Internet Explorer

Quality:

Internet Explorer - discontinued web browser by Microsoft. This software is the 16^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 20^th most popular software in German Wikipedia. Article “Internet Explorer” in German Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 144 references and 22 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 6096^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 929^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 20^th most popular in software in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4209^th most popular in all topics.

The 837^th most popular in AI.

The 16^th most popular in software.

In June 2025 the article “Internet Explorer” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Internet Explorer”, its content was written by 620 registered users of German Wikipedia (929^th place) and edited by 6800 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (837^th place).

Internet Explorer is on the 20^th place in local ranking of software in German Wikipedia and on the 16^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 488 times in German Wikipedia and cited 12879 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #67 in November 2002
• Global: #100 in June 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #1143 in September 2012
• Global: #474 in July 2014

There are 53 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, 2025 (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	German (de) Internet Explorer		100
2	Malay (ms) Internet Explorer		96
3	English (en) Internet Explorer		94.2354
4	Spanish (es) Internet Explorer		90
5	Italian (it) Internet Explorer		88.2978
6	Simple English (simple) Internet Explorer		88.2693
7	Chinese (zh) Internet Explorer		74.1232
8	Vietnamese (vi) Internet Explorer		71.4736
9	Russian (ru) Internet Explorer		63.2537
10	Portuguese (pt) Internet Explorer		63.1119

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Internet Explorer		20 605 003
2	Spanish (es) Internet Explorer		5 121 945
3	Japanese (ja) Internet Explorer		3 602 288
4	German (de) Internet Explorer		2 970 013
5	Russian (ru) Internet Explorer		2 103 236
6	French (fr) Internet Explorer		1 515 538
7	Portuguese (pt) Internet Explorer		1 162 985
8	Italian (it) Internet Explorer		983 797
9	Chinese (zh) Internet Explorer		769 178
10	Polish (pl) Internet Explorer		614 479

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) Internet Explorer		22 086
2	Spanish (es) Internet Explorer		4 314
3	Russian (ru) Internet Explorer		3 057
4	Japanese (ja) Internet Explorer		2 585
5	German (de) Internet Explorer		2 310
6	Chinese (zh) Internet Explorer		1 785
7	French (fr) Internet Explorer		1 615
8	Portuguese (pt) Internet Explorer		1 193
9	Italian (it) Internet Explorer		1 004
10	Simple English (simple) Internet Explorer		952

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Internet Explorer		1 879
2	German (de) Internet Explorer		620
3	French (fr) Internet Explorer		349
4	Spanish (es) Internet Explorer		320
5	Russian (ru) Internet Explorer		295
6	Italian (it) Internet Explorer		281
7	Japanese (ja) Internet Explorer		258
8	Chinese (zh) Internet Explorer		254
9	Dutch (nl) Internet Explorer		195
10	Polish (pl) Internet Explorer		181

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	English (en) Internet Explorer		4
2	German (de) Internet Explorer		2
3	French (fr) Internet Explorer		1
4	Japanese (ja) Internet Explorer		1
5	Chinese (zh) Internet Explorer		1
6	Arabic (ar) إنترنت إكسبلورر		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Internet Explorer		0
8	Belarusian (be) Internet Explorer		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Internet Explorer		0
10	Catalan (ca) Internet Explorer		0

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information