Traffic congestion

Quality:

Traffic congestion - condition on road networks that occurs as use increases, and is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queueing. Article “Traffic congestion” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Traffic congestion”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1831 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 30 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5823 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #106 in September 2018
• Global: #915 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1654 in August 2015
• Global: #25065 in August 2010

There are 34 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	German (de) Verkehrsstau		83.4794
2	Japanese (ja) 渋滞		73.3541
3	English (en) Traffic congestion		71.8406
4	Ukrainian (uk) Дорожній затор		57.951
5	French (fr) Embouteillage (route)		54.4351
6	Dutch (nl) File (verkeer)		51.134
7	Polish (pl) Korek drogowy		43.416
8	Malay (ms) Kesesakan lalu lintas		37.9945
9	Italian (it) Congestione stradale		31.698
10	Chinese (zh) 交通堵塞		31.3612

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Traffic congestion		3 986 302
2	Indonesian (id) Kemacetan		734 136
3	Japanese (ja) 渋滞		727 731
4	German (de) Verkehrsstau		529 099
5	Spanish (es) Congestión vehicular		517 512
6	Russian (ru) Дорожный затор		416 666
7	French (fr) Embouteillage (route)		350 054
8	Dutch (nl) File (verkeer)		342 248
9	Chinese (zh) 交通堵塞		266 464
10	Portuguese (pt) Congestionamento		221 878

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Traffic congestion		8 337
2	German (de) Verkehrsstau		1 908
3	Russian (ru) Дорожный затор		1 373
4	Japanese (ja) 渋滞		1 049
5	French (fr) Embouteillage (route)		900
6	Chinese (zh) 交通堵塞		629
7	Spanish (es) Congestión vehicular		515
8	Dutch (nl) File (verkeer)		433
9	Indonesian (id) Kemacetan		367
10	Portuguese (pt) Congestionamento		245

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Traffic congestion		510
2	German (de) Verkehrsstau		194
3	Dutch (nl) File (verkeer)		150
4	Japanese (ja) 渋滞		149
5	Russian (ru) Дорожный затор		115
6	French (fr) Embouteillage (route)		112
7	Spanish (es) Congestión vehicular		64
8	Chinese (zh) 交通堵塞		54
9	Hebrew (he) עומס תנועה		52
10	Vietnamese (vi) Tắc đường		42

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	English (en) Traffic congestion		6
2	Spanish (es) Congestión vehicular		2
3	Persian (fa) راه‌بندان		1
4	Finnish (fi) Liikenneruuhka		1
5	Indonesian (id) Kemacetan		1
6	Arabic (ar) تكدس مروري		0
7	Belarusian (be) Дарожны затор		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Задръстване		0
9	Catalan (ca) Embotellament		0
10	Czech (cs) Dopravní zácpa		0

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

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