Check out some new Weapons, weapon of choice

Traffic report

Check out some new Weapons, weapon of choice

By Igordebraga, Shuipzv3, CAWylie, Milowent, Optim594

This traffic report is adapted from the Top 25 Report, prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Shuipzv3, CAWylie, (August 3 to 30), Milowent (August 17 to 23) and Optim594 (August 24 to 30).

You can blow with this, or you can blow with that (August 3 to 9)

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Weapons (2025 film)	2,054,712	Jordan Peele tried to bring to his production company the work of another comedian turned horror director, Zach Cregger, but lost to New Line Cinema the newest one from the Barbarian auteur. One night all but one of the children in a class vanish, and it's up to their teacher, her ex who is a cop, and one of their parents, to discover where they wound up, facing some scares along the way. Intriguing trailers built up hype, and the end result had both critics and audiences embracing how Weapons alternates between a creepy atmosphere and shocking moments, to the point it took the top of this list and will also do so at the box office, in spite of competition that includes #5 (where the teacher, Julia Garner, also appears), #8, and the belated sequel Freakier Friday.
2	SummerSlam (2025)	1,398,404	The second night of this WWE event saw more division title matches than the first one, leading up to a street fight (mostly within MetLife Stadium) for the WWE Championship between Cody Rhodes and the retiring John Cena. Rhodes won the match and the belt, which Cena handed to him, then left Cena in the ring to thank the audience. Brock Lesnar (pictured) appeared, reminding everyone of their rivalry since 2003, and seemingly sent a message to Cena that his retirement won't be an easy one.
3	Loni Anderson	1,383,463	This American actress, best known for her not-so-dumb blonde role as Jennifer Marlowe on WKRP in Cincinnati, died on August 3, just days before she would turn 80. She was nominated twice in the role for an Emmy Award, and her career lasted until 2023. She was also married for six years to Burt Reynolds.
4	Sydney Sweeney	1,276,131	The controversy over this actress's American Eagle Outfitters ad, manufactured or not, drew support for Sweeney from US president Donald Trump and vice president JD Vance.
5	The Fantastic Four: First Steps	1,117,443	Released theatrically on July 25, this Marvel Comics film has doubled its $200+ million budget at the box office. It's the first film of the superheroes team to surpass the 2005 FF film monetarily. A sequel is in development, as it also the first film in the MCU's Phase Six – whose next theatrical releases in 2026 are Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Avengers: Doomsday (featuring the Four's archenemy in the comics).
6	Deaths in 2025	1,088,503	Beware of Darkness Watch out now, take care Beware of the thoughts that linger Winding up inside your head...
7	ChatGPT	948,580	An update to the popular chatbot happened during the week with the release of GPT-5.
8	Superman (2025 film)	910,101	The launch of the DC Universe is the most sucessful superhero movie of the year, bound to make box office close to $600 million. Yet its digital download release is set for August 15, after little over a month in theaters!
9	Wednesday (TV series)	832,911	snap, snap 3 years after taking Netflix by storm, the latest take on The Addams Family had half of its second season released, where Wednesday Addams sees more murders and mysteries threatening her school for outcasts.
10	War of the Worlds (2025 film)	776,139	The War of the Worlds has been repeatedly adapted, with Hollywood's most famous versions from 1953 and 2005 updating the book's Victorian setting to a contemporary one. During the pandemic, there was an attempt to do it again in screenlife form, allowing its cast of Ice Cube, Clark Gregg and others to just film from their homes, and the fact that after filming it took 5 years for the movie to come out is not a good sign. Hence as this War of the Worlds got added to Amazon Prime Video's catalogue, critics lambasted the movie (with product placement for Amazon being a particularly mocked element!) and whatever audiences decided to check it out didn't approve of it either.

Or you can blow with us! (August 10 to 16)

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Weapons (2025 film)	2,046,636	This year, Julia Garner already saw her husband fall into lycanthropy in Wolf Man, and she's being scared again playing a formerly alcoholic teacher who one day has all but one child in her class vanish into the night, forcing her to investigate. Weapons was considered one of the best horror movies of the year and opened with $43 million domestically – already covering its budget – the sixth straight Warner Bros. movie opening over $40 million (after A Minecraft Movie, Sinners, Final Destination Bloodlines, F1 and #8), a streak they might extend next month with The Conjuring: Last Rites. A prequel to Weapons, possibly focused on the movie's villain, is in the works.
2	Coolie (2025 film)	1,983,725	On the heels of Saiyaara at the Indian box office, this Tamil action thriller, written by Lokesh Kanagaraj, has received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics and audiences, respectively; mainly equally divided between its two halves: praise for the first half, and criticism for the second.
3	War 2 (film)	1,436,072	War was one of Bollywood's biggest hits in 2019, 2023's Pathaan would estabilish it as part of the YRF Spy Universe, so now a proper sequel has hit Indian theaters, again with Hrithik Roshan wreaking havoc.
4	Deaths in 2025	1,048,572	Release your mind Fast forward to the secrets of your code Your life's on overload Delete or save...
5	ChatGPT	1,021,576
6	Alien: Earth	947,563	The long-standing horror sci-fi franchise gets its first television foray, where two years before the original Alien a spaceship carrying that horrifying thing also known as the Xenomorph crashes on an island.
7	Wednesday (TV series)	794,982	The first half of the second season, following the morbidly macabre at her school, released on August 6, guaranteeing its return (and possible permanence) on this list through its second-half release in three weeks.
8	Superman (2025 film)	782,958	The two biggest superhero movies of the year, even if with box office earnings not as massive as the genre's heyday. DC launched its new shared cinematic universe with its landmark character, and in spite of getting close to $600 million worldwide Superman is already on video-on-demand, apparently because director James Gunn wanted it available as lead-up to the next project that will hit HBO Max this week. Marvel did the first universally well-received adaptation of its "first family" (also featuring #1's star Julia Garner as Shalla-Bal the Silver Surfer), that will end with earnings around $500 million, and its cast is set to return in Avengers: Doomsday, featuring the F4's archenemy in the comics.
9	The Fantastic Four: First Steps	565,179
10	Danielle Spencer (American actress)	551,398	This actress was best known for her role as the sassy sister on What's Happening!! in the late-1970s and its sequel. She then went on to be a veterinarian. In 2014, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and died from stomach cancer at age 60 on August 11.

Don't be shocked by the tone of my voice (August 17 to 23)

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Coolie (2025 film)	2,165,583	Rising from #2 last week, this Tamil action thriller, written and directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj, received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics and audiences, respectively; mainly equally divided with its two halves: praise for the first half, and criticism for the second. It's also the highest-grossing Kollywood film of year and fourth of all-time, as well as ranking third among 2025's Indian films, right above Mahavatar Narsimha and...
2	War 2 (film)	1,483,831	Say it again, y'all... War, huh, good god! From Kollywood to Bollywood, in the sequel to a 2019 blockbuster that has yet to cover its hefty ₹300–400 crore budget.
3	Terence Stamp	1,210,396	And now, Hollywood. This British actor broke out in the 60s, even getting an Academy Award nomination for Billy Budd, became known worldwide playing General Zod in Superman and Superman II, and had quite a varied career, with his most unusual role probably being a transsexual drag queen in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert! Having not worked since playing a hostile policeman in 2021's Last Night in Soho, Stamp died at the age of 87.
4	Frank Caprio	1,103,025	From 1985 to 2023, Caprio served as the chief judge of the municipal court of Providence, Rhode Island. Some of his judicial work was filmed and televised on the show Caught in Providence. Clips from the show went viral in 2017, with Caprio receiving attention for his empathy and light humor in court. He died on August 20, aged 88.
5	Deaths in 2025	1,053,548	But we're never gonna survive unless We get a little crazy...
6	ChatGPT	969,461	GPT-5 came out earlier this month, but it still cannot write this report.
7	Weapons (2025 film)	952,404	After two weeks at #1 on this report, this thriller film starring Julia Garner sinks to #7.
8	Superman (2025 film)	813,631	This superhero film however, holds steady for another week at #8.
9	Amanda Knox	716,579	Knox is an American woman who in 2007 became implicated in the murder of Meredith Kercher, her British roommate, while both of them were on a student exchange program in Perugia, Italy. After a few days of questioning by police without lawyers present, Knox and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were arrested and charged with Kercher's murder. A third person, Rudy Guede, was separately arrested in the same year and convicted of Kercher's sexual assault and murder in 2008, based on fingerprints identified at the crime scene. Knox and Sollecito's trial began in 2009, but even before its beginning, local Italian media portrayed Knox in a negative light, which was repeated by worldwide media. They were convicted and sentenced to 26 years and 25 years in prison respectively, causing international controversy. An appeal in 2011 found Knox and Sollecito not guilty, and both were released, with Knox returning to the US. A retrial was held in 2014, which found Knox and Sollecito guilty, but in 2015, Italy's highest court, the Supreme Court of Cassation, definitively exonerated them of murder. After her return to the US, Knox graduated, and worked as a journalist and writer, as well as getting involved with activism for the wrongfully accused. The latest dramatization of Knox's true story, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, premiered on Hulu on August 20.
10	Alien: Earth	663,095	FX (plus Hulu and Disney+ on streaming) is airing the first show based on the long-standing horror sci-fi franchise, featuring a spaceship carrying that horrifying extraterrestrial also known as the Xenomorph crashing on Earth, robots with uploaded human consciousnesses, and fans questioning how the events of this can still maintain continuity when it's set shortly before the first Alien.

Halfway between the gutter and the stars, yeah (August 24 to 30)

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Deaths in 2025	1,029,739	...so, we finally reached the slowest week ever in 12 years and get this on the top position? And in a week without major departures, to boot (although out of the Anglosphere, this here writer saw the death of his favorite author).
2	Coolie (2025 film)	941,741	After 2.0 and Jailer, Coolie is Rajinikanth's third film to enter the 500 crore club.
3	ChatGPT	935,750	Recently, an incident was revealed where one ChatGPT co-creator tried to quit Meta and return to OpenAI but got an offer for a higher position and did not leave.
4	Taylor Swift	875,756	"Baby just say yes!" On Tuesday, the biggest singer in the world right now and the NFL star she's been dating for two years announced their engagement with a joint post on Instagram. That post has since shot up to tenth in the list of most-liked Instagram posts and had more than a million reposts. Even Trump, who declared that he "hates" her and that she is "no longer hot", congratulated the happy couple. On Friday, they made their first public appearance since the announcement, attending a college football match between Kelce's college team, the Cincinnati Bearcats, and the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
5	Travis Kelce	742,569
6	KPop Demon Hunters	677,641	Records keep on piling for the animation following a girl group fighting the supernatural: it's Netflix's most watched original film ever, the platform's first box office #1 through a sing-along theatrical release, and the soundtrack is the first since Saturday Night Fever with three songs in the Hot 100 top 5, including chart-topper "Golden". Netflix is already in talks with Sony Pictures Animation to make a sequel.
7	Amanda Knox	630,330	The "twisted tale" documenting her wrongful murder conviction last decade has begun on Hulu, and she released a second memoir this year about her ordeal. She is also making her rounds on TV talk shows to talk about both.
8	War 2 (film)	612,969	Released theatrically on August 14, this Indian action thriller has yet to break-even with its budget. It's also the lowest-grossing entry in the YRF Spy Universe that began in 2012.
9	2025–26 UEFA Champions League	575,872	The league phase draw for the 34th season took place on August 26. 36 teams from 16 national associations were selected, with teams from England holding six spots. Competition will begin on September 16 and run through May 30.
10	Weapons (2025 film)	564,459	After the one weekend run of #6 in theaters, the top spot returned to the acclaimed horror movie about missing children and supernatural mind control, already worth more than $230 million. And showing how weak the overall box office is, second place was another thriller... from 50 years ago, a re-release of the iconic Jaws.

Exclusions

These lists exclude the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the Top 25 Report talk page if you wish.

Most edited articles

For the July 25 – August 25 period, per this database report.

Title	Revisions	Notes
Deaths in 2025	2520	Among the deceased not above were Jim Lovell, Ryne Sandberg, James Dobson, and Kelley Mack.
Brazil at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games	1726	The best young athletes of the Americas – ages 17 to 22 – competed in Paraguay, and South America's biggest country led the medal count with 175, 70 of them golden. Should be a good sign for the regular 2027 Pan American Games in Lima, and maybe future Olympics!
2025 Pacific typhoon season	1564	After tropical depressions starting as early as February, the first storm happened in May, and five typhoons have followed since.
Japanese conjugation	1385	Mostly one user Turning Japanese with this long (over 600 kB!) page on the nipponic language.
Legalism (Chinese philosophy)	1290	And one editor has been Turning Chinese over this since 2010, with most of their 49,000+ edits dedicated to this page!
Weapons (2025 film)	1175	One of The Whitest Kids U' Know, Zach Cregger, showed he had horror credentials in Barbarian and extended them with this movie, that Cregger said to have drawn inspiration from the death of his comedic partner Trevor Moore, with whom he shared a shameful directorial debut in Miss March.
The Life of a Showgirl	911	Where does Taylor Swift get her energy? Having concluded her record-breaking Eras Tour in December last year, Swift announced on August 13 that her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, will be released on October 3. Produced with the Swedish hitmakers Max Martin and Shellback, the album was conceived and recorded during the tour's European leg. Swift said the album is inspired by the events behind the scenes on the tour, which she described as "exuberant and electric and vibrant". At twelve songs and with "infectious" melodies promised, The Life of a Showgirl could not be more different to its predecessor The Tortured Poets Department, the 31-track double album dominated by introspective lyrics and minimalist production.
Bash (Unix shell)	812	Another one user crusade, regarding the "Bourne Again SHell" commonly used to login into various Linux distributions.
2025 Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake	806	The most powerful earthquake recorded worldwide since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake hit the Russian Far East, but with minimal damage considering the distant and barely populated area, and even the subsequent tsunamis were weaker than expected.
2025 Cincinnati Open – Women's singles	787	Iga Świątek followed her Grand Slam title at Wimbledon winning the last WTA 1000 prior to the U.S. Open – where she got to the final of the mixed doubles tournament partnering Casper Ruud, so another deep Grand Slam run is to be expected?
Timeline of the Gaza war (16 May 2025 – present)	779	This article is now Timeline of the Gaza war (16 May 2025 – 19 August 2025), showing how the suffering in the Middle East just doesn't end nearly 2 years later.
War 2 (film)	771	A Bollywood sequel to a succintly titled 2019 film, that has underperformed at the box office but still ranks among India's highest-grossing of the year.
James Cook	767	The Good Article nomination on the page about this seafarer passed, so it's now a Featured Article candidate.
2025 Cincinnati Open – Men's singles	728	On the ATP side of the tournament above, like the French Open and Wimbledon it all went down to Carlos Alcaraz vs. Jannik Sinner, and the former won due to his Italian rival retiring after less than half an hour feeling unwell.
Coolie (2025 film)	717	War 2 beat this Kollywood production on its opening weekend.