Doodle doesn't point directly to the wikipedia article. It only does search for the name. Wikipedia being the first result gets a lot of traffic but there obviously isn't 100% CTR.
It's been on my todo-list for a long time to make stats.grok.se into something more useful and present more info there - for example graphs over (longer) times. Also the design is a bit dated. :)
I do have about three years worth of Wikipedia article traffics stored, so I could do long term tracking and some interesting data mining, but I keep getting side tracked into other hobby projects.
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That's all? Would have expected much more. Or is was this a "Sweden-only" doodle?
Ah, face palm: it's currently on the Google Homepage and the US hasn't really woken up yet...
But the UK's been awake all day (it's 3:12pm) - so very surprising that it's only generated 180k visits.
Maybe most people simply don't click the Google Doodle?
Seems strange.
Yes, there will be many more hits for the next days stats.
Random example: http://stats.grok.se/en/201108/Pierre_de_Fermat
That doodle was from Aug 17 2011 - 2.3M hits
Doodle doesn't point directly to the wikipedia article. It only does search for the name. Wikipedia being the first result gets a lot of traffic but there obviously isn't 100% CTR.
It only presents stats for entire days, so it'll show today's hits tomorrow (it updates an hour or so after midnight GMT).
most people go to google because they're looking for something. that something isn't typically the subject of the google doodle.
Hey maybe someone should do a graph over time on this
It's been on my todo-list for a long time to make stats.grok.se into something more useful and present more info there - for example graphs over (longer) times. Also the design is a bit dated. :)
I do have about three years worth of Wikipedia article traffics stored, so I could do long term tracking and some interesting data mining, but I keep getting side tracked into other hobby projects.
I am curious, how do you get access to Wikipedia statistics?
There's a lot of information made available at http://stats.wikimedia.org/