Obfuscation (software)

Software obfuscation - creating difficult-to-understand computer code. Article "Obfuscation (software)" in English Wikipedia has 44 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 26 references and 14 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Since the creation of article "Obfuscation (software)", its content was written by 347 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 784 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 322 times in English Wikipedia and cited 835 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #63 in December 2001
• Global: #70 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #35923 in January 2017
• Global: #54628 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	German (de) Obfuskation (Software)		47.3662
2	English (en) Obfuscation (software)		43.971
3	Spanish (es) Ofuscación		40.2531
4	Arabic (ar) تعتيم (برمجة)		32.7498
5	Catalan (ca) Ofuscació de codi		29.8378
6	Polish (pl) Zaciemnianie kodu		25.908
7	Russian (ru) Обфускация (программное обеспечение)		23.4141
8	Persian (fa) مبهم‌سازی کد		22.216
9	Italian (it) Offuscamento del codice		22.1432
10	Dutch (nl) Obfuscatie (software)		21.8135

More...

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Obfuscation (software)		2 802 370
2	Spanish (es) Ofuscación		419 726
3	Russian (ru) Обфускация (программное обеспечение)		398 481
4	Polish (pl) Zaciemnianie kodu		129 077
5	French (fr) Code impénétrable		126 982
6	Japanese (ja) 難読化 (ソフトウェア)		114 673
7	Chinese (zh) 代码混淆		65 214
8	German (de) Obfuskation (Software)		59 480
9	Korean (ko) 난독화		50 375
10	Czech (cs) Obfuscator		27 870

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 "Obfuscation (software)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Obfuscation (software)		3 975
2	Russian (ru) Обфускация (программное обеспечение)		1 782
3	German (de) Obfuskation (Software)		674
4	Japanese (ja) 難読化 (ソフトウェア)		306
5	Chinese (zh) 代码混淆		298
6	Polish (pl) Zaciemnianie kodu		273
7	French (fr) Code impénétrable		269
8	Spanish (es) Ofuscación		264
9	Ukrainian (uk) Обфускація (програмне забезпечення)		163
10	Czech (cs) Obfuscator		69

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Obfuscation (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) Obfuscation (software)		347
2	German (de) Obfuskation (Software)		95
3	French (fr) Code impénétrable		76
4	Russian (ru) Обфускация (программное обеспечение)		68
5	Spanish (es) Ofuscación		36
6	Polish (pl) Zaciemnianie kodu		34
7	Italian (it) Offuscamento del codice		24
8	Chinese (zh) 代码混淆		23
9	Ukrainian (uk) Обфускація (програмне забезпечення)		16
10	Japanese (ja) 難読化 (ソフトウェア)		14

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Ofuscació de codi		1
2	Korean (ko) 난독화		1
3	Arabic (ar) تعتيم (برمجة)		0
4	Czech (cs) Obfuscator		0
5	German (de) Obfuskation (Software)		0
6	English (en) Obfuscation (software)		0
7	Spanish (es) Ofuscación		0
8	Persian (fa) مبهم‌سازی کد		0
9	French (fr) Code impénétrable		0
10	Hebrew (he) ערפול (תוכנה)		0

More...

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

Language versions of the article "Obfuscation (software)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Obfuscation (software)		322
2	Persian (fa) مبهم‌سازی کد		87
3	Arabic (ar) تعتيم (برمجة)		68
4	Chinese (zh) 代码混淆		65
5	Korean (ko) 난독화		56
6	Spanish (es) Ofuscación		50
7	German (de) Obfuskation (Software)		40
8	Russian (ru) Обфускация (программное обеспечение)		35
9	French (fr) Code impénétrable		34
10	Japanese (ja) 難読化 (ソフトウェア)		19

More...

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تعتيم (برمجة)
ca	Catalan Ofuscació de codi
cs	Czech Obfuscator
de	German Obfuskation (Software)
en	English Obfuscation (software)
es	Spanish Ofuscación
fa	Persian مبهم‌سازی کد
fr	French Code impénétrable
he	Hebrew ערפול (תוכנה)
it	Italian Offuscamento del codice
ja	Japanese 難読化 (ソフトウェア)
ko	Korean 난독화
nl	Dutch Obfuscatie (software)
pl	Polish Zaciemnianie kodu
ru	Russian Обфускация (программное обеспечение)
sr	Serbian Маскирање кода
sv	Swedish Obfuscator
uk	Ukrainian Обфускація (програмне забезпечення)
zh	Chinese 代码混淆

Best Rank

English: #35923 01.2017

Global: #54628 04.2009

Best Rank

English: #63 12.2001

Global: #70 12.2001

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