Wayback Machine

Wayback Machine - digital archive founded by the Internet Archive. This website is the 91^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 51^st most popular website in Norwegian Wikipedia. Article “Wayback Machine” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 24.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Norwegian) language version.

Since the creation of article “Wayback Machine”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 1382 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Wayback Machine is on the 51^st place in local ranking of websites in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 91^st place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 86646 times in Norwegian Wikipedia (5^th place) and cited 3722725 times in all languages (15^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #13420 in November 2021
• Global: #553 in October 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #1089 in November 2018
• Global: #1473 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, 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) Wayback Machine		80.9714
2	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		77.0738
3	Ukrainian (uk) Wayback Machine		63.4481
4	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		57.4115
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Wayback Machine		47.8534
6	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		44.004
7	Min Nan (zhminnan) Wayback Machine		40.2772
8	Italian (it) Wayback Machine		38.0064
9	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		37.4261
10	Malay (ms) Wayback Machine		37.1058

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Wayback Machine" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		12 465 106
2	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		1 435 615
3	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		1 195 609
4	Turkish (tr) Wayback Machine		767 933
5	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		683 614
6	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		678 715
7	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		512 157
8	Ukrainian (uk) Wayback Machine		220 581
9	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		211 373
10	Portuguese (pt) Wayback Machine		186 382

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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 "Wayback Machine" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		85 100
2	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		32 675
3	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		8 398
4	Turkish (tr) Wayback Machine		8 062
5	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		6 320
6	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		6 275
7	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		4 828
8	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		4 062
9	Ukrainian (uk) Wayback Machine		2 541
10	Thai (th) เวย์แบ็กแมชชีน		1 912

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		679
2	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		56
3	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		50
4	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		48
5	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		47
6	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		46
7	Portuguese (pt) Wayback Machine		28
8	Turkish (tr) Wayback Machine		28
9	Persian (fa) وی‌بک ماشین		26
10	French (fr) Wayback Machine		26

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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 "Wayback Machine" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		11
2	Simple English (simple) Wayback Machine		4
3	Thai (th) เวย์แบ็กแมชชีน		3
4	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		1
5	Greek (el) Wayback Machine		1
6	Basque (eu) Wayback Machine		1
7	Persian (fa) وی‌بک ماشین		1
8	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Wayback Machine		0
10	Belarusian (be) Wayback Machine		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 "Wayback Machine" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		566 900
2	Ukrainian (uk) Wayback Machine		451 918
3	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		363 764
4	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		353 563
5	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		180 608
6	Turkish (tr) Wayback Machine		144 373
7	Catalan (ca) Wayback Machine		140 195
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Wayback Machine		129 076
9	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		107 502
10	Serbian (sr) Wayback Machine		101 241

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic واي باك مشين
az	Azerbaijani Wayback Machine
be	Belarusian Wayback Machine
bg	Bulgarian Уейбек Машин
ca	Catalan Wayback Machine
da	Danish Wayback Machine
el	Greek Wayback Machine
en	English Wayback Machine
eo	Esperanto Wayback Machine
es	Spanish Wayback Machine
et	Estonian Wayback Machine
eu	Basque Wayback Machine
fa	Persian وی‌بک ماشین
fi	Finnish Wayback Machine
fr	French Wayback Machine
gl	Galician Wayback Machine
he	Hebrew וייבאק מאשין
hi	Hindi वेबैक मशीन
hr	Croatian Wayback Machine
hu	Hungarian Wayback Machine
hy	Armenian Wayback Machine
id	Indonesian Wayback Machine
it	Italian Wayback Machine
ja	Japanese ウェイバックマシン
ka	Georgian Wayback Machine
ko	Korean 웨이백 머신
lt	Lithuanian Wayback Machine
ms	Malay Wayback Machine
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wayback Machine
no	Norwegian Wayback Machine
pl	Polish Wayback Machine
pt	Portuguese Wayback Machine
ro	Romanian Wayback Machine
ru	Russian Wayback Machine
sh	Serbo-Croatian Wayback Machine
simple	Simple English Wayback Machine
sk	Slovak Wayback Machine
sl	Slovenian Wayback Machine
sr	Serbian Wayback Machine
ta	Tamil வந்தவழி இயந்திரம்
th	Thai เวย์แบ็กแมชชีน
tr	Turkish Wayback Machine
uk	Ukrainian Wayback Machine
ur	Urdu وے بیک مشین
uz	Uzbek Wayback Machine
vi	Vietnamese Wayback Machine
zh	Chinese 网站时光机
zhminnan	Min Nan Wayback Machine

Best Rank

Norwegian: #1089 11.2018

Global: #1473 10.2024

Best Rank

Norwegian: #13420 11.2021

Global: #553 10.2024

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