2026-05-17 · This surge ran for 12 days and has since subsided.
Part of Conor McGregor · 2 surges recorded
Conor McGregor is drawing 16x more Wikipedia traffic than normal
Conor McGregor drew 66,844 views on 2026-05-17, 16x more than the usual 4,175 a day over the previous 60 days.
Conor McGregor
Irish mixed martial artist (born 1988)
View as table
| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-17 | 66,844 |
| 2026-05-16 | 6,802 |
| 2026-05-15 | 5,054 |
| 2026-05-14 | 5,118 |
| 2026-05-13 | 5,405 |
| 2026-05-12 | 5,761 |
| 2026-05-11 | 6,530 |
| 2026-05-10 | 9,426 |
| 2026-05-09 | 5,512 |
| 2026-05-08 | 5,133 |
| 2026-05-07 | 4,007 |
| 2026-05-06 | 4,049 |
| 2026-05-05 | 3,787 |
| 2026-05-04 | 3,707 |
| 2026-05-03 | 3,684 |
| 2026-05-02 | 3,742 |
| 2026-05-01 | 3,637 |
| 2026-04-30 | 3,579 |
| 2026-04-29 | 4,203 |
| 2026-04-28 | 3,944 |
| 2026-04-27 | 3,606 |
| 2026-04-26 | 3,436 |
| 2026-04-25 | 3,416 |
| 2026-04-24 | 3,402 |
| 2026-04-23 | 3,582 |
| 2026-04-22 | 3,530 |
| 2026-04-21 | 3,763 |
| 2026-04-20 | 4,068 |
| 2026-04-19 | 4,789 |
| 2026-04-18 | 3,959 |
| 2026-04-17 | 4,013 |
| 2026-04-16 | 4,162 |
| 2026-04-15 | 4,188 |
| 2026-04-14 | 4,071 |
| 2026-04-13 | 4,780 |
| 2026-04-12 | 6,000 |
| 2026-04-11 | 4,439 |
| 2026-04-10 | 3,617 |
| 2026-04-09 | 3,446 |
| 2026-04-08 | 3,322 |
| 2026-04-07 | 3,664 |
| 2026-04-06 | 4,132 |
| 2026-04-05 | 4,476 |
| 2026-04-04 | 4,435 |
| 2026-04-03 | 4,091 |
What this article is
Conor Anthony McGregor is an Irish professional mixed martial artist. He is a former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Featherweight and Lightweight Champion, becoming the first fighter to hold UFC championships in two weight classes simultaneously. He is also a former simultaneous Cage Warriors Fighting Championship (CWFC) Featherweight and Lightweight Champion.
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Where editors were working
Wikipedia editors made 4 edits to this article on 2026-05-17, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.
- 2026
- 2025
- Mixed martial arts
What changed that day
The article grew by 414 characters that day. The largest single addition was 393 characters to 2025. See everything that changed on 2026-05-17 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.
How this was measured
Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.