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Billion laughs attack

Quality:

Billion laughs attack - denial-of-service attack at XML parsers, exploiting entity expansion. Article “Billion laughs attack” in English Wikipedia has 23.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Billion laughs attack”, its content was written by 69 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 99 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 18 times in English Wikipedia and cited 30 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #36725 in October 2012
  • Global: #185209 in May 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #8433 in October 2012
  • Global: #21517 in October 2012

There are 7 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Ukrainian (uk)
Квадратичний вибух
28.2121
2German (de)
Entitätsexpansion
24.8191
3English (en)
Billion laughs attack
23.5197
4Spanish (es)
Mil millones de risas
19.7517
5Japanese (ja)
Billion laughs攻撃
14.988
6French (fr)
XML entity expansion
4.3779
7Esperanto (eo)
Miliard-rida atako
0.6754
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Billion laughs attack" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Billion laughs attack
1 128 774
2German (de)
Entitätsexpansion
15 312
3French (fr)
XML entity expansion
11 655
4Spanish (es)
Mil millones de risas
10 149
5Japanese (ja)
Billion laughs攻撃
7 291
6Esperanto (eo)
Miliard-rida atako
1 020
7Ukrainian (uk)
Квадратичний вибух
449
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Billion laughs attack" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Billion laughs attack
4 373
2Japanese (ja)
Billion laughs攻撃
95
3French (fr)
XML entity expansion
43
4German (de)
Entitätsexpansion
30
5Spanish (es)
Mil millones de risas
24
6Esperanto (eo)
Miliard-rida atako
12
7Ukrainian (uk)
Квадратичний вибух
9
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Billion laughs attack" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Billion laughs attack
69
2French (fr)
XML entity expansion
10
3German (de)
Entitätsexpansion
7
4Spanish (es)
Mil millones de risas
7
5Esperanto (eo)
Miliard-rida atako
2
6Japanese (ja)
Billion laughs攻撃
2
7Ukrainian (uk)
Квадратичний вибух
2
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Billion laughs attack" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Entitätsexpansion
0
2English (en)
Billion laughs attack
0
3Esperanto (eo)
Miliard-rida atako
0
4Spanish (es)
Mil millones de risas
0
5French (fr)
XML entity expansion
0
6Japanese (ja)
Billion laughs攻撃
0
7Ukrainian (uk)
Квадратичний вибух
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Billion laughs attack" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Billion laughs attack
18
2Japanese (ja)
Billion laughs攻撃
5
3French (fr)
XML entity expansion
3
4Spanish (es)
Mil millones de risas
2
5German (de)
Entitätsexpansion
1
6Ukrainian (uk)
Квадратичний вибух
1
7Esperanto (eo)
Miliard-rida atako
0
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Entitätsexpansion
enEnglish
Billion laughs attack
eoEsperanto
Miliard-rida atako
esSpanish
Mil millones de risas
frFrench
XML entity expansion
jaJapanese
Billion laughs攻撃
ukUkrainian
Квадратичний вибух

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#8433
10.2012
Global:
#21517
10.2012

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#36725
10.2012
Global:
#185209
05.2025

Local popularity rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Billion laughs attack from Wikipedia articles about Zip bomb, Fork bomb, Black fax, SVG and Buffer overflow. Whereas reading the article about Billion laughs attack people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Zip bomb, Fork bomb, XML external entity attack, Denial-of-service attack and XML.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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