Killer application

Killer application - software app so valuable that it makes the entire platform it runs on desirable. This software is the 358^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 313^th most popular software in English Wikipedia. Article “Killer application” in English Wikipedia has 62.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 100 references and 6 sections.

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 2025 the article “Killer application” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Killer application”, its content was written by 404 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 823 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Killer application is on the 313^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 358^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 212 times in English Wikipedia and cited 611 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #381 in January 2005
• Global: #2732 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #22023 in January 2009
• Global: #33058 in January 2009

There are 21 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) Killer application		62.9232
2	Simple English (simple) Killer application		30.8312
3	Italian (it) Killer application		29.1866
4	German (de) Killerapplikation		28.9197
5	Russian (ru) Killer application		25.7404
6	Ukrainian (uk) Убивчий застосунок		25.6677
7	Spanish (es) Aplicación estrella		22.5639
8	Finnish (fi) Läpimurtosovellus		22.4606
9	Polish (pl) Killer application		21.7108
10	Chinese (zh) 杀手级应用		19.2602

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Killer application" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Killer application		1 967 524
2	Italian (it) Killer application		157 242
3	German (de) Killerapplikation		144 233
4	Spanish (es) Aplicación estrella		135 138
5	Japanese (ja) キラーアプリケーション		109 713
6	French (fr) Application phare		92 941
7	Chinese (zh) 杀手级应用		51 376
8	Korean (ko) 킬러 애플리케이션		38 612
9	Polish (pl) Killer application		35 143
10	Russian (ru) Killer application		29 572

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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 "Killer application" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Killer application		7 051
2	Italian (it) Killer application		410
3	Russian (ru) Killer application		304
4	Japanese (ja) キラーアプリケーション		251
5	German (de) Killerapplikation		187
6	Spanish (es) Aplicación estrella		180
7	French (fr) Application phare		171
8	Chinese (zh) 杀手级应用		127
9	Korean (ko) 킬러 애플리케이션		88
10	Portuguese (pt) Aplicativo matador		49

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Killer application		404
2	French (fr) Application phare		69
3	German (de) Killerapplikation		68
4	Italian (it) Killer application		60
5	Dutch (nl) Killerapplicatie		36
6	Spanish (es) Aplicación estrella		31
7	Danish (da) Killer app		21
8	Polish (pl) Killer application		15
9	Simple English (simple) Killer application		15
10	Chinese (zh) 杀手级应用		15

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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 "Killer application" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Killer application		2
2	Arabic (ar) تطبيق قاتل		0
3	Catalan (ca) Aplicació assassina		0
4	Danish (da) Killer app		0
5	German (de) Killerapplikation		0
6	Spanish (es) Aplicación estrella		0
7	Basque (eu) Killer application		0
8	Finnish (fi) Läpimurtosovellus		0
9	French (fr) Application phare		0
10	Italian (it) Killer application		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 "Killer application" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Killer application		212
2	Italian (it) Killer application		57
3	Spanish (es) Aplicación estrella		50
4	French (fr) Application phare		39
5	Japanese (ja) キラーアプリケーション		34
6	German (de) Killerapplikation		29
7	Portuguese (pt) Aplicativo matador		25
8	Korean (ko) 킬러 애플리케이션		24
9	Chinese (zh) 杀手级应用		23
10	Finnish (fi) Läpimurtosovellus		20

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تطبيق قاتل
ca	Catalan Aplicació assassina
da	Danish Killer app
de	German Killerapplikation
en	English Killer application
es	Spanish Aplicación estrella
eu	Basque Killer application
fi	Finnish Läpimurtosovellus
fr	French Application phare
it	Italian Killer application
ja	Japanese キラーアプリケーション
ko	Korean 킬러 애플리케이션
nl	Dutch Killerapplicatie
pl	Polish Killer application
pt	Portuguese Aplicativo matador
ru	Russian Killer application
simple	Simple English Killer application
sv	Swedish Genombrottsprogram
tr	Turkish Gözde uygulama
uk	Ukrainian Убивчий застосунок
zh	Chinese 杀手级应用

Best Rank

English: #22023 01.2009

Global: #33058 01.2009

Best Rank

English: #381 01.2005

Global: #2732 01.2005

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