wikiHow:Statistics
wikiHow has experienced some impressive growth since we launched on January 15, 2005.
[edit] Milestones
- Site launched - January 15, 2005
- 1,000 articles - June 15, 2005
- 2,000 articles - September 8, 2005
- 4,000 articles - December 19, 2005
- 5,000 articles - February 2, 2006 - How to Do a Frontside 360 on a Snowboard
- 10,000 articles - August 7, 2006 - How to Taste Dark Chocolate
- 15,000 articles - December 22, 2006 - How to Make a Power Outage Bearable
- 20,000 articles - June 1, 2007
- 25,000 articles - September 21, 2007
- First article to reach 1 million page views - July 26, 2007 - How to French Kiss
- 30,000 articles - January 28, 2008
- 35,000 articles - April 8, 2008
- 40,000 articles - July 2, 2008
- 45,000 articles - October 5, 2008
[edit] November 2008 Update
In November 2008, wikiHow had 14.1 million unique readers. These 14.1 million different people visited us a total of 17.4 million times in the month. While it isn't a directly applicable comparison, it is interesting to note that the daily circulation of the New York Times is 1.2 million, the LA Times is 1 million, the Washington Post is 760,000 and the Boston Herald is 236,000.
[edit] Other Ways to Track our Progress
- Read wikiHow Press Mentions
- Read our most Popular Pages
- Read our Best of Fan Mail
- Read what bloggers are saying about wikiHow:
- Charts on number of articles, contributors, etc
- Tables on number of articles, contributors. Includes rank of contributors by number of edits.
- Traffic graphs on Compete.com, Quantcast. Note that these numbers are lower than our internal log data since they only capture US visitors.
- Alexa the Web Information Company's ranking of the wikiHow website
[edit] 2005 Summary
Here is the summary of our readership statistics for all of 2005:
- 3.6 million unique people visited wikiHow in 2005. This incredible number is larger than that of the daily circulation of any newspaper in the US.
- wikiHow was visited a total of 5.6 million times, as many people returned frequently to read our helpful how-to instructions over and over again.
- Readers looked at a total of 14.5 million page views as many visitors read several pages on each visit.
- Our overloaded servers received 102 million hits and crashed occasionally due to the traffic load. We have since bought more servers!
- Many other websites reprinted our instructions or published them offline making our true readership numbers even larger.
- Congratulations to all wikiHow contributors who made this great resource freely available to anyone! Each of you has truly helped millions of people learn new things and solve the problems of everyday life. Thanks.
