Defence in depth

Defence in depth - military strategy where a defender delays and spreads out an attacker's advance. Article “Defence in depth” in English Wikipedia has 16.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.86 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Defence in depth”, its content was written by 123 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 363 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 606 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1499 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #23751 in December 2003
• Global: #42171 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #42920 in November 2009
• Global: #67867 in November 2009

There are 20 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	Simple English (simple) Defence in depth		41.5113
2	Chinese (zh) 縱深防禦		22.8609
3	English (en) Defence in depth		16.3587
4	Portuguese (pt) Defesa em profundidade		14.437
5	Korean (ko) 종심방어		12.8272
6	German (de) Operationsart		11.7605
7	Spanish (es) Defensa en profundidad		11.2616
8	Ukrainian (uk) Глибока оборона		10.4467
9	Hebrew (he) הגנה לעומק		10.0454
10	Vietnamese (vi) Phòng ngự chiều sâu		7.763

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Defence in depth" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Defence in depth		1 283 436
2	Japanese (ja) 縦深防御		276 917
3	German (de) Operationsart		134 445
4	Spanish (es) Defensa en profundidad		103 090
5	Chinese (zh) 縱深防禦		81 365
6	French (fr) Défense en profondeur		69 513
7	Korean (ko) 종심방어		36 300
8	Simple English (simple) Defence in depth		15 560
9	Vietnamese (vi) Phòng ngự chiều sâu		13 828
10	Portuguese (pt) Defesa em profundidade		11 067

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Defence in depth" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Defence in depth		6 007
2	Japanese (ja) 縦深防御		1 271
3	Simple English (simple) Defence in depth		777
4	Chinese (zh) 縱深防禦		555
5	German (de) Operationsart		396
6	French (fr) Défense en profondeur		260
7	Spanish (es) Defensa en profundidad		164
8	Korean (ko) 종심방어		145
9	Ukrainian (uk) Глибока оборона		86
10	Vietnamese (vi) Phòng ngự chiều sâu		57

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

Language versions of the article "Defence in depth" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Defence in depth		123
2	German (de) Operationsart		46
3	French (fr) Défense en profondeur		32
4	Spanish (es) Defensa en profundidad		24
5	Japanese (ja) 縦深防御		24
6	Hebrew (he) הגנה לעומק		20
7	Chinese (zh) 縱深防禦		17
8	Korean (ko) 종심방어		12
9	Dutch (nl) Diepteverdediging		12
10	Simple English (simple) Defence in depth		9

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

Language versions of the article "Defence in depth" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Simple English (simple) Defence in depth		2
2	Persian (fa) دفاع در عمق		1
3	Turkish (tr) Derinlemesine savunma		1
4	Danish (da) Forsvar i dybden		0
5	German (de) Operationsart		0
6	English (en) Defence in depth		0
7	Spanish (es) Defensa en profundidad		0
8	French (fr) Défense en profondeur		0
9	Hebrew (he) הגנה לעומק		0
10	Italian (it) Difesa elastica		0

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

Language versions of the article "Defence in depth" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Defence in depth		606
2	French (fr) Défense en profondeur		222
3	Chinese (zh) 縱深防禦		132
4	Ukrainian (uk) Глибока оборона		104
5	Turkish (tr) Derinlemesine savunma		101
6	German (de) Operationsart		100
7	Japanese (ja) 縦深防御		45
8	Simple English (simple) Defence in depth		42
9	Spanish (es) Defensa en profundidad		39
10	Hebrew (he) הגנה לעומק		24

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#	Language	Value
da	Danish Forsvar i dybden
de	German Operationsart
en	English Defence in depth
es	Spanish Defensa en profundidad
fa	Persian دفاع در عمق
fr	French Défense en profondeur
he	Hebrew הגנה לעומק
it	Italian Difesa elastica
ja	Japanese 縦深防御
ko	Korean 종심방어
ms	Malay Pertahanan secara mendalam
nl	Dutch Diepteverdediging
pt	Portuguese Defesa em profundidade
simple	Simple English Defence in depth
sl	Slovenian Globinska obramba
sv	Swedish Försvar på djupet
tr	Turkish Derinlemesine savunma
uk	Ukrainian Глибока оборона
vi	Vietnamese Phòng ngự chiều sâu
zh	Chinese 縱深防禦

Best Rank

English: #42920 11.2009

Global: #67867 11.2009

Best Rank

English: #23751 12.2003

Global: #42171 12.2003

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