Lossy compression

Lossy compression - data compression approach that results in loss or change of some data. Article "Lossy compression" in English Wikipedia has 46 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 20 references and 16 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Lossy compression", its content was written by 257 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 816 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 655 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2341 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #44 in October 2001
• Global: #65 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #31946 in April 2008
• Global: #29453 in January 2008

There are 30 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Lossy compression		46.0223
2	Estonian (et) Kadudega pakkimine		35.911
3	Persian (fa) فشرده‌سازی بااتلاف		33.661
4	Italian (it) Compressione dati lossy		29.0246
5	Esperanto (eo) Perda datumkompaktigo		28.6867
6	Chinese (zh) 有损数据压缩		26.4436
7	Finnish (fi) Häviöllinen pakkausmenetelmä		25.6565
8	Simple English (simple) Lossy compression		23.274
9	Polish (pl) Kompresja stratna		22.2906
10	Croatian (hr) Sažimanje podataka s gubitcima		22.0792

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Lossy compression" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lossy compression		3 312 745
2	Polish (pl) Kompresja stratna		401 985
3	Japanese (ja) 非可逆圧縮		393 509
4	Russian (ru) Сжатие с потерями		313 516
5	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de compresión con pérdida		247 262
6	Chinese (zh) 有损数据压缩		144 698
7	Italian (it) Compressione dati lossy		130 836
8	Czech (cs) Ztrátová komprese		101 656
9	Hungarian (hu) Veszteséges tömörítés		92 420
10	Portuguese (pt) Compressão com perda de dados		81 653

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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 "Lossy compression" in July 2024

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lossy compression		5 516
2	Japanese (ja) 非可逆圧縮		1 146
3	Chinese (zh) 有损数据压缩		692
4	Russian (ru) Сжатие с потерями		496
5	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de compresión con pérdida		342
6	Italian (it) Compressione dati lossy		224
7	Polish (pl) Kompresja stratna		165
8	Korean (ko) 손실 압축		138
9	Portuguese (pt) Compressão com perda de dados		80
10	Indonesian (id) Kompresi lesap		61

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lossy compression		257
2	Polish (pl) Kompresja stratna		58
3	Russian (ru) Сжатие с потерями		54
4	Italian (it) Compressione dati lossy		47
5	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de compresión con pérdida		40
6	Chinese (zh) 有损数据压缩		37
7	Arabic (ar) ضغط ذو خسارة		31
8	Japanese (ja) 非可逆圧縮		27
9	Swedish (sv) Destruktiv komprimering		26
10	Hebrew (he) דחיסה מאבדת נתונים		23

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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 "Lossy compression" with the highest AI in July 2024

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) ضغط ذو خسارة		0
2	Catalan (ca) Algorisme de compressió amb pèrdua		0
3	Czech (cs) Ztrátová komprese		0
4	English (en) Lossy compression		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Perda datumkompaktigo		0
6	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de compresión con pérdida		0
7	Estonian (et) Kadudega pakkimine		0
8	Basque (eu) Galeradun konpresio		0
9	Persian (fa) فشرده‌سازی بااتلاف		0
10	Finnish (fi) Häviöllinen pakkausmenetelmä		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 "Lossy compression" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Lossy compression		655
2	Korean (ko) 손실 압축		279
3	Japanese (ja) 非可逆圧縮		195
4	Chinese (zh) 有损数据压缩		187
5	Ukrainian (uk) Стиснення з утратами		119
6	Polish (pl) Kompresja stratna		105
7	Italian (it) Compressione dati lossy		94
8	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de compresión con pérdida		90
9	Arabic (ar) ضغط ذو خسارة		81
10	Russian (ru) Сжатие с потерями		80

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ضغط ذو خسارة
ca	Catalan Algorisme de compressió amb pèrdua
cs	Czech Ztrátová komprese
en	English Lossy compression
eo	Esperanto Perda datumkompaktigo
es	Spanish Algoritmo de compresión con pérdida
et	Estonian Kadudega pakkimine
eu	Basque Galeradun konpresio
fa	Persian فشرده‌سازی بااتلاف
fi	Finnish Häviöllinen pakkausmenetelmä
gl	Galician Algoritmo de compresión con perda
he	Hebrew דחיסה מאבדת נתונים
hr	Croatian Sažimanje podataka s gubitcima
hu	Hungarian Veszteséges tömörítés
id	Indonesian Kompresi lesap
it	Italian Compressione dati lossy
ja	Japanese 非可逆圧縮
ko	Korean 손실 압축
la	Latin Compressio damnosa
no	Norwegian Destruktiv komprimering
pl	Polish Kompresja stratna
pt	Portuguese Compressão com perda de dados
ru	Russian Сжатие с потерями
simple	Simple English Lossy compression
sk	Slovak Stratová kompresia
sr	Serbian Компресија са губитком
sv	Swedish Destruktiv komprimering
uk	Ukrainian Стиснення з утратами
vi	Vietnamese Nén có tổn hao
zh	Chinese 有损数据压缩

Best Rank

English: #31946 04.2008

Global: #29453 01.2008

Best Rank

English: #44 10.2001

Global: #65 10.2001

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