Dead code

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Dead code

Quality:

Dead code - section in the source code of a program which is executed but whose result is never used in any other computation. The execution of dead code wastes computation time and memory. Article “Dead code” in English Wikipedia has 22.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 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 “Dead code”, its content was written by 41 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 86 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 20 times in English Wikipedia and cited 50 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #4967 in November 2002
  • Global: #8975 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #280996 in November 2010
  • Global: #448740 in November 2010

There are 8 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)
Мертвий код
32.9456
2Russian (ru)
Мёртвый код
31.449
3English (en)
Dead code
22.5732
4Spanish (es)
Código muerto
20.2856
5Korean (ko)
불필요한 코드
19.6412
6Turkish (tr)
Ölü kod
19.0874
7Italian (it)
Codice morto
11.618
8Persian (fa)
کد مرده
5.4465
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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 "Dead code" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Dead code
280 296
2Russian (ru)
Мёртвый код
23 700
3Spanish (es)
Código muerto
18 289
4Italian (it)
Codice morto
8 174
5Korean (ko)
불필요한 코드
3 603
6Turkish (tr)
Ölü kod
2 480
7Persian (fa)
کد مرده
607
8Ukrainian (uk)
Мертвий код
503
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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 "Dead code" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Dead code
905
2Russian (ru)
Мёртвый код
152
3Spanish (es)
Código muerto
28
4Italian (it)
Codice morto
24
5Persian (fa)
کد مرده
18
6Korean (ko)
불필요한 코드
10
7Turkish (tr)
Ölü kod
8
8Ukrainian (uk)
Мертвий код
8
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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 "Dead code" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Dead code
41
2Italian (it)
Codice morto
16
3Russian (ru)
Мёртвый код
8
4Turkish (tr)
Ölü kod
8
5Spanish (es)
Código muerto
6
6Persian (fa)
کد مرده
3
7Ukrainian (uk)
Мертвий код
3
8Korean (ko)
불필요한 코드
1
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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 "Dead code" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Dead code
0
2Spanish (es)
Código muerto
0
3Persian (fa)
کد مرده
0
4Italian (it)
Codice morto
0
5Korean (ko)
불필요한 코드
0
6Russian (ru)
Мёртвый код
0
7Turkish (tr)
Ölü kod
0
8Ukrainian (uk)
Мертвий код
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 "Dead code" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Dead code
20
2Russian (ru)
Мёртвый код
9
3Spanish (es)
Código muerto
6
4Ukrainian (uk)
Мертвий код
6
5Persian (fa)
کد مرده
3
6Italian (it)
Codice morto
3
7Turkish (tr)
Ölü kod
2
8Korean (ko)
불필요한 코드
1
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Scores

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Popularity in all years:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
Dead code
esSpanish
Código muerto
faPersian
کد مرده
itItalian
Codice morto
koKorean
불필요한 코드
ruRussian
Мёртвый код
trTurkish
Ölü kod
ukUkrainian
Мертвий код

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#280996
11.2010
Global:
#448740
11.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#4967
11.2002
Global:
#8975
11.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Dead code from Wikipedia articles about Ariane flight V88, Unreachable code, Software testing, Dead code elimination and Software rot. Whereas reading the article about Dead code people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Unreachable code, Dead code elimination, Oxbow code, Redundant code and Interprocedural optimization.

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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