WikiHow:Statistics

December 2006 Update

In December 2006, wikiHow had 3.1 million unique readers. These 3.1 million different people visited us a total of 5 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.

Other Ways to Track our Progress

• Charts on number of articles, contributors, etc
• Tables on number of articles, contributors. Includes rank of contributors by number of edits.
• Read our most Popular Pages
• Read what bloggers are saying about wikiHow:
  • Technorati's list of "wikiHow" mentions
  • Technorati's list of links to wikiHow
• wikiHow:Milestones
• Read our Best of Fan Mail
• Read wikiHow Press Mentions

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.