Executable compression

Executable compression - means of compressing an executable file which transparently preserves its executability. Article “Executable compression” in English Wikipedia has 45.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 37 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.42 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 “Executable compression”, its content was written by 99 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 180 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 256 times in English Wikipedia and cited 474 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #26841 in August 2006
• Global: #50487 in August 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #200665 in March 2009
• Global: #238421 in March 2009

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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Executable compression		45.917
2	Chinese (zh) 可执行文件压缩		37.1288
3	Spanish (es) Empaquetador de ejecutables		27.6233
4	Italian (it) Packer (informatica)		8.7114
5	Russian (ru) Упаковка исполняемых файлов		4.423
6	Korean (ko) 실행 파일 압축		4.4136
7	German (de) Kompression ausführbarer Programmdateien		3.4839
8	Japanese (ja) 実行ファイル圧縮		2.9273

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Executable compression" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Executable compression		473 190
2	Russian (ru) Упаковка исполняемых файлов		59 059
3	German (de) Kompression ausführbarer Programmdateien		56 094
4	Japanese (ja) 実行ファイル圧縮		37 699
5	Korean (ko) 실행 파일 압축		26 334
6	Italian (it) Packer (informatica)		19 648
7	Chinese (zh) 可执行文件压缩		3 478
8	Spanish (es) Empaquetador de ejecutables		1 942

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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 "Executable compression" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Executable compression		1 852
2	German (de) Kompression ausführbarer Programmdateien		95
3	Russian (ru) Упаковка исполняемых файлов		70
4	Japanese (ja) 実行ファイル圧縮		44
5	Italian (it) Packer (informatica)		36
6	Chinese (zh) 可执行文件压缩		33
7	Korean (ko) 실행 파일 압축		16
8	Spanish (es) Empaquetador de ejecutables		10

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Executable compression		99
2	German (de) Kompression ausführbarer Programmdateien		25
3	Russian (ru) Упаковка исполняемых файлов		17
4	Italian (it) Packer (informatica)		16
5	Japanese (ja) 実行ファイル圧縮		8
6	Korean (ko) 실행 파일 압축		7
7	Spanish (es) Empaquetador de ejecutables		5
8	Chinese (zh) 可执行文件压缩		3

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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 "Executable compression" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Kompression ausführbarer Programmdateien		0
2	English (en) Executable compression		0
3	Spanish (es) Empaquetador de ejecutables		0
4	Italian (it) Packer (informatica)		0
5	Japanese (ja) 実行ファイル圧縮		0
6	Korean (ko) 실행 파일 압축		0
7	Russian (ru) Упаковка исполняемых файлов		0
8	Chinese (zh) 可执行文件压缩		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 "Executable compression" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Executable compression		256
2	Korean (ko) 실행 파일 압축		103
3	Chinese (zh) 可执行文件压缩		66
4	Russian (ru) Упаковка исполняемых файлов		18
5	German (de) Kompression ausführbarer Programmdateien		10
6	Japanese (ja) 実行ファイル圧縮		8
7	Italian (it) Packer (informatica)		7
8	Spanish (es) Empaquetador de ejecutables		6

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#	Language	Value
de	German Kompression ausführbarer Programmdateien
en	English Executable compression
es	Spanish Empaquetador de ejecutables
it	Italian Packer (informatica)
ja	Japanese 実行ファイル圧縮
ko	Korean 실행 파일 압축
ru	Russian Упаковка исполняемых файлов
zh	Chinese 可执行文件压缩

Best Rank

English: #200665 03.2009

Global: #238421 03.2009

Best Rank

English: #26841 08.2006

Global: #50487 08.2006

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