Wayback Machine

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 52^nd most popular website in Norwegian Wikipedia. Article “Wayback Machine” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 24.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 1519 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Wayback Machine is on the 52^nd place in local ranking of websites in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 85^th place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 90441 times in Norwegian Wikipedia (5^th place) and cited 4157016 times in all languages (12^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #13402 in November 2021
• Global: #558 in October 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #1093 in November 2018
• 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

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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		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

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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 2026

#	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

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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		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

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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 2026

#	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

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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		677 687
2	Ukrainian (uk) Wayback Machine		452 950
3	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		401 302
4	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		351 557
5	Serbian (sr) Wayback Machine		260 505
6	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		185 850
7	Turkish (tr) Wayback Machine		146 023
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Wayback Machine		144 605
9	Catalan (ca) Wayback Machine		144 596
10	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		108 797

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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: #1093 11.2018

Global: #1562 10.2024

Best Rank

Norwegian: #13402 11.2021

Global: #558 10.2024

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