Ivan Perišić is drawing 80x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Ivan Perišić is a Croatian professional footballer who mostly plays as a left winger for Eredivisie club PSV and the Croatia national team. He is known for his ambipedality and versatility on the field. Considered among the best of his generation, Perišić is widely regarded as one of the greatest Croatian players of all time.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 2 edits to this article on 2026-06-17, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• International

What changed that day

The article grew by 1 characters that day. The largest single addition was 1 characters to International. See everything that changed on 2026-06-17 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.