Hypertext Markup Language

Quality:

HTML - family of markup languages for displaying content in a web browser. This programming language is the 3^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 4^th most popular programming language in German Wikipedia. Article “Hypertext Markup Language” in German Wikipedia has 47.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 18 references and 26 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

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The 2882^nd most popular in German Wikipedia.

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The 1621^st most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 4^th most popular in programming languages in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1242^nd most popular in all topics.

The 643^rd most popular in AI.

The 3^rd most popular in programming languages.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9422^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4285^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Hypertext Markup Language”, its content was written by 536 registered users of German Wikipedia (1621^st place) and edited by 7487 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (643^rd place).

HTML is on the 4^th place in local ranking of programming languages in German Wikipedia and on the 3^rd place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 1512 times in German Wikipedia (7194^th place) and cited 28107 times in all languages (6006^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #11 in October 2003
• Global: #3 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #153 in April 2015
• Global: #385 in June 2013

There are 54 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	Chinese (zh) HTML		84.5283
2	Greek (el) HTML		69.1471
3	English (en) HTML		59.8573
4	Persian (fa) اچ‌تی‌ام‌ال		53.8903
5	Polish (pl) HTML		51.8667
6	French (fr) Hypertext Markup Language		51.7487
7	Korean (ko) HTML		51.2157
8	Basque (eu) HTML		49.5765
9	Vietnamese (vi) HTML		48.2306
10	German (de) Hypertext Markup Language		47.4496

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) HTML		32 619 862
2	Spanish (es) HTML		14 002 697
3	Russian (ru) HTML		6 766 431
4	German (de) Hypertext Markup Language		4 643 954
5	Portuguese (pt) HTML		3 371 861
6	French (fr) Hypertext Markup Language		3 311 898
7	Japanese (ja) HyperText Markup Language		2 776 412
8	Polish (pl) HTML		2 349 729
9	Italian (it) HTML		2 119 967
10	Chinese (zh) HTML		1 608 435

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) HTML		63 068
2	Russian (ru) HTML		5 763
3	Spanish (es) HTML		5 532
4	French (fr) Hypertext Markup Language		3 661
5	German (de) Hypertext Markup Language		3 597
6	Chinese (zh) HTML		2 310
7	Portuguese (pt) HTML		2 254
8	Japanese (ja) HyperText Markup Language		1 946
9	Simple English (simple) HTML		1 872
10	Ukrainian (uk) HTML		1 627

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) HTML		1 773
2	German (de) Hypertext Markup Language		536
3	Spanish (es) HTML		512
4	French (fr) Hypertext Markup Language		405
5	Russian (ru) HTML		308
6	Italian (it) HTML		281
7	Polish (pl) HTML		237
8	Portuguese (pt) HTML		237
9	Dutch (nl) HyperText Markup Language		193
10	Japanese (ja) HyperText Markup Language		174

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) لغة تأشير النص الترابطي		6
2	Spanish (es) HTML		4
3	English (en) HTML		3
4	Chinese (zh) HTML		3
5	French (fr) Hypertext Markup Language		2
6	Dutch (nl) HyperText Markup Language		2
7	Czech (cs) Hypertext Markup Language		1
8	Greek (el) HTML		1
9	Basque (eu) HTML		1
10	Hebrew (he) HTML		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information