Spectre (security vulnerability)

Quality:

Spectre - security vulnerability in microprocessors performing branch prediction. Article "Spectre (security vulnerability)" in English Wikipedia has 65.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 143 references and 16 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 "Spectre (security vulnerability)" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Spectre (security vulnerability)", its content was written by 179 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 450 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 428 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1020 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #46 in January 2018
• Global: #45 in January 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1272 in January 2018
• Global: #1833 in January 2018

There are 21 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) Spectre (security vulnerability)		65.5969
2	Turkish (tr) Spectre (güvenlik açığı)		63.6967
3	Persian (fa) اسپکتر (آسیب‌پذیری امنیتی)		62.5091
4	German (de) Spectre (Sicherheitslücke)		61.9807
5	Chinese (zh) 幽灵漏洞		59.1752
6	Ukrainian (uk) Spectre (уразливість)		56.7392
7	Spanish (es) Spectre (vulnerabilidad)		51.3738
8	Japanese (ja) Spectre		44.1561
9	Korean (ko) 스펙터 (버그)		42.1828
10	Catalan (ca) Spectre (vulnerabilitat)		39.2857

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Spectre (security vulnerability)		1 346 514
2	German (de) Spectre (Sicherheitslücke)		180 478
3	Russian (ru) Spectre (уязвимость)		158 070
4	Japanese (ja) Spectre		123 162
5	Chinese (zh) 幽灵漏洞		65 461
6	Spanish (es) Spectre (vulnerabilidad)		54 090
7	French (fr) Spectre (vulnérabilité)		50 131
8	Italian (it) Spectre (vulnerabilità di sicurezza)		34 523
9	Korean (ko) 스펙터 (버그)		18 655
10	Turkish (tr) Spectre (güvenlik açığı)		5 801

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) Spectre (security vulnerability)		6 834
2	Japanese (ja) Spectre		645
3	German (de) Spectre (Sicherheitslücke)		405
4	Chinese (zh) 幽灵漏洞		334
5	Russian (ru) Spectre (уязвимость)		300
6	French (fr) Spectre (vulnérabilité)		200
7	Italian (it) Spectre (vulnerabilità di sicurezza)		128
8	Spanish (es) Spectre (vulnerabilidad)		85
9	Korean (ko) 스펙터 (버그)		78
10	Arabic (ar) سبيكتر		67

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Spectre (security vulnerability)		179
2	German (de) Spectre (Sicherheitslücke)		59
3	French (fr) Spectre (vulnérabilité)		29
4	Chinese (zh) 幽灵漏洞		24
5	Russian (ru) Spectre (уязвимость)		22
6	Japanese (ja) Spectre		20
7	Spanish (es) Spectre (vulnerabilidad)		19
8	Italian (it) Spectre (vulnerabilità di sicurezza)		18
9	Turkish (tr) Spectre (güvenlik açığı)		15
10	Ukrainian (uk) Spectre (уразливість)		14

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) Spectre (Sicherheitslücke)		1
2	English (en) Spectre (security vulnerability)		1
3	Japanese (ja) Spectre		1
4	Arabic (ar) سبيكتر		0
5	Catalan (ca) Spectre (vulnerabilitat)		0
6	Danish (da) Spectre (it-sikkerhedssårbarhed)		0
7	Spanish (es) Spectre (vulnerabilidad)		0
8	Persian (fa) اسپکتر (آسیب‌پذیری امنیتی)		0
9	Finnish (fi) Spectre (tietoturvahaavoittuvuus)		0
10	French (fr) Spectre (vulnérabilité)		0

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

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