Program counter

en

WikiRank.net
ver. 1.6.3

Program counter

Quality:

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 26.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 15 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.38 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Program counter”, its content was written by 92 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 382 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 396 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1740 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #3293 in June 2002
  • Global: #3993 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #84714 in September 2014
  • Global: #87550 in October 2014

There are 23 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Turkish (tr)
Program sayacı
29.6974
2English (en)
Program counter
26.1434
3Lithuanian (lt)
Programos skaitiklis
18.5377
4German (de)
Befehlszähler
17.943
5Japanese (ja)
プログラムカウンタ
17.8117
6Chinese (zh)
程式計數器
17.7527
7Catalan (ca)
Comptador de programa
16.2347
8Ukrainian (uk)
Лічильник команд
12.4931
9Korean (ko)
프로그램 카운터
11.3689
10Hungarian (hu)
Programszámláló
8.9806
More...

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
1 606 320
2Spanish (es)
Contador de programa
357 418
3Chinese (zh)
程式計數器
153 388
4German (de)
Befehlszähler
151 961
5Italian (it)
Program counter
140 957
6Russian (ru)
Счётчик команд
98 372
7French (fr)
Compteur ordinal
84 660
8Korean (ko)
프로그램 카운터
74 341
9Portuguese (pt)
Contador de programa
59 221
10Czech (cs)
Čítač instrukcí
22 044
More...

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

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Program counter" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Program counter
1 682
2Chinese (zh)
程式計數器
254
3Italian (it)
Program counter
146
4German (de)
Befehlszähler
127
5Russian (ru)
Счётчик команд
105
6Japanese (ja)
プログラムカウンタ
104
7Spanish (es)
Contador de programa
89
8French (fr)
Compteur ordinal
68
9Korean (ko)
프로그램 카운터
47
10Czech (cs)
Čítač instrukcí
23
More...

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
92
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
19
8Czech (cs)
Čítač instrukcí
15
9Ukrainian (uk)
Лічильник команд
13
10Persian (fa)
شمارنده برنامه
12
More...

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

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Program counter" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Turkish (tr)
Program sayacı
2
2Arabic (ar)
عداد البرنامج
1
3Hungarian (hu)
Programszámláló
1
4Catalan (ca)
Comptador de programa
0
5Czech (cs)
Čítač instrukcí
0
6Danish (da)
Instruktionstæller
0
7German (de)
Befehlszähler
0
8English (en)
Program counter
0
9Spanish (es)
Contador de programa
0
10Persian (fa)
شمارنده برنامه
0
More...

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
396
2Persian (fa)
شمارنده برنامه
171
3Russian (ru)
Счётчик команд
150
4Korean (ko)
프로그램 카운터
148
5Chinese (zh)
程式計數器
143
6French (fr)
Compteur ordinal
130
7Japanese (ja)
プログラムカウンタ
97
8Arabic (ar)
عداد البرنامج
62
9Spanish (es)
Contador de programa
61
10German (de)
Befehlszähler
55
More...

Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
English:
Global:
Popularity in June 2026:
English:
Global:
Popularity in all years:
English:
Global:
Authors in June 2026:
English:
Global:
Registered authors in all years:
English:
Global:
Citations:
English:
Global:

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
jaJapanese
プログラムカウンタ
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:
#84714
09.2014
Global:
#87550
10.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#3293
06.2002
Global:
#3993
06.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Program counter from Wikipedia articles about Instruction cycle, Brainfuck, Memory address, Central processing unit and Processor register. 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

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

News from 1 July 2026

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

About WikiRank

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information