Internet Explorer

Quality:

Internet Explorer - discontinued web browser by Microsoft. This software is the 13^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 14^th most popular software in English Wikipedia. Article “Internet Explorer” in English Wikipedia has 93.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 145 references and 35 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5197^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1111^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 14^th most popular in software in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4473^rd most popular in all topics.

The 854^th most popular in AI.

The 13^th most popular in software.

In June 2026 the article “Internet Explorer” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Internet Explorer”, its content was written by 1907 registered users of English Wikipedia (1111^th place) and edited by 6821 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (854^th place).

Internet Explorer is on the 14^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 13^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 1742 times in English Wikipedia and cited 12642 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #151 in October 2004
• Global: #101 in June 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #185 in July 2014
• Global: #493 in July 2014

There are 53 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	German (de) Internet Explorer		100
2	English (en) Internet Explorer		93.8917
3	Malay (ms) Internet Explorer		93.3333
4	Spanish (es) Internet Explorer		90
5	Italian (it) Internet Explorer		87.7024
6	Simple English (simple) Internet Explorer		86.433
7	Chinese (zh) Internet Explorer		74.147
8	Vietnamese (vi) Internet Explorer		69.3612
9	Russian (ru) Internet Explorer		63.4098
10	Portuguese (pt) Internet Explorer		62.97

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Internet Explorer		20 933 581
2	Spanish (es) Internet Explorer		5 171 682
3	Japanese (ja) Internet Explorer		3 637 127
4	German (de) Internet Explorer		2 990 660
5	Russian (ru) Internet Explorer		2 136 695
6	French (fr) Internet Explorer		1 535 379
7	Portuguese (pt) Internet Explorer		1 177 342
8	Italian (it) Internet Explorer		997 103
9	Chinese (zh) Internet Explorer		786 407
10	Polish (pl) Internet Explorer		623 951

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) Internet Explorer		22 843
2	Spanish (es) Internet Explorer		2 858
3	Japanese (ja) Internet Explorer		2 158
4	Russian (ru) Internet Explorer		1 666
5	Chinese (zh) Internet Explorer		1 518
6	German (de) Internet Explorer		1 261
7	French (fr) Internet Explorer		1 183
8	Italian (it) Internet Explorer		812
9	Portuguese (pt) Internet Explorer		727
10	Polish (pl) Internet Explorer		711

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Internet Explorer		1 907
2	German (de) Internet Explorer		627
3	French (fr) Internet Explorer		354
4	Spanish (es) Internet Explorer		321
5	Russian (ru) Internet Explorer		296
6	Italian (it) Internet Explorer		282
7	Japanese (ja) Internet Explorer		262
8	Chinese (zh) Internet Explorer		257
9	Dutch (nl) Internet Explorer		195
10	Polish (pl) Internet Explorer		183

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	Portuguese (pt) Internet Explorer		4
2	English (en) Internet Explorer		2
3	Arabic (ar) إنترنت إكسبلورر		1
4	Catalan (ca) Internet Explorer		1
5	Basque (eu) Internet Explorer		1
6	Japanese (ja) Internet Explorer		1
7	Romanian (ro) Internet Explorer		1
8	Simple English (simple) Internet Explorer		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Internet Explorer		0
10	Belarusian (be) Internet Explorer		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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