Program counter

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Program counter

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Program counter - processor register that indicates the location in memory of the currently-executing instruction in the binary code of a program. Article "Program counter" in English Wikipedia has 29.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 6 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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 "Program counter" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Program counter", its content was written by 90 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 374 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 382 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1572 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #3291 in June 2002
  • Global: #3991 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #84198 in September 2014
  • Global: #86188 in October 2014

There are 22 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Program counter
29.1571
2Lithuanian (lt)
Programos skaitiklis
18.6618
3German (de)
Befehlszähler
18.3482
4Chinese (zh)
程式計數器
17.9601
5Catalan (ca)
Comptador de programa
16.0072
6Ukrainian (uk)
Лічильник команд
13.606
7Korean (ko)
프로그램 카운터
11.4243
8Russian (ru)
Счётчик команд
9.5502
9Arabic (ar)
عداد البرنامج
8.7005
10Persian (fa)
شمارنده برنامه
6.8853
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Program counter" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Program counter
1 581 861
2Spanish (es)
Contador de programa
355 430
3Chinese (zh)
程式計數器
152 260
4German (de)
Befehlszähler
141 953
5Italian (it)
Program counter
139 632
6Russian (ru)
Счётчик команд
96 300
7French (fr)
Compteur ordinal
83 448
8Korean (ko)
프로그램 카운터
73 380
9Portuguese (pt)
Contador de programa
58 928
10Czech (cs)
Čítač instrukcí
21 650
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Program counter" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Program counter
3 760
2Chinese (zh)
程式計數器
301
3Spanish (es)
Contador de programa
195
4Russian (ru)
Счётчик команд
176
5German (de)
Befehlszähler
154
6Italian (it)
Program counter
144
7Korean (ko)
프로그램 카운터
144
8French (fr)
Compteur ordinal
82
9Portuguese (pt)
Contador de programa
52
10Persian (fa)
شمارنده برنامه
51
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Program counter" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Program counter
90
2German (de)
Befehlszähler
51
3Italian (it)
Program counter
31
4Russian (ru)
Счётчик команд
28
5Spanish (es)
Contador de programa
26
6French (fr)
Compteur ordinal
25
7Chinese (zh)
程式計數器
17
8Czech (cs)
Čítač instrukcí
14
9Ukrainian (uk)
Лічильник команд
13
10Persian (fa)
شمارنده برنامه
12
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Program counter" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Program counter
3
2Persian (fa)
شمارنده برنامه
1
3Ukrainian (uk)
Лічильник команд
1
4Arabic (ar)
عداد البرنامج
0
5Catalan (ca)
Comptador de programa
0
6Czech (cs)
Čítač instrukcí
0
7Danish (da)
Instruktionstæller
0
8German (de)
Befehlszähler
0
9Spanish (es)
Contador de programa
0
10French (fr)
Compteur ordinal
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Program counter" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Program counter
382
2Persian (fa)
شمارنده برنامه
171
3Russian (ru)
Счётчик команд
149
4Chinese (zh)
程式計數器
133
5Korean (ko)
프로그램 카운터
132
6French (fr)
Compteur ordinal
130
7German (de)
Befehlszähler
66
8Arabic (ar)
عداد البرنامج
60
9Spanish (es)
Contador de programa
60
10Italian (it)
Program counter
54
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
عداد البرنامج
caCatalan
Comptador de programa
csCzech
Čítač instrukcí
daDanish
Instruktionstæller
deGerman
Befehlszähler
enEnglish
Program counter
esSpanish
Contador de programa
faPersian
شمارنده برنامه
frFrench
Compteur ordinal
huHungarian
Programszámláló
itItalian
Program counter
koKorean
프로그램 카운터
ltLithuanian
Programos skaitiklis
nlDutch
Programmateller
noNorwegian
Programteller
ptPortuguese
Contador de programa
ruRussian
Счётчик команд
srSerbian
IP (процесор)
svSwedish
Instruktionspekare
trTurkish
Program sayacı
ukUkrainian
Лічильник команд
zhChinese
程式計數器

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#84198
09.2014
Global:
#86188
10.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#3291
06.2002
Global:
#3991
06.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Program counter from Wikipedia articles about Von Neumann architecture, Instruction cycle, Brainfuck, Central processing unit and Memory address. Whereas reading the article about Program counter people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Processor register, Von Neumann architecture, Instruction cycle, IBM 701 and Instruction register.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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