Signal (software)

Quality:

Signal - privacy-focused encrypted messaging app. This website is the 136^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 158^th most popular website in English Wikipedia and the 77^th most popular software in English Wikipedia. Article “Signal (software)” in English Wikipedia has 81.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 367 references and 24 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.29 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 158^th most popular in websites in English Wikipedia.

The 77^th most popular in software in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 136^th most popular in websites.

The 71^st most popular in software.

In June 2026 the article “Signal (software)” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Signal (software)”, its content was written by 351 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1204 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Signal is on the 158^th place in local ranking of websites in English Wikipedia and on the 136^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

Signal is on the 77^th place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 71^st place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 434 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2191 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #232 in January 2021
• Global: #76 in January 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #47 in January 2021
• Global: #39 in January 2021

There are 39 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	Chinese (zh) Signal (軟件)		90
2	Turkish (tr) Signal (yazılım)		86.8881
3	German (de) Signal (Messenger)		82.6667
4	English (en) Signal (software)		81.4286
5	French (fr) Signal (application)		62.1381
6	Dutch (nl) Signal (software)		59.683
7	Italian (it) Signal (software)		57.9436
8	Greek (el) Signal (λογισμικό)		50.6791
9	Basque (eu) Signal (softwarea)		49.2686
10	Tamil (ta) சிக்னல்		49.066

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Signal (software)		7 253 405
2	German (de) Signal (Messenger)		2 692 505
3	French (fr) Signal (application)		1 041 730
4	Russian (ru) Signal		806 902
5	Spanish (es) Signal (software)		376 578
6	Japanese (ja) Signal (メッセージングアプリ)		336 865
7	Chinese (zh) Signal (軟件)		286 372
8	Italian (it) Signal (software)		282 672
9	Dutch (nl) Signal (software)		236 659
10	Polish (pl) Signal (komunikator internetowy)		209 625

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) Signal (software)		30 821
2	German (de) Signal (Messenger)		10 773
3	French (fr) Signal (application)		7 458
4	Chinese (zh) Signal (軟件)		3 727
5	Russian (ru) Signal		3 392
6	Japanese (ja) Signal (メッセージングアプリ)		2 440
7	Dutch (nl) Signal (software)		1 249
8	Polish (pl) Signal (komunikator internetowy)		1 171
9	Spanish (es) Signal (software)		1 087
10	Italian (it) Signal (software)		895

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Signal (software)		351
2	German (de) Signal (Messenger)		255
3	French (fr) Signal (application)		111
4	Persian (fa) سیگنال (نرم‌افزار)		43
5	Italian (it) Signal (software)		43
6	Spanish (es) Signal (software)		35
7	Chinese (zh) Signal (軟件)		35
8	Russian (ru) Signal		34
9	Japanese (ja) Signal (メッセージングアプリ)		29
10	Dutch (nl) Signal (software)		28

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	German (de) Signal (Messenger)		5
2	English (en) Signal (software)		4
3	Arabic (ar) سيجنال		1
4	Danish (da) Signal (Messenger)		1
5	Spanish (es) Signal (software)		1
6	Basque (eu) Signal (softwarea)		1
7	Finnish (fi) Signal		1
8	Hebrew (he) סיגנל (יישומון)		1
9	Dutch (nl) Signal (software)		1
10	Serbian (sr) Signal (софтвер)		1

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

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