Lossy compression

Lossy compression - data compression approach that results in loss or change of some data. Article "Lossy compression" in English Wikipedia has 43 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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.

In June 2025 the article "Lossy compression" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Lossy compression", its content was written by 262 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 844 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 666 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2405 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): #31920 in April 2008
• Global: #29422 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 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) Lossy compression		42.9886
2	Estonian (et) Kadudega pakkimine		35.609
3	Persian (fa) فشرده‌سازی بااتلاف		33.5719
4	Italian (it) Compressione dati lossy		28.806
5	Esperanto (eo) Perda datumkompaktigo		28.6766
6	Chinese (zh) 有损数据压缩		27.402
7	Finnish (fi) Häviöllinen pakkausmenetelmä		25.665
8	Simple English (simple) Lossy compression		23.2669
9	Polish (pl) Kompresja stratna		22.2382
10	Croatian (hr) Sažimanje podataka s gubitcima		21.7153

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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		3 377 586
2	Polish (pl) Kompresja stratna		405 269
3	Japanese (ja) 非可逆圧縮		401 184
4	Russian (ru) Сжатие с потерями		320 136
5	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de compresión con pérdida		250 309
6	Chinese (zh) 有损数据压缩		149 651
7	Italian (it) Compressione dati lossy		133 252
8	Czech (cs) Ztrátová komprese		104 206
9	Hungarian (hu) Veszteséges tömörítés		93 367
10	Portuguese (pt) Compressão com perda de dados		82 814

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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 June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lossy compression		6 189
2	Japanese (ja) 非可逆圧縮		559
3	Russian (ru) Сжатие с потерями		423
4	Chinese (zh) 有损数据压缩		355
5	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de compresión con pérdida		265
6	Polish (pl) Kompresja stratna		143
7	Italian (it) Compressione dati lossy		139
8	Czech (cs) Ztrátová komprese		116
9	Portuguese (pt) Compressão com perda de dados		103
10	Korean (ko) 손실 압축		94

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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		262
2	Polish (pl) Kompresja stratna		60
3	Russian (ru) Сжатие с потерями		54
4	Italian (it) Compressione dati lossy		49
5	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de compresión con pérdida		41
6	Chinese (zh) 有损数据压缩		39
7	Arabic (ar) ضغط ذو خسارة		36
8	Japanese (ja) 非可逆圧縮		27
9	Swedish (sv) Destruktiv komprimering		26
10	Hebrew (he) דחיסה מאבדת נתונים		25

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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 June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lossy compression		2
2	Arabic (ar) ضغط ذو خسارة		1
3	Persian (fa) فشرده‌سازی بااتلاف		1
4	Polish (pl) Kompresja stratna		1
5	Chinese (zh) 有损数据压缩		1
6	Catalan (ca) Algorisme de compressió amb pèrdua		0
7	Czech (cs) Ztrátová komprese		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Perda datumkompaktigo		0
9	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de compresión con pérdida		0
10	Estonian (et) Kadudega pakkimine		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		666
2	Korean (ko) 손실 압축		284
3	Japanese (ja) 非可逆圧縮		199
4	Chinese (zh) 有损数据压缩		189
5	Ukrainian (uk) Стиснення з утратами		120
6	Polish (pl) Kompresja stratna		106
7	Italian (it) Compressione dati lossy		98
8	Spanish (es) Algoritmo de compresión con pérdida		91
9	Arabic (ar) ضغط ذو خسارة		86
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: #31920 04.2008

Global: #29422 01.2008

Best Rank

English: #44 10.2001

Global: #65 10.2001

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