2026-05-02 · This surge ran for 13 days and has since subsided.
Kentucky Derby is drawing 76x more Wikipedia traffic than normal
Kentucky Derby drew 79,996 views on 2026-05-02, 76x more than the usual 1,047 a day over the previous 60 days.
Kentucky Derby
American stakes race for Thoroughbreds, part of the Triple Crown
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| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-02 | 79,996 |
| 2026-05-01 | 11,920 |
| 2026-04-30 | 6,118 |
| 2026-04-29 | 4,970 |
| 2026-04-28 | 4,513 |
| 2026-04-27 | 4,082 |
| 2026-04-26 | 2,980 |
| 2026-04-25 | 2,558 |
| 2026-04-24 | 1,852 |
| 2026-04-23 | 1,668 |
| 2026-04-22 | 2,056 |
| 2026-04-21 | 1,895 |
| 2026-04-20 | 1,732 |
| 2026-04-19 | 1,640 |
| 2026-04-18 | 1,523 |
| 2026-04-17 | 1,353 |
| 2026-04-16 | 1,382 |
| 2026-04-15 | 1,240 |
| 2026-04-14 | 1,237 |
| 2026-04-13 | 1,301 |
| 2026-04-12 | 1,204 |
| 2026-04-11 | 1,509 |
| 2026-04-10 | 1,176 |
| 2026-04-09 | 1,054 |
| 2026-04-08 | 1,035 |
| 2026-04-07 | 1,040 |
| 2026-04-06 | 1,130 |
| 2026-04-05 | 1,203 |
| 2026-04-04 | 1,113 |
| 2026-04-03 | 903 |
| 2026-04-02 | 1,018 |
| 2026-04-01 | 913 |
| 2026-03-31 | 882 |
| 2026-03-30 | 1,007 |
| 2026-03-29 | 1,105 |
| 2026-03-28 | 1,290 |
| 2026-03-27 | 777 |
| 2026-03-26 | 749 |
| 2026-03-25 | 812 |
| 2026-03-24 | 814 |
| 2026-03-23 | 877 |
| 2026-03-22 | 801 |
| 2026-03-21 | 912 |
| 2026-03-20 | 940 |
| 2026-03-19 | 1,329 |
What this article is
The Kentucky Derby is an American Grade I stakes race run at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The race is run by three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of 1+1⁄4 miles. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds and fillies 121 pounds.
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Where editors were working
Wikipedia editors made 12 edits to this article on 2026-05-02, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.
- Riders Up!
- Winners
- Horse records
What changed that day
The article grew by 603 characters that day. The largest single addition was 392 characters to Riders Up!. See everything that changed on 2026-05-02 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
1 other article 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.