Wayback Machine

Quality:

Wayback Machine - digital archive founded by the Internet Archive. This website is the 85^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 80^th most popular website in English Wikipedia. Article “Wayback Machine” in English Wikipedia has 89.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 148 references and 19 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.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 80^th most popular in websites in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 85^th most popular in websites.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 5658^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 3547^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5155^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8912^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Wayback Machine” was edited by 13 authors in English Wikipedia (3547^th place) and written by 22 authors in all languages (8912^th place).

Since the creation of article “Wayback Machine”, its content was written by 755 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1519 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Wayback Machine is on the 80^th place in local ranking of websites in English Wikipedia and on the 85^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 677687 times in English Wikipedia (4^th place) and cited 4157016 times in all languages (12^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #214 in October 2024
• Global: #558 in October 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1201 in October 2024
• Global: #1562 in October 2024

There are 48 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	English (en) Wayback Machine		89.8838
2	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		73.0702
3	Ukrainian (uk) Wayback Machine		61.0792
4	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		58.7388
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Wayback Machine		47.8534
6	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		45.9085
7	Min Nan (zhminnan) Wayback Machine		40.2772
8	Italian (it) Wayback Machine		37.8075
9	Malay (ms) Wayback Machine		37.2719
10	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		36.8735

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		13 665 571
2	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		1 507 787
3	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		1 394 318
4	Turkish (tr) Wayback Machine		853 275
5	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		763 989
6	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		724 109
7	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		576 344
8	Ukrainian (uk) Wayback Machine		247 755
9	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		237 514
10	Portuguese (pt) Wayback Machine		197 630

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) Wayback Machine		87 150
2	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		13 691
3	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		8 159
4	Turkish (tr) Wayback Machine		5 070
5	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		3 870
6	Vietnamese (vi) Wayback Machine		3 128
7	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		2 965
8	Simple English (simple) Wayback Machine		2 330
9	Ukrainian (uk) Wayback Machine		1 974
10	Persian (fa) وی‌بک ماشین		1 973

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		755
2	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		60
3	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		55
4	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		53
5	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		52
6	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		51
7	French (fr) Wayback Machine		31
8	Portuguese (pt) Wayback Machine		31
9	Turkish (tr) Wayback Machine		30
10	Thai (th) เวย์แบ็กแมชชีน		29

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	English (en) Wayback Machine		13
2	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		2
3	Catalan (ca) Wayback Machine		1
4	Esperanto (eo) Wayback Machine		1
5	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		1
6	Basque (eu) Wayback Machine		1
7	Croatian (hr) Wayback Machine		1
8	Italian (it) Wayback Machine		1
9	Romanian (ro) Wayback Machine		1
10	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		0

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

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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