Hardness

Quality:

Hardness - measure of how resistant solid matter is to various kinds of permanent shape change when a force is applied. Article “Hardness” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Hardness”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1651 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 23 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16517 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #853 in May 2022
• Global: #957 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1053 in September 2023
• Global: #6160 in January 2015

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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Härte		66.7055
2	Chinese (zh) 材料硬度		66.1959
3	English (en) Hardness		45.8147
4	French (fr) Dureté (matériau)		37.8808
5	Turkish (tr) Sertlik		35.0508
6	Indonesian (id) Kekerasan (fisika)		33.3152
7	Norwegian (no) Hardhet (materialvitenskap)		33.1637
8	Croatian (hr) Tvrdoća		32.8033
9	Persian (fa) سختی		32.7625
10	Catalan (ca) Duresa		32.3284

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Härte		5 658 502
2	Spanish (es) Dureza		4 981 295
3	English (en) Hardness		4 219 798
4	Japanese (ja) 硬さ		1 598 991
5	French (fr) Dureté (matériau)		1 221 815
6	Russian (ru) Твёрдость		1 117 438
7	Portuguese (pt) Dureza		912 235
8	Italian (it) Durezza		761 024
9	Polish (pl) Twardość		462 086
10	Arabic (ar) صلادة		195 090

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Härte		4 807
2	English (en) Hardness		3 728
3	Japanese (ja) 硬さ		905
4	Russian (ru) Твёрдость		824
5	French (fr) Dureté (matériau)		744
6	Spanish (es) Dureza		543
7	Chinese (zh) 材料硬度		531
8	Persian (fa) سختی		354
9	Italian (it) Durezza		254
10	Dutch (nl) Hardheid (materiaalkunde)		231

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Härte		352
2	English (en) Hardness		278
3	Spanish (es) Dureza		126
4	French (fr) Dureté (matériau)		96
5	Italian (it) Durezza		74
6	Russian (ru) Твёрдость		72
7	Dutch (nl) Hardheid (materiaalkunde)		64
8	Polish (pl) Twardość		40
9	Portuguese (pt) Dureza		37
10	Japanese (ja) 硬さ		36

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Härte		2
2	Catalan (ca) Duresa		1
3	Basque (eu) Gogortasun		1
4	Arabic (ar) صلادة		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Bərklik		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Твърдост		0
7	Danish (da) Hårdhed		0
8	Greek (el) Σκληρότητα υλικών		0
9	English (en) Hardness		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Dureco		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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