donk is the most-visited player page on HLTV so far this year

On LinkedIn, HLTV shared a list of the top-ten most visited player pages in 2026 thus far, revealing that Spirit superstar Danil "donk" Kryshkovets is the Counter-Strike 2 portal's most popular player at the moment with 2.3m page views in six months. The player finished finished ahead of both Vitaltiy's Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut and former NAVI great and current BC.Game player Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev.

Overall, the list does not have many surprises as it is dominated by top players from Spirit, Vitality, and Falcons, however it is worth noting that no North American, South American, nor Asian players made the list.

The list serves as a strong data point for who the most popular players are the moment, although we can reasonably expect to see players with strong performances (like donk) or poor performances (like karrigan) take precedence as fans surely want to check out stats for these players after matches.

The stats also give us interesting insight on the popularity of the game at the moment and of HLTV as millions of views on a singular page points to a healthy and engaged esports audience.

See the full list below: