Ladder logic

Ladder logic - programming language that represents a program by a graphical diagram based on the circuit diagrams of relay logic hardware; used to develop software for programmable logic controllers used in industrial control applications. This programming language is the 68^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 74^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "Ladder logic" in English Wikipedia has 29.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 14 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In June 2025 the article "Ladder logic" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Ladder logic", its content was written by 146 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 464 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Ladder logic is on the 74^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 68^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 51 times in English Wikipedia and cited 280 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4503 in September 2003
• Global: #11791 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #53711 in April 2015
• Global: #45124 in April 2008

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	Spanish (es) Lenguaje ladder		33.9484
2	Turkish (tr) Merdiven mantığı		31.5941
3	English (en) Ladder logic		29.7742
4	Polish (pl) Język drabinkowy		28.7519
5	Portuguese (pt) Linguagem ladder		23.5101
6	Ukrainian (uk) Ladder diagram		19.383
7	Finnish (fi) Tikapuulogiikka		13.3836
8	Indonesian (id) Logika tangga		11.7964
9	Serbian (sr) Мердевинска логика		11.3206
10	French (fr) Langage Ladder		9.2169

More...

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Ladder logic" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ladder logic		2 489 310
2	Spanish (es) Lenguaje ladder		864 028
3	Japanese (ja) ラダー・ロジック		574 451
4	French (fr) Langage Ladder		329 946
5	Portuguese (pt) Linguagem ladder		304 879
6	Russian (ru) Ladder diagram		274 944
7	German (de) Kontaktplan		256 803
8	Italian (it) Ladder diagram		159 099
9	Polish (pl) Język drabinkowy		44 639
10	Dutch (nl) Ladderdiagram		34 234

More...

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 "Ladder logic" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ladder logic		5 526
2	Spanish (es) Lenguaje ladder		1 089
3	French (fr) Langage Ladder		718
4	Russian (ru) Ladder diagram		621
5	Japanese (ja) ラダー・ロジック		604
6	German (de) Kontaktplan		486
7	Portuguese (pt) Linguagem ladder		480
8	Italian (it) Ladder diagram		352
9	Polish (pl) Język drabinkowy		245
10	Chinese (zh) 梯形逻辑		154

More...

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ladder logic		146
2	French (fr) Langage Ladder		44
3	Italian (it) Ladder diagram		38
4	Spanish (es) Lenguaje ladder		36
5	German (de) Kontaktplan		35
6	Russian (ru) Ladder diagram		32
7	Japanese (ja) ラダー・ロジック		27
8	Dutch (nl) Ladderdiagram		24
9	Portuguese (pt) Linguagem ladder		15
10	Arabic (ar) برمجة سلمية		11

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Ladder logic" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ladder logic		3
2	Russian (ru) Ladder diagram		1
3	Arabic (ar) برمجة سلمية		0
4	Belarusian (be) Ladder Diagram		0
5	German (de) Kontaktplan		0
6	Spanish (es) Lenguaje ladder		0
7	Basque (eu) Ladder diagrama		0
8	Finnish (fi) Tikapuulogiikka		0
9	French (fr) Langage Ladder		0
10	Indonesian (id) Logika tangga		0

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Ladder logic" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) ラダー・ロジック		63
2	English (en) Ladder logic		51
3	Russian (ru) Ladder diagram		29
4	French (fr) Langage Ladder		20
5	German (de) Kontaktplan		19
6	Ukrainian (uk) Ladder diagram		17
7	Spanish (es) Lenguaje ladder		16
8	Portuguese (pt) Linguagem ladder		12
9	Italian (it) Ladder diagram		10
10	Chinese (zh) 梯形逻辑		10

More...

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic برمجة سلمية
be	Belarusian Ladder Diagram
de	German Kontaktplan
en	English Ladder logic
es	Spanish Lenguaje ladder
eu	Basque Ladder diagrama
fi	Finnish Tikapuulogiikka
fr	French Langage Ladder
id	Indonesian Logika tangga
it	Italian Ladder diagram
ja	Japanese ラダー・ロジック
ko	Korean 래더 로직
nl	Dutch Ladderdiagram
pl	Polish Język drabinkowy
pt	Portuguese Linguagem ladder
ru	Russian Ladder diagram
sr	Serbian Мердевинска логика
sv	Swedish Ladderdiagram
tr	Turkish Merdiven mantığı
uk	Ukrainian Ladder diagram
zh	Chinese 梯形逻辑

Best Rank

English: #53711 04.2015

Global: #45124 04.2008

Best Rank

English: #4503 09.2003

Global: #11791 07.2002

On 12 August 2025 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Cristiano Ronaldo, Wednesday, Georgina Rodríguez, ChatGPT, Weapons, Jenna Ortega, deaths in 2025, Taylor Swift, Miguel Uribe Turbay, 2025–26 UEFA Champions League.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Weapons (2025 film), Danielle Spencer (American actress), Cristiano Ronaldo, Deaths in 2025, Taylor Swift, Wednesday (TV series), Superman (2025 film), Georgina Rodríguez, Coolie (2025 film), The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information