HTML

Quality:

HTML - family of markup languages for displaying content in a web browser. This programming language is the 3^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 5^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “HTML” in English Wikipedia has 59.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 115 references and 28 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 19.95 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2126^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1401^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 5^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1242^nd most popular in all topics.

The 643^rd most popular in AI.

The 3^rd most popular in programming languages.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9248^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9422^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4285^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “HTML” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 31 authors in all languages (4285^th place).

Since the creation of article “HTML”, its content was written by 1773 registered users of English Wikipedia (1401^st place) and edited by 7487 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (643^rd place).

HTML is on the 5^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 3^rd place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 3391 times in English Wikipedia (9041^st place) and cited 28107 times in all languages (6006^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3 in March 2001
• Global: #3 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #865 in September 2008
• Global: #385 in June 2013

There are 54 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, 2026 (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) HTML		84.5283
2	Greek (el) HTML		69.1471
3	English (en) HTML		59.8573
4	Persian (fa) اچ‌تی‌ام‌ال		53.8903
5	Polish (pl) HTML		51.8667
6	French (fr) Hypertext Markup Language		51.7487
7	Korean (ko) HTML		51.2157
8	Basque (eu) HTML		49.5765
9	Vietnamese (vi) HTML		48.2306
10	German (de) Hypertext Markup Language		47.4496

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) HTML		32 619 862
2	Spanish (es) HTML		14 002 697
3	Russian (ru) HTML		6 766 431
4	German (de) Hypertext Markup Language		4 643 954
5	Portuguese (pt) HTML		3 371 861
6	French (fr) Hypertext Markup Language		3 311 898
7	Japanese (ja) HyperText Markup Language		2 776 412
8	Polish (pl) HTML		2 349 729
9	Italian (it) HTML		2 119 967
10	Chinese (zh) HTML		1 608 435

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) HTML		63 068
2	Russian (ru) HTML		5 763
3	Spanish (es) HTML		5 532
4	French (fr) Hypertext Markup Language		3 661
5	German (de) Hypertext Markup Language		3 597
6	Chinese (zh) HTML		2 310
7	Portuguese (pt) HTML		2 254
8	Japanese (ja) HyperText Markup Language		1 946
9	Simple English (simple) HTML		1 872
10	Ukrainian (uk) HTML		1 627

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) HTML		1 773
2	German (de) Hypertext Markup Language		536
3	Spanish (es) HTML		512
4	French (fr) Hypertext Markup Language		405
5	Russian (ru) HTML		308
6	Italian (it) HTML		281
7	Polish (pl) HTML		237
8	Portuguese (pt) HTML		237
9	Dutch (nl) HyperText Markup Language		193
10	Japanese (ja) HyperText Markup Language		174

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	Arabic (ar) لغة تأشير النص الترابطي		6
2	Spanish (es) HTML		4
3	English (en) HTML		3
4	Chinese (zh) HTML		3
5	French (fr) Hypertext Markup Language		2
6	Dutch (nl) HyperText Markup Language		2
7	Czech (cs) Hypertext Markup Language		1
8	Greek (el) HTML		1
9	Basque (eu) HTML		1
10	Hebrew (he) HTML		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information