Network switch

Quality:

Network switch - computer networking device that uses packet switching to forward data; one main component of the Internet infrastructure and of each computer network. Article “Network switch” in English Wikipedia has 61.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 40 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.26 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7046^th most popular in all topics.

Since the creation of article “Network switch”, its content was written by 539 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2424 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1673 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5346 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1085 in July 2002
• Global: #1220 in March 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4810 in April 2015
• Global: #2869 in March 2015

There are 44 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, 2026 (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	Estonian (et) Kohtvõrgu kommutaator		68.5858
2	English (en) Network switch		61.8873
3	Romanian (ro) Switch de rețea		56.4765
4	Korean (ko) 네트워크 스위치		48.6198
5	German (de) Switch (Netzwerktechnik)		46.2377
6	Serbian (sr) Mrežni prekidač		38.4418
7	Thai (th) เนตเวิร์กสวิตช์		29.1615
8	Arabic (ar) مبدل (شبكات)		28.9679
9	Chinese (zh) 網路交換器		28.4381
10	Italian (it) Switch		27.74

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Network switch		12 211 969
2	Spanish (es) Conmutador (dispositivo de red)		4 745 148
3	Russian (ru) Сетевой коммутатор		3 743 741
4	German (de) Switch (Netzwerktechnik)		3 628 060
5	French (fr) Commutateur réseau		1 731 789
6	Japanese (ja) スイッチングハブ		1 576 698
7	Italian (it) Switch		1 307 523
8	Portuguese (pt) Comutador (redes)		918 521
9	Polish (pl) Przełącznik sieciowy		789 502
10	Chinese (zh) 網路交換器		671 483

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Network switch		6 539
2	German (de) Switch (Netzwerktechnik)		2 551
3	Russian (ru) Сетевой коммутатор		2 025
4	French (fr) Commutateur réseau		1 155
5	Chinese (zh) 網路交換器		790
6	Italian (it) Switch		716
7	Spanish (es) Conmutador (dispositivo de red)		538
8	Japanese (ja) スイッチングハブ		434
9	Polish (pl) Przełącznik sieciowy		431
10	Portuguese (pt) Comutador (redes)		238

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Network switch		539
2	German (de) Switch (Netzwerktechnik)		306
3	French (fr) Commutateur réseau		165
4	Spanish (es) Conmutador (dispositivo de red)		158
5	Italian (it) Switch		112
6	Russian (ru) Сетевой коммутатор		106
7	Polish (pl) Przełącznik sieciowy		86
8	Portuguese (pt) Comutador (redes)		75
9	Dutch (nl) Switch (netwerk)		72
10	Chinese (zh) 網路交換器		63

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) مبدل (شبكات)		1
2	Galician (gl) Conmutador		1
3	Hebrew (he) מתג (רשתות מחשבים)		1
4	Indonesian (id) Pengalih jaringan		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) Şəbəkə sviçi		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Суич (компютърни мрежи)		0
7	Catalan (ca) Commutador (xarxa)		0
8	Czech (cs) Síťový přepínač		0
9	Danish (da) Netværksswitch		0
10	German (de) Switch (Netzwerktechnik)		0

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

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