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Traffic report

Shutdown shenanigans

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Summary: If you're living in the United States, what did you do during the government shutdown? Well, it seems most people watched the final episode of Breaking Bad. Real life and fantasy clashed head on this week, as the first government shutdown in 17 years coincided with the series finale of one of the most popular television shows of recent times. TV beat real life by a hair.

For the week of September 29 to October 4, the 10 most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most trafficked pages* were:

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Just curious, why was Lycos and G-force not included? They polled higher than Gravity. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:57, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Been busy this week, so didn't do my usual in-depth coverage, but "g-force" and "Lycos" are standard removals, because they always chart and I can never find a plausible reason for them to do so. Serendi ^pod ous 01:01, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See, now, I only asked, Serendi ^pod ous, because I was hoping you could explain why either (but especially Lycos) were so popular! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 14:43, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The general consensus for "G-force"(or "G", which also charts often) is that people are typing "G" for "Google" into Google Chrome's search bar and then hastily clicking "Enter". As for Lycos, no idea, but I suspect artificial inflation, ala Yahoo a few weeks back. Serendi ^pod ous 15:15, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

We keep seeing Facebook in these traffic reports, but not other popular websites like Twitter, YouTube or Google. Is there any chance that the statistics are being manipulated somehow? --Guy Macon (talk) 21:29, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Other websites always appear in the top 25; it's just that Facebook happens to be the most popular website on Earth right now. Serendi ^pod ous 01:01, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I imagine there's also a high degree of looking for facebook.com and getting the WP article. Bounce rate stats would clear that up czar ♔ 21:27, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, for Twitter, many people use it via third party apps or mobile devices, not the website. But Serendipodous has a longer list, you can see last weeks at User:Serendipodous/Top25. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Liz (talk • contribs) 01:59, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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