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Each year there are hundreds of great major sporting events held around the world. It is very clear that soccer is the most popular sport, and this analysis of the traffic to major sporting events pages on the Wikipedia website confirms this, with the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championships being the two most popular events. The most viewed sports page on Wikipedia was also soccer.

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Rank of Wikipedia Traffic

The table below uses page traffic data for Wikipedia major sporting events pages for the year it was held (data period 2016-2019).

source: data extracted using the Toolforge website.

 

Limitations

This method only notes the most popular pages - the number of page visitors can depend on the quality of the page information, search engine rankings and strength of competing websites.

This data also does not take into consideration Internet traffic to other related pages for that event, such as for the Olympic Games there official Olympic Games website would also get a lot of traffic, as well as the Wikipedia pages for each sport that is held at that Games. There are also general pages for each event, such as a Super Bowl page, as well as pages for each annual event.

There is also location bias. Only English pages were analyzed, so the data is biased to those with Internet access in the English speaking world.

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