Smurf attack

Smurf attack - distributed denial-of-service attack in which many ICMP packets with the victim’s source IP are broadcast to a network using an IP broadcast address; most devices respond to this by sending a reply to the source IP, overwhelming the victim’s computer. Article “Smurf attack” in Czech Wikipedia has 22.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Czech) language version.

Since the creation of article “Smurf attack”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Czech Wikipedia and edited by 371 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Czech Wikipedia and cited 358 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Czech): #1877 in September 2014
• Global: #4290 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Czech): #86833 in April 2015
• Global: #11639 in December 2008

There are 19 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Smurf attack		31.3132
2	Portuguese (pt) Ataque Smurf		26.072
3	Persian (fa) حمله اسمورفینگ		23.6515
4	Czech (cs) Smurf attack		22.1186
5	Italian (it) Smurf		21.9138
6	Catalan (ca) Smurf attack		20.894
7	Slovenian (sl) Smurf attack		15.6006
8	Japanese (ja) Smurf攻撃		14.7956
9	Korean (ko) 스머프 공격		13.9419
10	German (de) Smurf-Angriff		10.9778

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Smurf attack" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Smurf attack		1 829 717
2	German (de) Smurf-Angriff		214 168
3	Spanish (es) Ataque pitufo		114 457
4	Italian (it) Smurf		78 342
5	Polish (pl) Smurf attack		71 033
6	French (fr) Attaque par rebond		48 794
7	Indonesian (id) Serangan Smurf		32 026
8	Japanese (ja) Smurf攻撃		31 277
9	Portuguese (pt) Ataque Smurf		23 551
10	Finnish (fi) Smurf-hyökkäys		22 686

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Smurf attack" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Smurf attack		1 159
2	Polish (pl) Smurf attack		79
3	German (de) Smurf-Angriff		72
4	Italian (it) Smurf		67
5	Japanese (ja) Smurf攻撃		67
6	French (fr) Attaque par rebond		52
7	Spanish (es) Ataque pitufo		29
8	Persian (fa) حمله اسمورفینگ		15
9	Korean (ko) 스머프 공격		13
10	Czech (cs) Smurf attack		12

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Smurf attack" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Smurf attack		147
2	German (de) Smurf-Angriff		47
3	Italian (it) Smurf		35
4	French (fr) Attaque par rebond		21
5	Polish (pl) Smurf attack		19
6	Spanish (es) Ataque pitufo		18
7	Finnish (fi) Smurf-hyökkäys		15
8	Dutch (nl) Smurf (computeraanval)		14
9	Portuguese (pt) Ataque Smurf		12
10	Czech (cs) Smurf attack		7

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Smurf attack" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) هجوم السنافر		1
2	English (en) Smurf attack		1
3	Catalan (ca) Smurf attack		0
4	Czech (cs) Smurf attack		0
5	German (de) Smurf-Angriff		0
6	Greek (el) Επίθεση Smurf		0
7	Spanish (es) Ataque pitufo		0
8	Basque (eu) Smurf eraso		0
9	Persian (fa) حمله اسمورفینگ		0
10	Finnish (fi) Smurf-hyökkäys		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Smurf attack" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) Smurf攻撃		152
2	Finnish (fi) Smurf-hyökkäys		108
3	English (en) Smurf attack		28
4	Italian (it) Smurf		10
5	Korean (ko) 스머프 공격		8
6	German (de) Smurf-Angriff		7
7	Spanish (es) Ataque pitufo		6
8	French (fr) Attaque par rebond		6
9	Arabic (ar) هجوم السنافر		5
10	Greek (el) Επίθεση Smurf		5

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic هجوم السنافر
ca	Catalan Smurf attack
cs	Czech Smurf attack
de	German Smurf-Angriff
el	Greek Επίθεση Smurf
en	English Smurf attack
es	Spanish Ataque pitufo
eu	Basque Smurf eraso
fa	Persian حمله اسمورفینگ
fi	Finnish Smurf-hyökkäys
fr	French Attaque par rebond
id	Indonesian Serangan Smurf
it	Italian Smurf
ja	Japanese Smurf攻撃
ko	Korean 스머프 공격
nl	Dutch Smurf (computeraanval)
pl	Polish Smurf attack
pt	Portuguese Ataque Smurf
sl	Slovenian Smurf attack

Best Rank

Czech: #86833 04.2015

Global: #11639 12.2008

Best Rank

Czech: #1877 09.2014

Global: #4290 01.2003

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