2026-05-17 · This surge ran for 14 days and has since subsided.
Xabi Alonso is drawing 31x more Wikipedia traffic than normal
Xabi Alonso drew 110,189 views on 2026-05-17, 31x more than the usual 3,558 a day over the previous 60 days.
Xabi Alonso
Spanish football manager and player (born 1981)
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| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-17 | 110,189 |
| 2026-05-16 | 61,365 |
| 2026-05-15 | 7,984 |
| 2026-05-14 | 7,104 |
| 2026-05-13 | 9,006 |
| 2026-05-12 | 15,626 |
| 2026-05-11 | 13,440 |
| 2026-05-10 | 6,704 |
| 2026-05-09 | 7,218 |
| 2026-05-08 | 7,158 |
| 2026-05-07 | 5,306 |
| 2026-05-06 | 4,025 |
| 2026-05-05 | 3,864 |
| 2026-05-04 | 3,453 |
| 2026-05-03 | 3,791 |
| 2026-05-02 | 3,125 |
| 2026-05-01 | 3,351 |
| 2026-04-30 | 3,438 |
| 2026-04-29 | 4,721 |
| 2026-04-28 | 6,776 |
| 2026-04-27 | 3,395 |
| 2026-04-26 | 2,966 |
| 2026-04-25 | 3,931 |
| 2026-04-24 | 3,568 |
| 2026-04-23 | 3,945 |
| 2026-04-22 | 4,434 |
| 2026-04-21 | 2,927 |
| 2026-04-20 | 3,046 |
| 2026-04-19 | 3,877 |
| 2026-04-18 | 3,453 |
| 2026-04-17 | 3,669 |
| 2026-04-16 | 6,919 |
| 2026-04-15 | 6,305 |
| 2026-04-14 | 3,563 |
| 2026-04-13 | 2,466 |
| 2026-04-12 | 2,835 |
| 2026-04-11 | 3,554 |
| 2026-04-10 | 2,973 |
| 2026-04-09 | 3,423 |
| 2026-04-08 | 4,623 |
| 2026-04-07 | 5,679 |
| 2026-04-06 | 3,669 |
| 2026-04-05 | 3,665 |
| 2026-04-04 | 5,138 |
| 2026-04-03 | 2,162 |
What this article is
Xabier Alonso Olano is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club Chelsea. Widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of his generation, he was known for his passing range and long-distance shooting. Alonso is also currently considered to be one of the best young managers in the world.
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Where editors were working
Wikipedia editors made 46 edits to this article on 2026-05-17, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.
- Chelsea
- Managerial statistics
- Real Madrid
What changed that day
The article grew by 887 characters that day. The largest single addition was 394 characters to Real Madrid. 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.