It's been on my todo-list for a long time to make stats.grok.se into something more useful and present more info there - for example graphs over (longer) times. Also the design is a bit dated. :)

I do have about three years worth of Wikipedia article traffics stored, so I could do long term tracking and some interesting data mining, but I keep getting side tracked into other hobby projects.

It only presents stats for entire days, so it'll show today's hits tomorrow (it updates an hour or so after midnight GMT).

Yes, there will be many more hits for the next days stats.

Random example: http://stats.grok.se/en/201108/Pierre_de_Fermat

That doodle was from Aug 17 2011 - 2.3M hits

Doodle doesn't point directly to the wikipedia article. It only does search for the name. Wikipedia being the first result gets a lot of traffic but there obviously isn't 100% CTR.

most people go to google because they're looking for something. that something isn't typically the subject of the google doodle.