Huffman coding

Huffman coding - entropy encoding algorithm used for lossless data compression. Article “Huffman coding” in English Wikipedia has 48.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 14 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.56 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.

In June 2026 the article “Huffman coding” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Huffman coding”, its content was written by 329 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1288 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 473 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1795 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #612 in October 2001
• Global: #300 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #11541 in April 2015
• Global: #16368 in April 2015

There are 35 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	English (en) Huffman coding		48.6367
2	Chinese (zh) 霍夫曼编码		41.2301
3	German (de) Huffman-Kodierung		38.2734
4	Catalan (ca) Codificació de Huffman		29.8828
5	Vietnamese (vi) Mã hóa Huffman		29.0523
6	Portuguese (pt) Codificação de Huffman		27.1544
7	Polish (pl) Kodowanie Huffmana		26.6377
8	Spanish (es) Codificación Huffman		26.6177
9	Russian (ru) Код Хаффмана		26.5929
10	Persian (fa) کدگذاری هافمن		26.3146

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Huffman coding" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Huffman coding		6 400 662
2	Russian (ru) Код Хаффмана		1 021 081
3	Chinese (zh) 霍夫曼编码		651 763
4	German (de) Huffman-Kodierung		592 785
5	French (fr) Codage de Huffman		543 840
6	Polish (pl) Kodowanie Huffmana		484 865
7	Japanese (ja) ハフマン符号		482 697
8	Spanish (es) Codificación Huffman		413 621
9	Portuguese (pt) Codificação de Huffman		218 622
10	Italian (it) Codifica di Huffman		194 269

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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 "Huffman coding" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Huffman coding		11 097
2	German (de) Huffman-Kodierung		1 261
3	Russian (ru) Код Хаффмана		1 136
4	French (fr) Codage de Huffman		1 038
5	Japanese (ja) ハフマン符号		931
6	Chinese (zh) 霍夫曼编码		895
7	Polish (pl) Kodowanie Huffmana		680
8	Spanish (es) Codificación Huffman		300
9	Portuguese (pt) Codificação de Huffman		290
10	Italian (it) Codifica di Huffman		222

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Huffman coding		329
2	French (fr) Codage de Huffman		100
3	German (de) Huffman-Kodierung		81
4	Italian (it) Codifica di Huffman		76
5	Chinese (zh) 霍夫曼编码		73
6	Polish (pl) Kodowanie Huffmana		61
7	Russian (ru) Код Хаффмана		60
8	Hebrew (he) קוד האפמן		56
9	Dutch (nl) Huffmancodering		47
10	Vietnamese (vi) Mã hóa Huffman		41

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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 "Huffman coding" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Huffman-Kodierung		4
2	English (en) Huffman coding		2
3	Russian (ru) Код Хаффмана		2
4	Arabic (ar) ترميز هوفمان		1
5	Japanese (ja) ハフマン符号		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Haffman kodlaşdırması		0
7	Catalan (ca) Codificació de Huffman		0
8	Czech (cs) Huffmanovo kódování		0
9	Danish (da) Huffman-kodning		0
10	Greek (el) Κωδικοποίηση Χούφμαν		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 "Huffman coding" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Huffman coding		473
2	Korean (ko) 허프먼 부호화		245
3	Russian (ru) Код Хаффмана		123
4	Japanese (ja) ハフマン符号		119
5	Chinese (zh) 霍夫曼编码		113
6	Ukrainian (uk) Код Гаффмана		88
7	French (fr) Codage de Huffman		86
8	German (de) Huffman-Kodierung		77
9	Catalan (ca) Codificació de Huffman		67
10	Persian (fa) کدگذاری هافمن		54

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ترميز هوفمان
az	Azerbaijani Haffman kodlaşdırması
ca	Catalan Codificació de Huffman
cs	Czech Huffmanovo kódování
da	Danish Huffman-kodning
de	German Huffman-Kodierung
el	Greek Κωδικοποίηση Χούφμαν
en	English Huffman coding
eo	Esperanto Kodado de Huffman
es	Spanish Codificación Huffman
et	Estonian Huffmani kodeerimine
eu	Basque Huffman kodifikazio
fa	Persian کدگذاری هافمن
fi	Finnish Huffmanin koodaus
fr	French Codage de Huffman
he	Hebrew קוד האפמן
hu	Hungarian Huffman-kódolás
id	Indonesian Pengodean Huffman
it	Italian Codifica di Huffman
ja	Japanese ハフマン符号
ka	Georgian ჰაფმენის კოდი
ko	Korean 허프먼 부호화
nl	Dutch Huffmancodering
no	Norwegian Huffman-koding
pl	Polish Kodowanie Huffmana
pt	Portuguese Codificação de Huffman
ru	Russian Код Хаффмана
simple	Simple English Huffman coding
sr	Serbian Хафманови кодови
sv	Swedish Huffmankodning
th	Thai การเข้ารหัสฮัฟฟ์แมน
tr	Turkish Huffman kodu
uk	Ukrainian Код Гаффмана
vi	Vietnamese Mã hóa Huffman
zh	Chinese 霍夫曼编码

Best Rank

English: #11541 04.2015

Global: #16368 04.2015

Best Rank

English: #612 10.2001

Global: #300 04.2002

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