Wirth's law

Wirth's law - computing adage popularized by Niklaus Wirth that that software gets slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. Article “Wirth's law” in English Wikipedia has 31.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 15 references and 5 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 “Wirth's law”, its content was written by 84 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 298 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 57 times in English Wikipedia and cited 112 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #47614 in March 2015
• Global: #31598 in October 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #48166 in March 2015
• Global: #85793 in March 2015

There are 16 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) Wirth's law		31.3558
2	Catalan (ca) Llei de Wirth		29.4903
3	German (de) Wirthsches Gesetz		25.8999
4	Hungarian (hu) Wirth-törvény		24.4187
5	Finnish (fi) Wirthin laki		24.3376
6	Russian (ru) Закон Вирта		24.164
7	Italian (it) Legge di Wirth		22.5969
8	Chinese (zh) 維爾特定律		22.4294
9	French (fr) Loi de Wirth		20.1276
10	Japanese (ja) ヴィルトの法則		17.1422

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Wirth's law" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wirth's law		676 404
2	Russian (ru) Закон Вирта		100 736
3	German (de) Wirthsches Gesetz		87 049
4	French (fr) Loi de Wirth		86 520
5	Japanese (ja) ヴィルトの法則		44 748
6	Spanish (es) Ley de Wirth		30 606
7	Dutch (nl) Wet van Wirth		22 767
8	Polish (pl) Prawo Wirtha		16 114
9	Chinese (zh) 維爾特定律		13 500
10	Hebrew (he) חוק וירת		9 349

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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 "Wirth's law" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wirth's law		3 967
2	French (fr) Loi de Wirth		306
3	German (de) Wirthsches Gesetz		269
4	Russian (ru) Закон Вирта		149
5	Japanese (ja) ヴィルトの法則		136
6	Chinese (zh) 維爾特定律		63
7	Spanish (es) Ley de Wirth		46
8	Italian (it) Legge di Wirth		45
9	Finnish (fi) Wirthin laki		31
10	Portuguese (pt) Lei de Wirth		28

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

Language versions of the article "Wirth's law" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wirth's law		84
2	French (fr) Loi de Wirth		62
3	German (de) Wirthsches Gesetz		34
4	Dutch (nl) Wet van Wirth		20
5	Hebrew (he) חוק וירת		18
6	Polish (pl) Prawo Wirtha		14
7	Spanish (es) Ley de Wirth		12
8	Italian (it) Legge di Wirth		12
9	Japanese (ja) ヴィルトの法則		10
10	Russian (ru) Закон Вирта		10

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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 "Wirth's law" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Loi de Wirth		1
2	Arabic (ar) قانون ويرث		0
3	Catalan (ca) Llei de Wirth		0
4	German (de) Wirthsches Gesetz		0
5	English (en) Wirth's law		0
6	Spanish (es) Ley de Wirth		0
7	Finnish (fi) Wirthin laki		0
8	Hebrew (he) חוק וירת		0
9	Hungarian (hu) Wirth-törvény		0
10	Italian (it) Legge di Wirth		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 "Wirth's law" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Wirth's law		57
2	German (de) Wirthsches Gesetz		7
3	French (fr) Loi de Wirth		7
4	Russian (ru) Закон Вирта		7
5	Hebrew (he) חוק וירת		6
6	Spanish (es) Ley de Wirth		5
7	Chinese (zh) 維爾特定律		5
8	Italian (it) Legge di Wirth		4
9	Japanese (ja) ヴィルトの法則		4
10	Catalan (ca) Llei de Wirth		3

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قانون ويرث
ca	Catalan Llei de Wirth
de	German Wirthsches Gesetz
en	English Wirth's law
es	Spanish Ley de Wirth
fi	Finnish Wirthin laki
fr	French Loi de Wirth
he	Hebrew חוק וירת
hu	Hungarian Wirth-törvény
it	Italian Legge di Wirth
ja	Japanese ヴィルトの法則
nl	Dutch Wet van Wirth
pl	Polish Prawo Wirtha
pt	Portuguese Lei de Wirth
ru	Russian Закон Вирта
zh	Chinese 維爾特定律

Best Rank

English: #48166 03.2015

Global: #85793 03.2015

Best Rank

English: #47614 03.2015

Global: #31598 10.2021

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