2026-07-20 · This surge ran for 17 days and has since subsided.
Part of John Healey · 2 surges recorded
John Healey is drawing 686x more Wikipedia traffic than normal
John Healey drew 257,579 views on 2026-07-20, 686x more than the usual 376 a day over the previous 60 days.
John Healey
British politician (born 1960)
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| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-20 | 257,579 |
| 2026-07-19 | 332 |
| 2026-07-18 | 401 |
| 2026-07-17 | 477 |
| 2026-07-16 | 353 |
| 2026-07-15 | 333 |
| 2026-07-14 | 278 |
| 2026-07-13 | 268 |
| 2026-07-12 | 256 |
| 2026-07-11 | 243 |
| 2026-07-10 | 276 |
| 2026-07-09 | 330 |
| 2026-07-08 | 389 |
| 2026-07-07 | 515 |
| 2026-07-06 | 586 |
| 2026-07-05 | 290 |
| 2026-07-04 | 305 |
| 2026-07-03 | 357 |
| 2026-07-02 | 450 |
| 2026-07-01 | 748 |
| 2026-06-30 | 1,300 |
| 2026-06-29 | 610 |
| 2026-06-28 | 610 |
| 2026-06-27 | 630 |
| 2026-06-26 | 621 |
| 2026-06-25 | 875 |
| 2026-06-24 | 1,532 |
| 2026-06-23 | 1,831 |
| 2026-06-22 | 2,750 |
| 2026-06-21 | 1,379 |
| 2026-06-20 | 851 |
| 2026-06-19 | 1,194 |
| 2026-06-18 | 1,055 |
| 2026-06-17 | 1,789 |
| 2026-06-16 | 3,308 |
| 2026-06-15 | 1,942 |
| 2026-06-14 | 3,487 |
| 2026-06-13 | 4,781 |
| 2026-06-12 | 20,821 |
| 2026-06-11 | 65,895 |
| 2026-06-10 | 360 |
| 2026-06-09 | 268 |
| 2026-06-08 | 219 |
| 2026-06-07 | 288 |
| 2026-06-06 | 235 |
What this article is
John Healey is a British politician who has served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Andy Burnham since 20 July 2026. He previously served as Secretary of State for Defence under Keir Starmer from 2024 to 2026. A member of the Labour Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rawmarsh and Conisbrough, formerly Wentworth and Wentworth and Dearne, since 1997. He previously held various junior ministerial positions under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 2001 to 2010.
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Where editors were working
Wikipedia editors made 60 edits to this article on 2026-07-20, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.
- Defence secretary (2024–2026)
- Early life and career
- Junior minister
- Personal life
What changed that day
The article grew by 3,093 characters that day. The largest single addition was 1,290 characters to Defence secretary (2024–2026). See everything that changed on 2026-07-20 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.
Rose at the same time
5 other articles that this one is connected to surged alongside it. What they have in common is left to you — the pageview record shows that attention moved together, not why.
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.