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Data compression

Quality:

Data compression - process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. Article “Data compression” in Simple English Wikipedia has 7.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 7266th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Since the creation of article “Data compression”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7266th place) and edited by 2516 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 44 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 11421 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #52 in May 2004
  • Global: #67 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #406 in January 2009
  • Global: #4936 in January 2009

There are 47 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Data compression
80.9769
2Catalan (ca)
Compressió de dades
71.1324
3Korean (ko)
데이터 압축
68.083
4Spanish (es)
Compresión de datos
47.0433
5Latin (la)
Compressio datorum
44.6187
6German (de)
Datenkompression
41.9007
7Bulgarian (bg)
Компресиране на данни
26.9559
8Estonian (et)
Andmete pakkimine
26.2152
9Ukrainian (uk)
Стиснення даних
25.9466
10Arabic (ar)
ضغط بيانات
25.6922
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Data compression" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Data compression
8 769 167
2Japanese (ja)
データ圧縮
1 325 671
3German (de)
Datenkompression
1 182 535
4Spanish (es)
Compresión de datos
952 491
5French (fr)
Compression de données
808 078
6Russian (ru)
Сжатие данных
783 233
7Polish (pl)
Kompresja danych
766 729
8Italian (it)
Compressione dei dati
304 547
9Czech (cs)
Komprese dat
290 847
10Portuguese (pt)
Compressão de dados
240 834
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Data compression" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Data compression
10 632
2German (de)
Datenkompression
1 012
3Japanese (ja)
データ圧縮
725
4French (fr)
Compression de données
696
5Russian (ru)
Сжатие данных
615
6Spanish (es)
Compresión de datos
393
7Chinese (zh)
数据压缩
378
8Polish (pl)
Kompresja danych
251
9Italian (it)
Compressione dei dati
218
10Korean (ko)
데이터 압축
156
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Data compression" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Data compression
778
2German (de)
Datenkompression
308
3French (fr)
Compression de données
192
4Polish (pl)
Kompresja danych
101
5Japanese (ja)
データ圧縮
88
6Hebrew (he)
דחיסת נתונים
79
7Spanish (es)
Compresión de datos
76
8Italian (it)
Compressione dei dati
76
9Russian (ru)
Сжатие данных
76
10Dutch (nl)
Datacompressie
73
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Data compression" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Data compression
5
2German (de)
Datenkompression
2
3Arabic (ar)
ضغط بيانات
1
4Catalan (ca)
Compressió de dades
1
5Basque (eu)
Datu-konpresio
1
6Korean (ko)
데이터 압축
1
7Polish (pl)
Kompresja danych
1
8Ukrainian (uk)
Стиснення даних
1
9Azerbaijani (az)
Verilənlərin sıxlaşdırılması
0
10Bulgarian (bg)
Компресиране на данни
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Data compression" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Data compression
3 089
2Korean (ko)
데이터 압축
765
3French (fr)
Compression de données
705
4Japanese (ja)
データ圧縮
618
5German (de)
Datenkompression
608
6Chinese (zh)
数据压缩
551
7Polish (pl)
Kompresja danych
481
8Russian (ru)
Сжатие данных
446
9Italian (it)
Compressione dei dati
394
10Arabic (ar)
ضغط بيانات
378
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
ضغط بيانات
azAzerbaijani
Verilənlərin sıxlaşdırılması
bgBulgarian
Компресиране на данни
caCatalan
Compressió de dades
csCzech
Komprese dat
daDanish
Datakompression
deGerman
Datenkompression
elGreek
Συμπίεση δεδομένων
enEnglish
Data compression
eoEsperanto
Datumdensigo
esSpanish
Compresión de datos
etEstonian
Andmete pakkimine
euBasque
Datu-konpresio
faPersian
فشرده‌سازی داده‌ها
fiFinnish
Tiedonpakkaus
frFrench
Compression de données
heHebrew
דחיסת נתונים
hiHindi
आंकड़ा संपीडन
hrCroatian
Sažimanje podataka
huHungarian
Adattömörítés
hyArmenian
Տվյալների սեղմում (կոմպրեսիա)
idIndonesian
Kompresi data
itItalian
Compressione dei dati
jaJapanese
データ圧縮
kkKazakh
Мәліметтерді сығымдау
koKorean
데이터 압축
laLatin
Compressio datorum
ltLithuanian
Glaudinimas
msMalay
Mampatan data
nlDutch
Datacompressie
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Datakomprimering
noNorwegian
Datakompresjon
plPolish
Kompresja danych
ptPortuguese
Compressão de dados
roRomanian
Compresie de date
ruRussian
Сжатие данных
shSerbo-Croatian
Kompresija podataka
simpleSimple English
Data compression
skSlovak
Kompresia dát
srSerbian
Kompresija podataka
svSwedish
Datakompression
thThai
การบีบอัดข้อมูล
trTurkish
Veri sıkıştırma
ukUkrainian
Стиснення даних
urUrdu
معطیاتی دابیت
viVietnamese
Nén dữ liệu
zhChinese
数据压缩

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#406
01.2009
Global:
#4936
01.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#52
05.2004
Global:
#67
11.2001

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Data compression from Wikipedia articles about Lossless compression, ZIP, Compression, Information theory and Coding theory. Whereas reading the article about Data compression people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Lossless compression, Lossy compression, Redundancy, LZ77 and LZ78 and Huffman coding.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

News from 1 July 2026

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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