Wayback Machine

Quality:

Wayback Machine - digital archive founded by the Internet Archive. This website is the 91^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of websites and the 128^th most popular website in Russian Wikipedia. Article “Wayback Machine” in Russian Wikipedia has 57.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 97 references and 12 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Russian Wikipedia:

The 128^th most popular in websites in Russian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 91^st most popular in websites.

Achievements in the last month:

Russian Wikipedia:

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The 1096^th most popular in Russian Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4701^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 8030^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Wayback Machine”, its content was written by 46 registered users of Russian Wikipedia and edited by 1382 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Wayback Machine is on the 128^th place in local ranking of websites in Russian Wikipedia and on the 91^st place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 353563 times in Russian Wikipedia (3^rd place) and cited 3722725 times in all languages (15^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Russian): #795 in January 2022
• Global: #553 in October 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Russian): #948 in April 2025
• Global: #1473 in October 2024

There are 48 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) Wayback Machine		80.9714
2	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		77.0738
3	Ukrainian (uk) Wayback Machine		63.4481
4	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		57.4115
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Wayback Machine		47.8534
6	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		44.004
7	Min Nan (zhminnan) Wayback Machine		40.2772
8	Italian (it) Wayback Machine		38.0064
9	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		37.4261
10	Malay (ms) Wayback Machine		37.1058

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		12 465 106
2	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		1 435 615
3	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		1 195 609
4	Turkish (tr) Wayback Machine		767 933
5	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		683 614
6	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		678 715
7	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		512 157
8	Ukrainian (uk) Wayback Machine		220 581
9	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		211 373
10	Portuguese (pt) Wayback Machine		186 382

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) Wayback Machine		85 100
2	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		32 675
3	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		8 398
4	Turkish (tr) Wayback Machine		8 062
5	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		6 320
6	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		6 275
7	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		4 828
8	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		4 062
9	Ukrainian (uk) Wayback Machine		2 541
10	Thai (th) เวย์แบ็กแมชชีน		1 912

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Wayback Machine		679
2	Spanish (es) Wayback Machine		56
3	Japanese (ja) ウェイバックマシン		50
4	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		48
5	Chinese (zh) 网站时光机		47
6	Russian (ru) Wayback Machine		46
7	Portuguese (pt) Wayback Machine		28
8	Turkish (tr) Wayback Machine		28
9	Persian (fa) وی‌بک ماشین		26
10	French (fr) Wayback Machine		26

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) Wayback Machine		11
2	Simple English (simple) Wayback Machine		4
3	Thai (th) เวย์แบ็กแมชชีน		3
4	Arabic (ar) واي باك مشين		1
5	Greek (el) Wayback Machine		1
6	Basque (eu) Wayback Machine		1
7	Persian (fa) وی‌بک ماشین		1
8	Indonesian (id) Wayback Machine		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Wayback Machine		0
10	Belarusian (be) Wayback Machine		0

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

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