Traffic to W-League Related Wikipedia Articles by Date

This entry was posted by Laura on Friday, 2 July, 2010 at

Sometimes, I make charts and I think they are just that pretty that I want to share. (mmm. Tasty data!) This is one of those charts and it offers an interesting comparison between two clubs, the league they are in and the national team for that sport. The clubs are the Canberra United, the Melbourne Victory, the W-League and the Matildas. The team pages generally get 1/2 to 1/5 the traffic of the league page. The league and national team both got about the same traffic. Then the Australian women win the AFC and the traffic to their page shoots right up. After that, the traffic to the national team page was about double that of the league that a lot of those players are drawn from. Club pages and league didn’t necessarily see a bump as a result though.  The implications for this are fascinating.  It could suggest that national team interest and support does not translate down to the local level.   Soccer seems to have pushed this idea: National team success in the US should help foster interest in the MLS and WPS, and it doesn’t always seem to be the case.  (Yes, not the same country, the Women’s World Cup isn’t going on, etc.  Still, interesting…)

Traffic to W-League Related Wikipedia Articles by Date

Stats for this chart were gathered using stats.grok.se/ .

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  • Leighblackall

    what happened on the 10th of june you think? Did the Internet go down or something? Was it a public holiday? Equally, what caused the spikes on the 1st and the 20th? Sure is interesting..

  • http://www.fanhistory.com LauraH

    I think there was a data collection problem on grok. There were similar downs for another team or two that shouldn't have had them.

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