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They mentioned 5M views within 24 hours of Michael Jackson's death. With over 3B Internet users out there, I am actually a little surprised how small the spike

by yeukhon 11y ago

They mentioned 5M views within 24 hours of Michael Jackson's death. With over 3B Internet users out there, I am actually a little surprised how small the spike was. Did they only count English Wikipedia? Even so I am quite surprised. I would expect 10-20M at least. Similarly, many young people like myself have never heard of Prince, I had to look him up to find out who he truly was.

sparkzilla 11y ago
Just out of interest, did you go directly to Wikipedia to find the information, or did you go to Google, which then led you to Wikipedia?
- yeukhon 11y ago
  Always Google, which leads me to Wikipedia. Almost literally every time...
cooper12 11y ago
They recently overhauled it, [0] but back then the pageviews [1] wouldn't count mobile users. You can see the old stats for Jackon's page here: http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/Michael%20Jackson http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/Michael%20Jackson. The actual number is 5,875,404 views within that day (in whichever time zone) and is for the English version of the article specifically. [0]: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/14/pageview-data-easily-accessible/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/14/pageview-data-easily-a... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pageview_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pageview_statistics
- yeukhon 11y ago
  Thanks. Yeah, I think mobile viewer would be a substainal amount, but desktop user count is still below my personal expectation. We are talking about 850M English speaking Internet users :( only 6M page view within 24 hours is really quite low.
SmellyGeekBoy 11y ago
As an "old" person (I'm 32) it blows my mind that younger generations might not be familiar with Prince's work. Unfortunately these "damn, I'm old!" moments keep cropping up more and more just lately. ;)
rompic 11y ago
this is what was going on on twitter at this time: http://tweetfortat.net/timeploteventsTWAPPERKEEPERjacko.php5 http://tweetfortat.net/timeploteventsTWAPPERKEEPERjacko.php5

by yeukhon 11y ago

sparkzilla 11y ago

Just out of interest, did you go directly to Wikipedia to find the information, or did you go to Google, which then led you to Wikipedia?

yeukhon 11y ago
Always Google, which leads me to Wikipedia. Almost literally every time...

cooper12 11y ago

They recently overhauled it, [0] but back then the pageviews [1] wouldn't count mobile users. You can see the old stats for Jackon's page here: http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/Michael%20Jackson http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/Michael%20Jackson. The actual number is 5,875,404 views within that day (in whichever time zone) and is for the English version of the article specifically. [0]: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/14/pageview-data-easily-accessible/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/14/pageview-data-easily-a... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pageview_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pageview_statistics

yeukhon 11y ago
Thanks. Yeah, I think mobile viewer would be a substainal amount, but desktop user count is still below my personal expectation. We are talking about 850M English speaking Internet users :( only 6M page view within 24 hours is really quite low.

SmellyGeekBoy 11y ago

As an "old" person (I'm 32) it blows my mind that younger generations might not be familiar with Prince's work. Unfortunately these "damn, I'm old!" moments keep cropping up more and more just lately. ;)

rompic 11y ago

this is what was going on on twitter at this time: http://tweetfortat.net/timeploteventsTWAPPERKEEPERjacko.php5 http://tweetfortat.net/timeploteventsTWAPPERKEEPERjacko.php5