DDoS attacks on Dyn

Quality:

October 2016 Dyn cyberattack - large cyberattack that affected Europe and North America in 2016. Article “DDoS attacks on Dyn” in English Wikipedia has 57.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 113 references and 5 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “DDoS attacks on Dyn” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “DDoS attacks on Dyn”, its content was written by 137 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 377 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 252 times in English Wikipedia and cited 563 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #64 in October 2016
• Global: #96 in October 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1729 in October 2016
• Global: #5461 in October 2016

There are 16 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	Chinese (zh) 2016年Dyn网络攻击		58.6567
2	English (en) DDoS attacks on Dyn		57.5715
3	Catalan (ca) Ciberatac contra Dyn		55.0921
4	Indonesian (id) Serangan siber Dyn Oktober 2016		53.8765
5	Ukrainian (uk) Кібератака на Dyn		46.2447
6	Spanish (es) Ciberataque a Dyn de octubre de 2016		40.6858
7	Persian (fa) حمله سایبری به داین		37.8545
8	Russian (ru) Кибератака на Dyn		37.1309
9	Hebrew (he) מתקפת הסייבר על Dyn		36.1359
10	French (fr) Cyberattaque de 2016 contre Dyn		34.9883

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) DDoS attacks on Dyn		714 578
2	Chinese (zh) 2016年Dyn网络攻击		29 565
3	Spanish (es) Ciberataque a Dyn de octubre de 2016		24 304
4	French (fr) Cyberattaque de 2016 contre Dyn		22 928
5	German (de) DDoS-Angriffe auf Dyn		18 153
6	Arabic (ar) هجوم داين الإلكتروني		15 417
7	Russian (ru) Кибератака на Dyn		10 026
8	Hebrew (he) מתקפת הסייבר על Dyn		6 163
9	Indonesian (id) Serangan siber Dyn Oktober 2016		2 948
10	Polish (pl) Cyberatak na Dyn		2 912

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) DDoS attacks on Dyn		2 489
2	French (fr) Cyberattaque de 2016 contre Dyn		336
3	Chinese (zh) 2016年Dyn网络攻击		126
4	Spanish (es) Ciberataque a Dyn de octubre de 2016		120
5	German (de) DDoS-Angriffe auf Dyn		98
6	Russian (ru) Кибератака на Dyn		77
7	Arabic (ar) هجوم داين الإلكتروني		63
8	Hebrew (he) מתקפת הסייבר על Dyn		57
9	Polish (pl) Cyberatak na Dyn		41
10	Ukrainian (uk) Кібератака на Dyn		32

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) DDoS attacks on Dyn		137
2	German (de) DDoS-Angriffe auf Dyn		101
3	Arabic (ar) هجوم داين الإلكتروني		21
4	Hebrew (he) מתקפת הסייבר על Dyn		18
5	Chinese (zh) 2016年Dyn网络攻击		17
6	French (fr) Cyberattaque de 2016 contre Dyn		15
7	Catalan (ca) Ciberatac contra Dyn		11
8	Spanish (es) Ciberataque a Dyn de octubre de 2016		10
9	Russian (ru) Кибератака на Dyn		10
10	Ukrainian (uk) Кібератака на Dyn		8

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) DDoS attacks on Dyn		2
2	Polish (pl) Cyberatak na Dyn		1
3	Chinese (zh) 2016年Dyn网络攻击		1
4	Arabic (ar) هجوم داين الإلكتروني		0
5	Catalan (ca) Ciberatac contra Dyn		0
6	German (de) DDoS-Angriffe auf Dyn		0
7	Spanish (es) Ciberataque a Dyn de octubre de 2016		0
8	Persian (fa) حمله سایبری به داین		0
9	French (fr) Cyberattaque de 2016 contre Dyn		0
10	Hebrew (he) מתקפת הסייבר על Dyn		0

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

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