Backpage

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Backpage - former largest, online marketplace for buying and selling sex. This company is the 1168^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of business and the 555^th most popular company in English Wikipedia and the 153^rd most popular website in English Wikipedia. Article “Backpage” in English Wikipedia has 75.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 193 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 13.27 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 555^th most popular in business in English Wikipedia.

The 153^rd most popular in websites in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1168^th most popular in business.

The 258^th most popular in websites.

In June 2026 the article “Backpage” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Backpage”, its content was written by 294 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 307 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Backpage is on the 555^th place in local ranking of business in English Wikipedia and on the 1168^th place in global ranking of business in all the time.

Backpage is on the 153^rd place in local ranking of websites in English Wikipedia and on the 258^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 49 times in English Wikipedia and cited 63 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #470 in April 2018
• Global: #3966 in April 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #181 in October 2014
• Global: #1197 in October 2014

There are 4 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) Backpage		75.1761
2	French (fr) Backpage		20.6238
3	Japanese (ja) Backpage		19.0797
4	Simple English (simple) Backpage		5.7514

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Backpage		7 538 237
2	Japanese (ja) Backpage		13 909
3	French (fr) Backpage		5 364
4	Simple English (simple) Backpage		3 694

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) Backpage		24 626
2	French (fr) Backpage		133
3	Simple English (simple) Backpage		48
4	Japanese (ja) Backpage		15

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Backpage		294
2	French (fr) Backpage		7
3	Japanese (ja) Backpage		3
4	Simple English (simple) Backpage		3

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) Backpage		2
2	French (fr) Backpage		0
3	Japanese (ja) Backpage		0
4	Simple English (simple) Backpage		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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