑ 3%)	3.3 Today, 2.12 avg (↓ -14%)

RSS feed circulation

Current: Main feed statistics

As of March 22, 2006: 4,018 subscribers. A typical story has 300 reads.

Update on RSS feed circulation: readership jumped from 5,500 to 21,000 on December 12 2006, and then increased again to 36,000 on December 20. Currently just over 30,000 readers access the RSS feed each day. Get writing, people are reading! Dan100 (Talk) 14:59, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Visits per day
Date	Number of readers (subscribers)	Average reads per story	notes
March 22, 2006	4,018	~300
May 6, 2006			This is When Rss feed became <link>ed [1]
December 12, 2006	21,000		jumped from 5 500 to 21 000
December 20, 2006	36 000		Jumping again
June 29, 2007	11,784		from [2]
February 21, 2009	10,790		acc. to FeedBurner

Comparison to other Wikimedia Projects

English language Wikimedia Projects by Size of Registered User Base:

The highest-ranking wiki in each category is marked in gold, the second highest in silver and the third highest in bronze.

* As of 10 April 2010 (UTC) – Source: Statistics Page for each project. **Compiled at User:Davodd/Wikistats.**
Rank	Wiki	Started	Reg. Users	Admins	New Users Since Last Measure	User Growth Rate	Per-Month Average User Growth Since Launch	Number of Legit Articles	New Articles Since Last Measure	Article Growth Rate
1.	Wikipedia	January 2001	12,085,693	1,716	10,503,136	764%	108,880 (111 mo.)	3,250,398	2,010,186	1,149%
2.	Meta-Wiki	November 2002	2,287,380	73	2,261,025	8,579%	25,701 (89 mo.)	17,399	9,886	132%
3.	Wikicommons	September 2004	1,101,731	266	1,055,248	2,370%	2,213 (67 mo.)	644,661	627,393	3,633%
4.	Wiktionary	December 2002	352,029	100	337,117	2,261%	4,000 (88 mo.)	1,678,086	1,528,848	1,024%
5.	Wikibooks	July 2003	342,889	13	313,823	1,080%	4,233 (81 mo.)	34,778	21,331	159%
6.	Wikiquote	July 2003	243,945	22	233,164	2,163%	3,012 (81 mo.)	17,949	11,139	164%
7.	Wikiversity	August 2006	215,335	25	--	--	4,894 (44 mo.)	12,325	--	--
8.	Wikinews	December 2004	202,057	61	193,767	2,337%	3,061 (66 mo.)	16,724	11,237	205%
9.	Wikispecies	September 2004	161,424	23	158,688	5,800%	2,446 (66 mo.)	220,534	163,510	287%
10.	Wikisource	November 2003	18,181	13	13,177	263%	236 (77 mo.)	10,590	7,852	287%

Google hits

Total Google hits for "Wikinews" (On sites outside of the Wikinews, Wikimedia, and Wikipedia domains)
Date	Hits
February 27, 2005	96,300
March 1, 2005	95,600
March 12, 2005	93,000
March 24, 2005	112,000
March 26, 2005	113,000
March 27, 2005	114,000
March 29, 2005	120,000
March 30, 2005	119,000
March 31, 2005	122,000
April 2, 2005	121,000
April 7, 2005	149,000
April 15, 2005	184,000
April 23, 2005	196,000
May 1, 2005	248,000
May 31, 2005	219,000
June 5, 2005	238,000
July 1, 2005	237,000
July 30, 2005	277,000
August 24, 2005	332,000
August 30, 2005	437,000
February 9, 2006	1,060,000
March 6, 2006	877,000
June 30, 2006	1,020,000
August 29, 2006	1,170,000
January 7, 2007	1,080,000
April 16, 2007	1,110,000
June 29, 2007	1,470,000
October 5, 2007	1,860,000
November 1, 2007	3,110,000
December 13, 2007	3,160,000
January 3, 2008	3,430,000
April 8, 2008	887,000
July 11, 2009	445,000

Google Groups hits

Google Groups hits per month

Hits on Google Groups (includes Usenet and wikimedia mail) Hits for the word "Wikinews" within a month
Date	Hits	Notes
November 2005	6
December 2005	14
January 2005	12
February 2005	11
March 2005	6
April 2005	14
May 2005	14
June 2005	17
July 2005	39
August 2005	22
September 2005	--
October 2005	--
November 2005	--
December 2005	--
January 2006	--
February 9, 2006	394
March 6, 2006	461
August 29, 2006	904
January 7, 2007	1 160
April 16, 2007	1,370	well google likes us, alexa doesn't
June 28, 2007	1,470	Guess the wrestler hasn't hit usenet
October 5, 2007	7,390	Might include some mailing lists
November 1, 2007	1 190	Definitly includes some mailing lists
December 13, 2007	248 000	Wow! google must have changed something
January 3, 2007	248 000	hmm, zero change. thats rather odd
April 8, 2008	434,000
July 11, 2009	68,600

Google News hits

Hits for the term "Wikinews"in Google News each month

Hits on Google News (~~includes Usenet~~) Hits on Google News (various news sources) for the word "Wikinews" within a month
Date	Hits	Notes
January 2005	2
February 2005	22
March 2005	19	World Forum keeping us afloat
April 2005	15
May 2005	4	The ship is sinking...
June 2005	19	Yippee
July 2005	40	Google testing wikinews feed
August 2005	19	Downhill again
February 2006	33
March 6, 2006	77	Appears to be the result of Juicee News Daily reusing our articles
April 13, 2006	17	UGH!!
June 30, 2006	32	need to remember to update more
August 29, 2006	28
January 7, 2007	5	and one is a mirror who gives a 404 when clicked
April 16, 2007	0	wow, what a good feeling. maybe some of our mirrors got moved into blog search
June 29, 2007	27	due to Death of Nancy Benoit rumour posted on Wikipedia hours prior to body being found
June 29, 2007	201	(~18 hours later)
October 5, 2007	19	Afrique en ligne (mirror): 9, Wikinews Reports: 8
November 1, 2007	51	/. is considered a news source for Google news?!
December 13, 2007	28	lots of mirrors (but good mirrors, not your I don't know what to do with this domain so I'm going to mirror wikinews)
January 3, 2008	32	some mirrors and the wn blog, but also some articles about us (but mostly to the tune of little used side project)
April 8, 2008	35
July 11, 2009	180	Inflated, since it includes us in the results now.

Technorati hits

Hits for the term "Wikinews" on Technorati (a major blog search engine)

Hits on Technorati Total hits on Technorati (a weblog search engine) for the word "Wikinews"
Date	Hits	Within 24hr	Google blog search	Notes
February 27, 2005	1,465
March 1, 2005	1,501
March 12, 2005	1,630
March 24, 2005	1,790
March 26, 2005	1,863
March 27, 2005	1,891
March 28, 2005	1,925
March 31, 2005	1,983
April 1, 2005	1,995
April 2, 2005	2,027
April 7, 2005	2,131
April 15, 2005	2,260
April 23, 2005	2,309
May 1, 2005	2,370
May 11, 2005	2,427
May 31, 2005	2,506
June 5, 2005	2,524
June 15, 2005	2,582
July 1, 2005	2,683
July 8, 2005	2,907	20
July 30, 2005	3,229	20
August 15, 2005	3,330	20
August 30, 2005	3,483	6
February 9, 2006	4,599	20
March 6, 2006	4,719
April 13, 2006	5,056
August 29, 2006	6,323			whats the 24 hour thing?
January 7, 2007	4,104			quite a few are mirrors
April 16, 2007	1,482		14,918	added google blog search
June 29, 2007	2,115		93,290	boosted by Death of Nancy Benoit rumour Wikipedia
June 29, 2007	2,185		93,341	(~18 hours later)
October 5, 2007	856		87,783	I'm really hoping technocrati changed their search algorithm
November 1, 2007	33		3 093	hmm. Things down slightly. Technocrati looks different
December 13, 2007	3 427		248 901	Technocrati changed search url
January 3, 2008	3,656		247,738
April 8, 2008	3,593		426,836
July 11, 2009	1,425		39,843