Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 7 (section)

== Popularity of pages ==

Is there a way to see how many "hits" each page gets? I'm not talking about some massive popularity list... but is there something I can type in the URL to see the stats on individual pages? Or what is the best alternative? Thanks. [[User:Wodan|Wodan]] 14:39, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)

:The best I can point you at is the [http://wikimedia.org/stats/en.wikipedia.org/ Webalizer stats for en]. If you click on a month, it'll display a page with all sorts of statistics, including the most accessed URLs. I don't know how accurate the numbers are, and they appear not to take into account hits on the squids (99.31% of hits are special and editing).

:Still gives you an idea where people are going. The Olympic Games pages are popular, as are the articles on Bush and Kerry. Some "in the news" subjects like [[Mary Kay Letourneau]], [[Rick James]], and [[Jim McGreevey]] show up, as well as perennial favorites [[List of sex positions]], [[Penis]], and [[Pornography]].

:MediaWiki does have an internal hit counter, but it is disabled for performance reasons. -- [[User:Cyrius|Cyrius]]|[[User talk:Cyrius|✎]] 15:10, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)