Application layer

Quality:

Application layer - Highest layer of a networked communication model. Article “Application layer” in English Wikipedia has 29.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 19 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.26 points.

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

In June 2026 the article “Application layer” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Application layer”, its content was written by 265 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 874 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 364 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3128 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7524 in June 2004
• Global: #7054 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #16638 in March 2015
• Global: #7959 in September 2008

There are 36 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) Application layer		29.3348
2	Portuguese (pt) Camada de aplicação		27.318
3	Korean (ko) 응용 계층		27.178
4	Arabic (ar) طبقة التطبيق		21.2155
5	Kazakh (kk) Қолданбалы деңгей		19.2938
6	Norwegian (no) Applikasjonslaget		18.3906
7	Italian (it) Livello di applicazione		17.3871
8	Turkish (tr) Uygulama katmanı		16.499
9	Uzbek (uz) Amaliy sath		13.3885
10	Hungarian (hu) Alkalmazási réteg		12.2302

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Application layer		5 281 102
2	Spanish (es) Capa de aplicación		1 508 391
3	Russian (ru) Протоколы прикладного уровня		712 187
4	Portuguese (pt) Camada de aplicação		494 751
5	French (fr) Couche application		442 872
6	Japanese (ja) アプリケーション層		354 602
7	Italian (it) Livello di applicazione		255 565
8	Chinese (zh) 应用层		209 709
9	Dutch (nl) Toepassingslaag		91 865
10	Vietnamese (vi) Tầng ứng dụng		91 198

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) Application layer		5 259
2	Russian (ru) Протоколы прикладного уровня		1 060
3	Spanish (es) Capa de aplicación		309
4	French (fr) Couche application		285
5	Japanese (ja) アプリケーション層		279
6	Portuguese (pt) Camada de aplicação		255
7	Chinese (zh) 应用层		211
8	Italian (it) Livello di applicazione		163
9	Czech (cs) Aplikační vrstva		89
10	Turkish (tr) Uygulama katmanı		87

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Application layer		265
2	French (fr) Couche application		64
3	Spanish (es) Capa de aplicación		50
4	Italian (it) Livello di applicazione		49
5	Dutch (nl) Toepassingslaag		43
6	Turkish (tr) Uygulama katmanı		36
7	Russian (ru) Протоколы прикладного уровня		34
8	Chinese (zh) 应用层		31
9	Portuguese (pt) Camada de aplicação		27
10	Hebrew (he) שכבת היישום של מודל ה-OSI		26

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) Application layer		1
2	Arabic (ar) طبقة التطبيق		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Приложен слой на OSI модела		0
4	Catalan (ca) Capa d'aplicació		0
5	Czech (cs) Aplikační vrstva		0
6	Danish (da) Programlaget		0
7	Greek (el) Επίπεδο εφαρμογής		0
8	Spanish (es) Capa de aplicación		0
9	Estonian (et) Rakenduskiht		0
10	Basque (eu) Aplikazio geruza		0

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

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