Nessus (software)

Nessus - free network vulnerability scanning tool. This software is the 406^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 425^th most popular software in English Wikipedia. Article "Nessus (software)" in English Wikipedia has 27.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 4 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 "Nessus (software)", its content was written by 126 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 418 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Nessus is on the 425^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 406^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 22 times in English Wikipedia and cited 126 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #15121 in October 2005
• Global: #29094 in October 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #77313 in April 2009
• Global: #84406 in April 2009

There are 19 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) Nessus (software)		27.0905
2	Turkish (tr) Nessus		26.0088
3	Vietnamese (vi) Nessus (phần mềm)		21.8846
4	Arabic (ar) نيساس		21.3415
5	German (de) Nessus (Software)		18.7149
6	Korean (ko) 네서스 (소프트웨어)		17.9112
7	Italian (it) Nessus		15.6425
8	Russian (ru) Nessus		14.2597
9	Armenian (hy) Nessus		14.1915
10	Portuguese (pt) Nessus Cloud		13.9926

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Nessus (software)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Nessus (software)		1 414 661
2	Spanish (es) Nessus		224 419
3	German (de) Nessus (Software)		214 389
4	French (fr) Nessus (logiciel)		196 521
5	Russian (ru) Nessus		143 561
6	Japanese (ja) Nessus		96 160
7	Chinese (zh) Nessus		65 784
8	Italian (it) Nessus		58 169
9	Portuguese (pt) Nessus Cloud		57 905
10	Dutch (nl) Nessus (software)		28 398

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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 "Nessus (software)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Nessus (software)		2 449
2	German (de) Nessus (Software)		521
3	Japanese (ja) Nessus		400
4	Russian (ru) Nessus		365
5	French (fr) Nessus (logiciel)		364
6	Chinese (zh) Nessus		130
7	Italian (it) Nessus		91
8	Ukrainian (uk) Nessus		86
9	Spanish (es) Nessus		84
10	Dutch (nl) Nessus (software)		60

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Nessus (software)		126
2	Italian (it) Nessus		52
3	German (de) Nessus (Software)		51
4	French (fr) Nessus (logiciel)		34
5	Dutch (nl) Nessus (software)		26
6	Russian (ru) Nessus		20
7	Chinese (zh) Nessus		15
8	Spanish (es) Nessus		12
9	Japanese (ja) Nessus		12
10	Portuguese (pt) Nessus Cloud		11

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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 "Nessus (software)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hebrew (he) Nessus		1
2	Italian (it) Nessus		1
3	Arabic (ar) نيساس		0
4	German (de) Nessus (Software)		0
5	English (en) Nessus (software)		0
6	Spanish (es) Nessus		0
7	Basque (eu) Nessus		0
8	French (fr) Nessus (logiciel)		0
9	Hungarian (hu) Nessus		0
10	Armenian (hy) Nessus		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 "Nessus (software)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Nessus (software)		22
2	German (de) Nessus (Software)		16
3	Dutch (nl) Nessus (software)		10
4	Spanish (es) Nessus		9
5	French (fr) Nessus (logiciel)		9
6	Italian (it) Nessus		8
7	Russian (ru) Nessus		8
8	Ukrainian (uk) Nessus		8
9	Hebrew (he) Nessus		7
10	Portuguese (pt) Nessus Cloud		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نيساس
de	German Nessus (Software)
en	English Nessus (software)
es	Spanish Nessus
eu	Basque Nessus
fr	French Nessus (logiciel)
he	Hebrew Nessus
hu	Hungarian Nessus
hy	Armenian Nessus
it	Italian Nessus
ja	Japanese Nessus
ko	Korean 네서스 (소프트웨어)
nl	Dutch Nessus (software)
pt	Portuguese Nessus Cloud
ru	Russian Nessus
tr	Turkish Nessus
uk	Ukrainian Nessus
vi	Vietnamese Nessus (phần mềm)
zh	Chinese Nessus

Best Rank

English: #77313 04.2009

Global: #84406 04.2009

Best Rank

English: #15121 10.2005

Global: #29094 10.2005

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