Embouteillage (route)

Traffic congestion - condition on road networks that occurs as use increases, and is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queueing. Article “Embouteillage (route)” in French Wikipedia has 54.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 50 references and 26 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.05 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Embouteillage (route)”, its content was written by 112 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 1831 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 240 times in French Wikipedia and cited 5823 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #2269 in September 2015
• Global: #915 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #26947 in March 2014
• Global: #25065 in August 2010

There are 34 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	German (de) Verkehrsstau		83.4794
2	Japanese (ja) 渋滞		73.3541
3	English (en) Traffic congestion		71.8406
4	Ukrainian (uk) Дорожній затор		57.951
5	French (fr) Embouteillage (route)		54.4351
6	Dutch (nl) File (verkeer)		51.134
7	Polish (pl) Korek drogowy		43.416
8	Malay (ms) Kesesakan lalu lintas		37.9945
9	Italian (it) Congestione stradale		31.698
10	Chinese (zh) 交通堵塞		31.3612

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Embouteillage (route)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Traffic congestion		3 986 302
2	Indonesian (id) Kemacetan		734 136
3	Japanese (ja) 渋滞		727 731
4	German (de) Verkehrsstau		529 099
5	Spanish (es) Congestión vehicular		517 512
6	Russian (ru) Дорожный затор		416 666
7	French (fr) Embouteillage (route)		350 054
8	Dutch (nl) File (verkeer)		342 248
9	Chinese (zh) 交通堵塞		266 464
10	Portuguese (pt) Congestionamento		221 878

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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 "Embouteillage (route)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Traffic congestion		8 337
2	German (de) Verkehrsstau		1 908
3	Russian (ru) Дорожный затор		1 373
4	Japanese (ja) 渋滞		1 049
5	French (fr) Embouteillage (route)		900
6	Chinese (zh) 交通堵塞		629
7	Spanish (es) Congestión vehicular		515
8	Dutch (nl) File (verkeer)		433
9	Indonesian (id) Kemacetan		367
10	Portuguese (pt) Congestionamento		245

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Traffic congestion		510
2	German (de) Verkehrsstau		194
3	Dutch (nl) File (verkeer)		150
4	Japanese (ja) 渋滞		149
5	Russian (ru) Дорожный затор		115
6	French (fr) Embouteillage (route)		112
7	Spanish (es) Congestión vehicular		64
8	Chinese (zh) 交通堵塞		54
9	Hebrew (he) עומס תנועה		52
10	Vietnamese (vi) Tắc đường		42

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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 "Embouteillage (route)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Traffic congestion		6
2	Spanish (es) Congestión vehicular		2
3	Persian (fa) راه‌بندان		1
4	Finnish (fi) Liikenneruuhka		1
5	Indonesian (id) Kemacetan		1
6	Arabic (ar) تكدس مروري		0
7	Belarusian (be) Дарожны затор		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Задръстване		0
9	Catalan (ca) Embotellament		0
10	Czech (cs) Dopravní zácpa		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 "Embouteillage (route)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 渋滞		1 767
2	English (en) Traffic congestion		1 022
3	Chinese (zh) 交通堵塞		539
4	German (de) Verkehrsstau		328
5	French (fr) Embouteillage (route)		240
6	Spanish (es) Congestión vehicular		225
7	Dutch (nl) File (verkeer)		224
8	Russian (ru) Дорожный затор		193
9	Hebrew (he) עומס תנועה		192
10	Arabic (ar) تكدس مروري		155

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تكدس مروري
be	Belarusian Дарожны затор
bg	Bulgarian Задръстване
ca	Catalan Embotellament
cs	Czech Dopravní zácpa
de	German Verkehrsstau
el	Greek Κυκλοφοριακή συμφόρηση
en	English Traffic congestion
eo	Esperanto Trafikŝtopiĝo
es	Spanish Congestión vehicular
et	Estonian Liiklusummik
eu	Basque Auto-ilara
fa	Persian راه‌بندان
fi	Finnish Liikenneruuhka
fr	French Embouteillage (route)
he	Hebrew עומס תנועה
id	Indonesian Kemacetan
it	Italian Congestione stradale
ja	Japanese 渋滞
ko	Korean 교통 체증
ms	Malay Kesesakan lalu lintas
nl	Dutch File (verkeer)
no	Norwegian Bilkø
pl	Polish Korek drogowy
pt	Portuguese Congestionamento
ru	Russian Дорожный затор
simple	Simple English Traffic congestion
sk	Slovak Dopravná zápcha
sv	Swedish Bilkö
th	Thai การจราจรติดขัด
tr	Turkish Trafik sıkışıklığı
uk	Ukrainian Дорожній затор
vi	Vietnamese Tắc đường
zh	Chinese 交通堵塞

Best Rank

French: #26947 03.2014

Global: #25065 08.2010

Best Rank

French: #2269 09.2015

Global: #915 06.2003

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