SMPTE color bars

SMPTE color bars - Color benchmark for the NTSC video format. Article “SMPTE color bars” in English Wikipedia has 53.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 38 references and 7 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “SMPTE color bars”, its content was written by 117 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 227 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 170 times in English Wikipedia and cited 349 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4541 in January 2004
• Global: #15044 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #48478 in September 2012
• Global: #62163 in October 2023

There are 10 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) SMPTE color bars		53.2175
2	Chinese (zh) 彩条信号		35.0722
3	Catalan (ca) Barres de color		30.0424
4	Spanish (es) Barras de color		24.6257
5	Portuguese (pt) Barras de cor		23.9815
6	Korean (ko) SMPTE 컬러바		16.6389
7	French (fr) Barres de couleur SMPTE		14.9807
8	Japanese (ja) カラーバー		13.1018
9	Italian (it) Barre colore		12.967
10	Turkish (tr) Colorbar sinyali		4.3519

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

The most popular language versions of the article "SMPTE color bars" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) SMPTE color bars		1 850 489
2	Japanese (ja) カラーバー		369 582
3	Spanish (es) Barras de color		318 220
4	Italian (it) Barre colore		44 280
5	Portuguese (pt) Barras de cor		42 201
6	Chinese (zh) 彩条信号		17 781
7	French (fr) Barres de couleur SMPTE		13 950
8	Turkish (tr) Colorbar sinyali		6 896
9	Korean (ko) SMPTE 컬러바		4 613
10	Catalan (ca) Barres de color		1 416

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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 "SMPTE color bars" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) SMPTE color bars		9 912
2	Japanese (ja) カラーバー		1 450
3	Spanish (es) Barras de color		315
4	French (fr) Barres de couleur SMPTE		265
5	Chinese (zh) 彩条信号		154
6	Korean (ko) SMPTE 컬러바		148
7	Turkish (tr) Colorbar sinyali		86
8	Portuguese (pt) Barras de cor		75
9	Italian (it) Barre colore		68
10	Catalan (ca) Barres de color		9

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) SMPTE color bars		117
2	Japanese (ja) カラーバー		33
3	Italian (it) Barre colore		24
4	Spanish (es) Barras de color		21
5	Portuguese (pt) Barras de cor		9
6	Catalan (ca) Barres de color		6
7	Turkish (tr) Colorbar sinyali		6
8	French (fr) Barres de couleur SMPTE		5
9	Korean (ko) SMPTE 컬러바		3
10	Chinese (zh) 彩条信号		3

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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 "SMPTE color bars" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Korean (ko) SMPTE 컬러바		1
2	Catalan (ca) Barres de color		0
3	English (en) SMPTE color bars		0
4	Spanish (es) Barras de color		0
5	French (fr) Barres de couleur SMPTE		0
6	Italian (it) Barre colore		0
7	Japanese (ja) カラーバー		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Barras de cor		0
9	Turkish (tr) Colorbar sinyali		0
10	Chinese (zh) 彩条信号		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 "SMPTE color bars" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) SMPTE color bars		170
2	Japanese (ja) カラーバー		87
3	Chinese (zh) 彩条信号		23
4	Spanish (es) Barras de color		21
5	Korean (ko) SMPTE 컬러바		18
6	Portuguese (pt) Barras de cor		11
7	Italian (it) Barre colore		10
8	French (fr) Barres de couleur SMPTE		5
9	Catalan (ca) Barres de color		3
10	Turkish (tr) Colorbar sinyali		1

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Barres de color
en	English SMPTE color bars
es	Spanish Barras de color
fr	French Barres de couleur SMPTE
it	Italian Barre colore
ja	Japanese カラーバー
ko	Korean SMPTE 컬러바
pt	Portuguese Barras de cor
tr	Turkish Colorbar sinyali
zh	Chinese 彩条信号

Best Rank

English: #48478 09.2012

Global: #62163 10.2023

Best Rank

English: #4541 01.2004

Global: #15044 01.2004

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