In redesigning the page, we should take into account not just what we, as Wikipedians, like to see on the main page, but also how regular readers actually use the main page.
To that end, I've compiled some hit count statistics from Henry's traffic tool. All these numbers are from June 25, the most recent Wednesday (peak traffic day) for which stats are available.
Today's featured article (Tiridates I of Armenia) edit
- Tiridates I of Armenia: 29.6k
- Thumbnail: 19.3k
- Armenia: 13.0k (up from 5k typically)
- Arsacid Dynasty of Armenia:5.0k
- Arsacid Dynasty: 2.9k
- Roman relations with the Parthians and Sassanians:3.4k
- Vologases I of Parthia:1.5k
- Nero:8.4k (up from 6k typically)
- De facto:4.2k (up from 3k typically)
- Parthia:6.0k
- Zoroastrianism:10.9k (up from 2.5k typically)
- Franz Cumont:2.4k
- Satellite state:1.8k
- Mithraism:6.8k
- Previous TFAs:
- Bradley Joseph:4.0k
- Blue Iguana:4.4k
- Judy Garland:9.5k (up from 4k typically)
- Navigation links
- Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 2008:1.4k
- Wikipedia:Featured articles:4.5k (background unknown but probably high)
- Total clicks from TFA box: about 113 thousand
Did you know (June 25 revisions) edit
Update 1 (total time: 4:17) edit
- Budweiser Clydesdales:6.3k
- Image:Budweiser Clydesdales Boston.jpg:5.3k
- Prohibition in the United States:1.7k (no increase over background)
- Engkanto:5.1k
- Philippine mythology:1.3k (background .7k)
- Friar:.6k (background .3k)
- South Presbyterian Church: .6k
- Dobbs Ferry, New York:.2k (background .1k)
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation:.2k (background .1k)
- Architect: 2.0k (no increase over background)
- Endeavour Strait: 2.5k
- Eastern Australia: .1k
- James Cook:2.7k (no increase over background)
- In All Languages (Godflesh album):.4k
- Compilation album:.7k (no increase over background)
- Industrial metal:.8k (background .7k)
- Godflesh: .7k (background .2k)
- Deux Balés National Park:.3k
- Burkina Faso:2.2k (no increase over background)
- Ferrante Pallavicino:1.1k
- Satire:2.4k (no increase over background)
- Bride of Christ: .5k
- Roman Catholic Church:3.6k (no increase over background)
- Jesus Christ (redirect): 1.3k (no increase over background)
- Can You Hear Me:1.2k (background .5k)
- Enrique Iglesias:4.3k (no increase over background)
- Seven Nation Army:3.3k (background 1.6k)
- The White Stripes:4.5k (background 4.0k)
- UEFA Euro 2008:54.6k (no increase over background)
Total: 26.8 thousands
In the news (June 25 revisions) edit
- thumbnail 1 (now deleted, of Typhoon Fengshen):3.5k
- thumbnail 2:89.4k
- Phoenix (spacecraft):53.5k
- Ice:7.2k (background level 2k)
- Mars:16.7k (background level 10k)
- NASA:14.1k (background level 4.5k)
- Sublimation (chemistry):26.0k
- Zimbabwean presidential election, 2008:5.1k
- Zimbabwe:17.1k (background level 5k)
- Morgan Tsvangirai:5.8k
- Robert Mugabe:23.5k (background 5k but fluctuating upward with events in Zimbabwe)
- Typhoon Fengshen (2008): 9.3k
- Philippines:15k (background 13k)
- MV Princess of the Stars:13.7k
- Ocean Surface Topography Mission:2.4k
- CNES: 0.8k
- Physical oceanography:1.2k
- Srebrenica massacre:15.6k
- United Nations:6.5k (no increase over background)
- Netherlands:11.2k (no increase over background)
- Dutchbat:5.1k
- FRA law:1.4k
- Anti-terrorism legislation: 0.3k
- Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment: 0.6k
- Sweden: 8k (no increase over background)
- E-mail:6.6k (background level 6k)
- Battle of Arghandab: 0.4k
- (related links had too little traffic to notice increase, since this item was only there for a short time on June 25)
- Total clicks from ITN box: about 289 thousand
On this day (June 25) edit
(Hard to say with some of these how much traffic is independent of the Main Page...probably a lot for national holidays, and not much the others)
- Statehood Day:1.9k
- Statehood Day (Croatia):2.1k
- Statehood Day (Slovenia):1.5k
- Rainbow flag (LGBT movement): 0.3k (no increase over background)
- Gay community: 0.3k (no increase over background)
- Augsburg Confession: 8.4k
- Lutheran Church:1.1k
- Holy Roman Emperor:1.7k (background level 0.7k)
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor:2.9k (background 1.7k)
- Diet of Augsburg:1.2k
- Battle of the Little Bighorn:45.3k (background 2k)
- George Armstrong Custer:25.8k (background 2k)
- Custer thumbnail:18.4k
- Big Horn County, Montana:2.1k
- Black Hills War:8.4k
- United States Army:5.4k (background 5.1k)
- Montana: 3.9k (background 3.2k)
- Douglas Hyde:4.4k
- President of Ireland:1.9k (background 0.3k)
- Our World:10.2k
- Satellite television:2.0k (background 1.4k)
- Kim Campbell:10.7k (background .7k)
- Prime Minister of Canada: 1.7k (background .9k)
- Khobar Towers bombing:10.4k
- Khobar:.7k (background .2k)
- Saudi Arabia: 7.2k (no increase over background)
- Total clicks from anniversaries box: about 153 thousand
Picture of the day edit
- Image:Restless flycatcher04.jpg: 28.7k
- Restless Flycatcher:6.1k
- Passerine:3.8k (background .5k)
- Australia: 17.7k (no increase over background)
- Papua New Guinea: 3.0k (background 2.5k)
- Willie Wagtail:2.1k
- User:Fir0002: 691 (background about 80)
- Previous POTDs:
- Total clicks from POTD box: about 67 thousand