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Dead link

Quality:

Link rot - phenomenon in which URLs gradually tend to cease functioning. Article “Dead link” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.02 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Dead link”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1048 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 436 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #2709 in September 2024
  • Global: #5105 in December 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #38012 in February 2025
  • Global: #12170 in October 2010

There are 27 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Russian (ru)
Вымирание ссылок
59.8725
2Hebrew (he)
קישור שבור
41.419
3Chinese (zh)
失效連結
35.9581
4English (en)
Link rot
34.0741
5Vietnamese (vi)
Liên kết hỏng
32.1281
6German (de)
Toter Link
32.0131
7Portuguese (pt)
Apodrecimento de links
30.977
8French (fr)
Lien mort
27.7801
9Arabic (ar)
رابط مكسور
26.0284
10Japanese (ja)
リンク切れ
24.2553
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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 "Dead link" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Link rot
2 074 665
2German (de)
Toter Link
1 406 751
3Japanese (ja)
リンク切れ
135 698
4Dutch (nl)
Linkrot
46 592
5Spanish (es)
Enlace roto
41 621
6French (fr)
Lien mort
33 242
7Polish (pl)
Martwy link
31 589
8Korean (ko)
깨진 링크
23 741
9Russian (ru)
Вымирание ссылок
19 494
10Swedish (sv)
Länkröta
14 349
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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 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Dead link" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Link rot
10 897
2German (de)
Toter Link
1 638
3Japanese (ja)
リンク切れ
288
4Russian (ru)
Вымирание ссылок
212
5Chinese (zh)
失效連結
181
6Dutch (nl)
Linkrot
130
7French (fr)
Lien mort
127
8Turkish (tr)
Bağlantı ölümü
102
9Spanish (es)
Enlace roto
74
10Korean (ko)
깨진 링크
66
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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 "Dead link" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Link rot
649
2German (de)
Toter Link
122
3Japanese (ja)
リンク切れ
32
4Dutch (nl)
Linkrot
28
5French (fr)
Lien mort
26
6Polish (pl)
Martwy link
21
7Spanish (es)
Enlace roto
20
8Swedish (sv)
Länkröta
16
9Danish (da)
Dødt link
14
10Finnish (fi)
Linkkimätä
14
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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 2025

Language versions of the article "Dead link" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Toter Link
1
2English (en)
Link rot
1
3Russian (ru)
Вымирание ссылок
1
4Arabic (ar)
رابط مكسور
0
5Danish (da)
Dødt link
0
6Spanish (es)
Enlace roto
0
7Estonian (et)
Lingikõdu
0
8Persian (fa)
پیوند مرده
0
9Finnish (fi)
Linkkimätä
0
10French (fr)
Lien mort
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 "Dead link" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Link rot
126
2Japanese (ja)
リンク切れ
89
3German (de)
Toter Link
42
4Persian (fa)
پیوند مرده
21
5Spanish (es)
Enlace roto
18
6French (fr)
Lien mort
17
7Korean (ko)
깨진 링크
16
8Chinese (zh)
失效連結
15
9Finnish (fi)
Linkkimätä
11
10Norwegian (no)
Lenkeråte
11
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Authors in June 2025:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
Simple English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
رابط مكسور
daDanish
Dødt link
deGerman
Toter Link
enEnglish
Link rot
esSpanish
Enlace roto
etEstonian
Lingikõdu
faPersian
پیوند مرده
fiFinnish
Linkkimätä
frFrench
Lien mort
heHebrew
קישור שבור
hiHindi
मृत कड़ियाँ
idIndonesian
Pranala mati
jaJapanese
リンク切れ
koKorean
깨진 링크
nlDutch
Linkrot
noNorwegian
Lenkeråte
plPolish
Martwy link
ptPortuguese
Apodrecimento de links
ruRussian
Вымирание ссылок
simpleSimple English
Dead link
svSwedish
Länkröta
thThai
ลิงก์เสีย
trTurkish
Bağlantı ölümü
ukUkrainian
Вимирання посилань
urUrdu
مردہ روابط
viVietnamese
Liên kết hỏng
zhChinese
失效連結

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#38012
02.2025
Global:
#12170
10.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#2709
09.2024
Global:
#5105
12.2018

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Link rot from Wikipedia articles about Dead Internet theory, HTTP 404, Enshittification, Non-fungible token and The Million Dollar Homepage. Whereas reading the article about Link rot people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Dead Internet theory, The Million Dollar Homepage, Dangling pointer, Software rot and Hyperlink.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

simple: Dead link

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