I disagreed with many things in this article. Weekends are often the least crowded???? I think that's when the locals are most likely to be there, never mind tourists. I always prefer mid-week.
The crowds can get kind of wild sometimes, though. One year at Fear Fest, two teenage boys were trying to knock each other down, and tripped ME instead. I fell face down, hard, onto concrete. My knees hurt for a month.