[WikiEN-l] Weekly cycles to Wikipedia traffic

[David Gerard]

On 01/04/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:

> Raw page views seem to peak on Sunday and are lower at other times of
> the week, though there's a smaller second sawtooth around Wednesday.


Raw page views peak Sunday afternoon/evening US time. This is
notoriously the busiest time on the site and is when you're most
likely to hit a "sorry we're overloaded" message (though I haven't
gotten one of those in ages myself). Not sure why there's a Wednesday
peak as well though.


- d.