UESP Site Statistics — April 2018

A couple of people at PAX East last weekend were asking about various UESP statistics so I thought it would be useful to make a post with some. 
 
Wiki Visitor Stats

Monthly Page Views: 15 million (500,000 / day)
Monthly Unique Visitors: 1.5 million
Average Session Duration: 5 minutes
New Visitors: 30%
Mobile Visitors: 60% (includes 6% from tablets)

 
Other Visitor Stats

Maps Monthly Page Views: 60,000 (Skyrim/Oblivion/Morrowind)
ESO Map Monthly Page Views: 150,000
Forums Monthly Page Views: 40,000
Blog Monthly Page Views: 150,000

 
Page Views by Game
The following table shows the breakdown of the 20,000 most visited pages over the period 1 August 2017 to 8 April 2018 comprising 110 million page views by namespace . 

 
Count %
Page View %

Skyrim
25.68%
48.48%

ESO
20.59%
13.11%

Oblivion
13.18%
12.57%

Morrowind
14.02%
10.63%

Lore
8.62%
7.01%

File/Image
9.08%
2.50%

Main Page
0.10%
1.47%

Special
1.41%
0.82%

Daggerfall
1.43%
0.71%

Legends
1.10%
0.45%

Talk
1.23%
0.25%

Arena
0.33%
0.24%

UESPWiki
0.21%
0.22%

Category
0.21%
0.22%

Redguard
0.14%
0.06%

Battlespire
0.14%
0.05%

User
0.16%
0.03%

Other
2.40%
1.17%

We can see that Skyrim is still the most popular game by a notable margin of page views followed by Elder Scrolls Online.
 
ESOLOG Stats
Various stats related to the esolog.uesp.net data collection site:

Data Table Views: 8.4 million
CP Browser Views: 710,000
Achievement Browser Views: 710,000
Advanced Item Searches: 17,000
Build Views: 3.0 million
Build Editor Views: 500,000
Character Data Browser Views: 60,000
Data Dump Views: 600,000
JSON Exports: 3.1 million
Item Link Popup Views: 21.9 million
Item Link Item Views: 1.9 million
Alchemy Calculator Views: 170,000
Sales Data Views: 45,000
Skill Browser Views: 600,000

 
Internal Stats

Dynamic File Load: 40 requests/second
Static File Load: 90 requests/second
Squid Cache Load: 80 requests/second, 53% hit rate
Database Queries: 300 queries/second
Database Size: 200 GB
Servers: 8 + 1 offsite backup
Files: Around 140 GB in 3.9 million files
Source Code: 1.8 million lines in 5,000 files, 220 MB

 
Stat Sources
Our statistics used above come from a number of different sources:

Google Analytics
Zabbix monitoring of all UESP servers (see monitor.uesp.net).
Custom page stats collected by UESP code.
Log files.

 
If you’d like to see specific stats not listed here just leave a comment and let us know!

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