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Wikipedia Trends
Find the Wikipedia articles for your topic and see how often they are viewed and where the trend is heading.
Wikipedia Trends
- finds the Wikipedia articles for your keyword or checks your own Wikipedia URLs
- shows the page views of the past 30 days and 12 months, the trend and the change from last year
- shows the bot share, split into declared and undeclared bots
- detail view with a monthly chart and related articles, sortable and as CSV
Why Wikipedia page views?
Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in the world. How often an article is viewed is a pretty good indicator of how much interest there is in a topic and whether it is growing or shrinking.
Unlike search volume, the numbers are updated daily and freely available for every article. This lets you spot seasonal topics, new trends and terms that are losing relevance. For choosing topics, planning seasonal content and structuring your texts, it is a good addition to search volume.
How the tool works
Search: Enter a keyword and choose the language of Wikipedia. The tool uses the Wikipedia full-text search and shows you the first 15 articles. This also finds articles that only mention your keyword in the text. The excerpt below each article shows you why it was found.
Your own URLs: If you know exactly which articles you are interested in, enter up to 20 Wikipedia URLs or article titles directly, even from different languages. Redirects are resolved automatically.
Metrics: Past 30 days and Past 12 months are the total views up to yesterday. Daily views compares the current month with the same days of last year’s month, which gives the YoY change. The trend shows the average daily views over the past 12 months. Click a column header to sort the table.
Details and related articles: Click Details to expand an article. You then see the monthly views as a chart, split into humans and bots, and the related articles for this term. Click Search to start a new search for any of them. This way you work your way through a topic step by step.
The data comes from the official Wikimedia pageviews API and is updated daily.
Why the bot share matters
Not every view of a Wikipedia article comes from a human. Wikimedia distinguishes two kinds of bots: Declared bots identify themselves, for example the crawlers of search engines and AI companies. Undeclared bots pose as a normal browser and are detected by Wikimedia from their behavior.
All views columns in the tool count humans only. The bot share shows how many of all views in the past 12 months came from bots. For small articles it is often above 50%. If views suddenly rise sharply, take a look at the detail view: if the increase comes mainly from bots, there is usually no real interest behind it.
How often a term is searched on Google is shown by the search volume tool. Find more keyword ideas with Ultrasuggest and the Question Tool.