Defensive driving

Defensive driving - precautionary driving to save lives, time, and money, in spite of the conditions around you and the actions of others. Article “Defensive driving” in English Wikipedia has 23.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.6 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.

Since the creation of article “Defensive driving”, its content was written by 161 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 260 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 34 times in English Wikipedia and cited 60 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #18065 in March 2007
• Global: #50470 in September 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #111668 in January 2008
• Global: #130824 in November 2013

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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Defensive driving		23.3635
2	Czech (cs) Defenzivní jízda		20.2179
3	Chinese (zh) 防衛駕駛		17.7322
4	Portuguese (pt) Direção defensiva		15.2255
5	Italian (it) Guida difensiva		10.5287
6	Persian (fa) رانندگی تدافعی		9.3916
7	Turkish (tr) İleri sürüş teknikleri		6.6051

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Defensive driving" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Defensive driving		1 166 553
2	Portuguese (pt) Direção defensiva		384 785
3	Chinese (zh) 防衛駕駛		57 310
4	Italian (it) Guida difensiva		29 482
5	Czech (cs) Defenzivní jízda		25 326
6	Persian (fa) رانندگی تدافعی		8 580
7	Turkish (tr) İleri sürüş teknikleri		5 424

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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 "Defensive driving" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Defensive driving		1 712
2	Portuguese (pt) Direção defensiva		325
3	Chinese (zh) 防衛駕駛		314
4	Turkish (tr) İleri sürüş teknikleri		110
5	Italian (it) Guida difensiva		49
6	Czech (cs) Defenzivní jízda		44
7	Persian (fa) رانندگی تدافعی		24

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Defensive driving		161
2	Italian (it) Guida difensiva		40
3	Portuguese (pt) Direção defensiva		23
4	Czech (cs) Defenzivní jízda		10
5	Turkish (tr) İleri sürüş teknikleri		10
6	Chinese (zh) 防衛駕駛		9
7	Persian (fa) رانندگی تدافعی		7

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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 "Defensive driving" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Czech (cs) Defenzivní jízda		0
2	English (en) Defensive driving		0
3	Persian (fa) رانندگی تدافعی		0
4	Italian (it) Guida difensiva		0
5	Portuguese (pt) Direção defensiva		0
6	Turkish (tr) İleri sürüş teknikleri		0
7	Chinese (zh) 防衛駕駛		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 "Defensive driving" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Defensive driving		34
2	Portuguese (pt) Direção defensiva		16
3	Chinese (zh) 防衛駕駛		4
4	Italian (it) Guida difensiva		3
5	Persian (fa) رانندگی تدافعی		2
6	Turkish (tr) İleri sürüş teknikleri		1
7	Czech (cs) Defenzivní jízda		0

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Defenzivní jízda
en	English Defensive driving
fa	Persian رانندگی تدافعی
it	Italian Guida difensiva
pt	Portuguese Direção defensiva
tr	Turkish İleri sürüş teknikleri
zh	Chinese 防衛駕駛

Best Rank

English: #111668 01.2008

Global: #130824 11.2013

Best Rank

English: #18065 03.2007

Global: #50470 09.2006

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