Web beacon

Web beacon - method using server metrics for a served unobtrusive file to ascertain whether a page has been loaded and by whom. Article “Web beacon” in English Wikipedia has 28 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.47 points.

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

In June 2025 the article “Web beacon” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Web beacon”, its content was written by 235 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 495 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 112 times in English Wikipedia and cited 411 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3782 in August 2017
• Global: #3212 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #47098 in March 2015
• Global: #60482 in March 2015

There are 18 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	Polish (pl) Piksel śledzący		29.5654
2	English (en) Web beacon		27.9837
3	German (de) Zählpixel		24.4085
4	Korean (ko) 웹 버그		23.5158
5	Chinese (zh) 网络信标		22.9918
6	Spanish (es) Web bug		21.2353
7	Czech (cs) Sledovací pixel		20.0529
8	Dutch (nl) Webbaken		18.2067
9	Portuguese (pt) Web beacon		17.8706
10	Italian (it) Web beacon		17.3946

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Web beacon" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Web beacon		2 243 843
2	Spanish (es) Web bug		415 276
3	German (de) Zählpixel		395 345
4	Japanese (ja) ウェブビーコン		221 597
5	French (fr) Pixel espion		115 300
6	Chinese (zh) 网络信标		58 884
7	Dutch (nl) Webbaken		22 002
8	Finnish (fi) Web bug		21 517
9	Korean (ko) 웹 버그		13 965
10	Hebrew (he) Web bug		13 533

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Web beacon" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Web beacon		6 171
2	Spanish (es) Web bug		1 114
3	German (de) Zählpixel		624
4	French (fr) Pixel espion		249
5	Japanese (ja) ウェブビーコン		159
6	Chinese (zh) 网络信标		80
7	Italian (it) Web beacon		72
8	Polish (pl) Piksel śledzący		63
9	Arabic (ar) إشارات الويب		45
10	Portuguese (pt) Web beacon		45

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

Language versions of the article "Web beacon" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Web beacon		235
2	German (de) Zählpixel		90
3	Spanish (es) Web bug		50
4	French (fr) Pixel espion		27
5	Japanese (ja) ウェブビーコン		19
6	Chinese (zh) 网络信标		13
7	Italian (it) Web beacon		12
8	Dutch (nl) Webbaken		12
9	Polish (pl) Piksel śledzący		7
10	Finnish (fi) Web bug		6

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

Language versions of the article "Web beacon" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Web beacon		2
2	Czech (cs) Sledovací pixel		1
3	Arabic (ar) إشارات الويب		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Пикселен маркер		0
5	Catalan (ca) Web bug		0
6	German (de) Zählpixel		0
7	Spanish (es) Web bug		0
8	Finnish (fi) Web bug		0
9	French (fr) Pixel espion		0
10	Hebrew (he) Web bug		0

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

Language versions of the article "Web beacon" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) ウェブビーコン		179
2	English (en) Web beacon		112
3	German (de) Zählpixel		45
4	Spanish (es) Web bug		15
5	French (fr) Pixel espion		15
6	Indonesian (id) Bekon web		11
7	Chinese (zh) 网络信标		9
8	Korean (ko) 웹 버그		5
9	Catalan (ca) Web bug		4
10	Portuguese (pt) Web beacon		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic إشارات الويب
bg	Bulgarian Пикселен маркер
ca	Catalan Web bug
cs	Czech Sledovací pixel
de	German Zählpixel
en	English Web beacon
es	Spanish Web bug
fi	Finnish Web bug
fr	French Pixel espion
he	Hebrew Web bug
id	Indonesian Bekon web
it	Italian Web beacon
ja	Japanese ウェブビーコン
ko	Korean 웹 버그
nl	Dutch Webbaken
pl	Polish Piksel śledzący
pt	Portuguese Web beacon
zh	Chinese 网络信标

Best Rank

English: #47098 03.2015

Global: #60482 03.2015

Best Rank

English: #3782 08.2017

Global: #3212 10.2003

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