URL shortening

Quality:

URL shortening - web technique. Article “URL shortening” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “URL shortening”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1476 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 417 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #921 in January 2024
• Global: #4027 in March 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1945 in January 2024
• Global: #186 in April 2015

There are 22 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	English (en) URL shortening		52.7305
2	Ukrainian (uk) Скорочення URL		45.1439
3	Finnish (fi) URL-lyhentäjä		43.3424
4	Russian (ru) Сокращение URL		32.0737
5	Catalan (ca) Escurçador d'adreces web		24.2383
6	Chinese (zh) 縮略網址服務		23.3414
7	Portuguese (pt) Encurtamento de URL		21.9851
8	German (de) Kurz-URL-Dienst		21.9346
9	French (fr) Réduction d'URL		19.4813
10	Japanese (ja) 短縮URL		19.2213

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) URL shortening		11 248 210
2	German (de) Kurz-URL-Dienst		749 829
3	Japanese (ja) 短縮URL		600 066
4	Portuguese (pt) Encurtamento de URL		268 210
5	Russian (ru) Сокращение URL		245 512
6	Chinese (zh) 縮略網址服務		152 617
7	French (fr) Réduction d'URL		147 775
8	Italian (it) Abbreviazione degli URL		122 650
9	Spanish (es) Acortador de URL		101 733
10	Arabic (ar) خدمة تقصير الروابط		58 574

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) URL shortening		11 238
2	Japanese (ja) 短縮URL		1 180
3	German (de) Kurz-URL-Dienst		971
4	Czech (cs) Zkracovač URL		838
5	Chinese (zh) 縮略網址服務		758
6	Spanish (es) Acortador de URL		289
7	French (fr) Réduction d'URL		278
8	Italian (it) Abbreviazione degli URL		217
9	Russian (ru) Сокращение URL		201
10	Simple English (simple) URL shortening		196

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) URL shortening		668
2	German (de) Kurz-URL-Dienst		120
3	French (fr) Réduction d'URL		94
4	Japanese (ja) 短縮URL		75
5	Russian (ru) Сокращение URL		61
6	Italian (it) Abbreviazione degli URL		59
7	Chinese (zh) 縮略網址服務		55
8	Spanish (es) Acortador de URL		53
9	Persian (fa) کوتاه‌کننده لینک		44
10	Czech (cs) Zkracovač URL		32

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) URL shortening		5
2	Spanish (es) Acortador de URL		4
3	Catalan (ca) Escurçador d'adreces web		1
4	Japanese (ja) 短縮URL		1
5	Arabic (ar) خدمة تقصير الروابط		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) URL qısaltma		0
7	Czech (cs) Zkracovač URL		0
8	German (de) Kurz-URL-Dienst		0
9	Persian (fa) کوتاه‌کننده لینک		0
10	Finnish (fi) URL-lyhentäjä		0

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

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