{ "name": "WalkSage Crowd Index", "description": "Relative visitor-interest index for towns on the Camino de Santiago, computed from Wikipedia pageviews. A proxy for relative interest, not a measured footfall count.", "source": "https://walksage.com/crowd-index", "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — free to reuse with attribution to WalkSage.", "important": "crowd_index is normalised per route (each route's busiest town = 1.0) and is NOT comparable between routes. Use monthly_avg_pageviews for cross-route comparison: it uses an identical 12-month window and identical API settings on every route.", "routes": [ { "route": "Camino de Santiago Francés", "campaign_id": "camino-frances", "scraped_at": "2026-08-02T14:32:23+00:00", "pageview_window": "20250801-20260731", "method": "crowd_index.normalized = town monthly_avg pageviews / max monthly_avg across all 33-route towns (same 12-full-month window, agent=user, all-access; es.wikipedia preferred, else en, else fr — 'project' records which). Deterministic and reproducible from the monthly_views arrays stored per town. Proxy for relative visitor interest, not a measured footfall count.", "comparability_note": null, "town_count": 34, "measured_count": 34, "unmeasured_count": 0, "towns": [ { "town": "Santiago de Compostela", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q14314", "population": 100965, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 15786.5, "crowd_index": 1, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Pamplona", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q10282", "population": 209094, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 14643.1, "crowd_index": 0.9276, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Burgos", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q9580", "population": 177402, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 14360.5, "crowd_index": 0.9097, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, 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"country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q270294", "population": 1479, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 2776, "crowd_index": 0.1758, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Roncesvalles", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q917891", "population": 25, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 2595.2, "crowd_index": 0.1644, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Villafranca del Bierzo", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q848300", "population": 2591, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 2394.3, "crowd_index": 0.1517, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Puente la Reina", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q372556", "population": 2972, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 2246.4, "crowd_index": 0.1423, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Belorado", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q536682", "population": 1823, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 1991.6, "crowd_index": 0.1262, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Castrojeriz", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q255845", "population": 794, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 1959.2, "crowd_index": 0.1241, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Arzúa", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q651676", "population": 5916, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 1401.7, "crowd_index": 0.0888, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Palas de Rei", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q842216", "population": 3227, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 1342.2, "crowd_index": 0.085, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Portomarín", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q849319", "population": 1277, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 1158.8, "crowd_index": 0.0734, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Mansilla de las Mulas", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q748894", "population": 1706, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 1115.7, "crowd_index": 0.0707, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "O Cebreiro", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q503695", "population": 125, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 937.2, "crowd_index": 0.0594, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Los Arcos", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q742713", "population": 1177, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 774.3, "crowd_index": 0.049, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Zubiri", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q227578", "population": 491, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 549.3, "crowd_index": 0.0348, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Triacastela", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q636874", "population": 589, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 452.6, "crowd_index": 0.0287, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "El Burgo Ranero", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q26585", "population": 697, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 415.2, "crowd_index": 0.0263, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Rabanal del Camino", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q657882", "population": 74, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 283.9, "crowd_index": 0.018, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Terradillos de los Templarios", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q612880", "population": 56, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 263.4, "crowd_index": 0.0167, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Agés", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q399630", "population": 56, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 198.2, "crowd_index": 0.0126, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "San Martín del Camino", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q2219810", "population": 354, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 169.1, "crowd_index": 0.0107, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Hontanas", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q959026", "population": 69, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 162.2, "crowd_index": 0.0103, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "O Pedrouzo", "country": null, "wikidata_qid": "Q16509803", "population": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 49.7, "crowd_index": 0.0031, "pageview_project": "fr.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": null, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": null, "unmeasured_reasons": [] } ] }, { "route": "Camino Portugués", "campaign_id": "camino-portugues", "scraped_at": "2026-08-04T04:21:03+00:00", "pageview_window": "20250801-20260731", "method": "crowd_index.normalized = town monthly_avg pageviews / max monthly_avg across all 20 Camino Portugués towns (12-full-month window 20250801-20260731 — the same window as the Camino Francés run — agent=user, all-access). Project selection is country-local first: pt.wikipedia for Portuguese towns, es.wikipedia for Spanish towns, else en.wikipedia, else gl.wikipedia; 'project' records which was used. Deterministic and reproducible from the monthly_views arrays stored per town. Proxy for relative visitor interest, not a measured footfall count.", "comparability_note": "NORMALISATION IS CAMPAIGN-LOCAL: crowd_index is scaled to the busiest town of THIS route (Santiago de Compostela ~1.0), so a Camino Portugués index is NOT comparable to a Camino Francés index. To compare the two campaigns, use raw_monthly_avg_pageviews, which is stored for every town and uses an identical 12-month window (20250801-20260731) and identical API settings on both routes. SECOND CAVEAT: this route spans two countries, so primary counts come from different Wikipedia projects (pt vs es), whose reader populations differ in size; counts are not perfectly comparable across projects. Each town therefore also stores wikipedia_pageviews.all_projects (per-project monthly averages) and crowd_index.cross_check_enwiki, a second index computed on en.wikipedia alone — one common project for every town, which removes the cross-project bias. Where the two indices disagree, say so.", "town_count": 20, "measured_count": 19, "unmeasured_count": 1, "towns": [ { "town": "Santiago de Compostela", "country": "Spain", "wikidata_qid": "Q14314", "population": 100965, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 15786.5, "crowd_index": 1, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": 0.7512, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": 26557.8, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Vigo", "country": "Spain", "wikidata_qid": "Q8745", "population": 294489, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 12008.3, "crowd_index": 0.7607, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": 0.413, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": 14600.8, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Pontevedra", "country": "Spain", "wikidata_qid": "Q12411", "population": 83316, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 10283.6, "crowd_index": 0.6514, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": 0.1307, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": 4619.4, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Porto", "country": "Portugal", "wikidata_qid": "Q36433", "population": 231800, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 8983.8, "crowd_index": 0.5691, "pageview_project": "pt.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": 1, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": 35354.2, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Baiona", "country": "Spain", "wikidata_qid": "Q748867", "population": 12361, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 4208.2, "crowd_index": 0.2666, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": 0.0282, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": 996.1, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Tui", "country": "Spain", "wikidata_qid": "Q824122", "population": 17468, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 4129.1, "crowd_index": 0.2616, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": 0.0309, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": 1092.5, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Viana do Castelo", "country": "Portugal", "wikidata_qid": "Q208158", "population": 88725, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 4017.6, "crowd_index": 0.2545, "pageview_project": "pt.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": 0.0978, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": 3459.4, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Barcelos", "country": "Portugal", "wikidata_qid": "Q213242", "population": 116752, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 2684, "crowd_index": 0.17, "pageview_project": "pt.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": 0.0707, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": 2498.8, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Ponte de Lima", "country": "Portugal", "wikidata_qid": "Q490180", "population": 43498, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 2648.6, "crowd_index": 0.1678, "pageview_project": "pt.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": 0.0472, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": 1669.9, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Padrón", "country": "Spain", "wikidata_qid": "Q500494", "population": 8334, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 2307.7, "crowd_index": 0.1462, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": 0.0252, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": 890.1, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Póvoa de Varzim", "country": "Portugal", "wikidata_qid": "Q200459", "population": 63408, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 2292.6, "crowd_index": 0.1452, "pageview_project": "pt.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": 0.06, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": 2122.6, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Vila do Conde", "country": "Portugal", "wikidata_qid": "Q917313", "population": 79533, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 2217.2, "crowd_index": 0.1404, "pageview_project": "pt.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": 0.0713, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": 2521.2, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Redondela", "country": "Spain", "wikidata_qid": "Q833032", "population": 28874, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 2118.3, "crowd_index": 0.1342, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": 0.0174, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": 616.1, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "O Porriño", "country": "Spain", "wikidata_qid": "Q1616392", "population": 20965, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 2088.9, "crowd_index": 0.1323, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": 0.0184, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": 649.9, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Caldas de Reis", "country": "Spain", "wikidata_qid": "Q1448886", "population": 9615, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 2011.8, "crowd_index": 0.1274, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": 0.0134, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": 473.8, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "A Guarda", "country": "Spain", "wikidata_qid": "Q300433", "population": 9970, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 1998.8, "crowd_index": 0.1266, "pageview_project": "es.wikipedia", "crowd_index_enwiki_cross_check": 0.0086, "monthly_avg_pageviews_enwiki": 305.1, "unmeasured_reasons": [] }, { "town": "Esposende", "country": "Portugal", "wikidata_qid": "Q552011", "population": 34254, "monthly_avg_pageviews": 1356.6, "crowd_index": 0.0859, 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no Wikidata settlement match for 'Vilarinho' within the route corridor bbox under parent ['Vila do Conde']", "wikidata: no Wikidata item exists for this settlement — coordinates fall back to the named OSM place element on the route relation; QID, population and pageviews stay null.", "crowd_index: null (no pageview data for this town)" ] } ] } ] }