Wikipedia page views

What it is

Wikipedia counts how many times each article is opened. For each US-listed company with an English Wikipedia article, this feed compares the article's views over the last 7 days with its own daily average over the 90 days before that. A change of 2.0× means the article is being opened twice as often as usual.

Who files it

Wikimedia, the foundation behind Wikipedia, publishes daily view counts for every article. We match each article to a company through Wikidata, using the company's SEC CIK number.

How current

Wikimedia publishes a day's views about a day later, and we collect them every morning, so the latest day is usually two days old.

Terms

Change (×)The article's average daily views over the last 7 days, divided by its average daily views over the 90 days before that. 1.0× is normal, 3.0× is three times as many.

Worth knowing

Views measure attention for any reason: results, a lawsuit, a product launch, a viral story, a school assignment or automated traffic. They do not say whether the news is good or bad. Some company names are shared with other topics, and some articles cover a brand or a parent group rather than the listed company alone, so check what the article is about. We count the views Wikimedia classes as coming from people rather than known crawlers, but some automated traffic can still get through. Articles with few views swing widely, so by default those averaging under 50 a day are left out. Most articles are quieter at weekends.

This comes from Wikimedia's public page-view data.