JavaScript

Quality:

This programming language is the 5^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 4^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “JavaScript” in English Wikipedia has 82.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 146 references and 42 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2007^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 876^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 4^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1808^th most popular in all topics.

The 1100^th most popular in AI.

The 5^th most popular in programming languages.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9992^nd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8365^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “JavaScript” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 22 authors in all languages (8365^th place).

Since the creation of article “JavaScript”, its content was written by 2039 registered users of English Wikipedia (876^th place) and edited by 6237 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1100^th place).

JavaScript is on the 4^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 5^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 3787 times in English Wikipedia (7406^th place) and cited 23975 times in all languages (7071^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #387 in February 2002
• Global: #183 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #530 in August 2014
• Global: #815 in June 2013

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	Russian (ru) JavaScript		92.3077
2	Turkish (tr) JavaScript		84.3136
3	English (en) JavaScript		82.7097
4	German (de) JavaScript		79.4114
5	Chinese (zh) JavaScript		75.5963
6	Serbian (sr) JavaScript		73.6615
7	Indonesian (id) JavaScript		64.6007
8	Catalan (ca) JavaScript		57.8787
9	Estonian (et) JavaScript		56.8127
10	Spanish (es) JavaScript		53.9638

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) JavaScript		33 433 653
2	Russian (ru) JavaScript		6 364 218
3	Spanish (es) JavaScript		5 443 503
4	German (de) JavaScript		4 102 268
5	Japanese (ja) JavaScript		4 039 704
6	French (fr) JavaScript		3 023 591
7	Portuguese (pt) JavaScript		2 250 188
8	Chinese (zh) JavaScript		1 601 774
9	Italian (it) JavaScript		1 530 143
10	Polish (pl) JavaScript		1 457 104

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) JavaScript		59 916
2	German (de) JavaScript		5 489
3	Russian (ru) JavaScript		4 280
4	Japanese (ja) JavaScript		3 424
5	French (fr) JavaScript		3 408
6	Spanish (es) JavaScript		3 375
7	Portuguese (pt) JavaScript		1 991
8	Chinese (zh) JavaScript		1 780
9	Italian (it) JavaScript		1 362
10	Indonesian (id) JavaScript		872

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) JavaScript		2 039
2	German (de) JavaScript		500
3	French (fr) JavaScript		354
4	Russian (ru) JavaScript		282
5	Spanish (es) JavaScript		276
6	Italian (it) JavaScript		231
7	Portuguese (pt) JavaScript		195
8	Japanese (ja) JavaScript		184
9	Chinese (zh) JavaScript		171
10	Dutch (nl) JavaScript		133

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	English (en) JavaScript		5
2	Arabic (ar) جافا سكريبت		3
3	French (fr) JavaScript		3
4	Spanish (es) JavaScript		2
5	Persian (fa) جاوااسکریپت		2
6	Armenian (hy) ՋավաՍկրիպտ		2
7	Polish (pl) JavaScript		2
8	Basque (eu) JavaScript		1
9	Indonesian (id) JavaScript		1
10	Kazakh (kk) JavaScript		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