Data compression

Quality:

Data compression - process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. Article "Data compression" in Simple English Wikipedia has 8.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Data compression", its content was written by 29 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6828^th place) and edited by 2473 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 43 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 11045 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #52 in May 2004
• Global: #66 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #408 in January 2009
• Global: #4959 in January 2009

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, 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) Data compression		82.4468
2	Catalan (ca) Compressió de dades		71.0576
3	Spanish (es) Compresión de datos		48.0969
4	Latin (la) Compressio datorum		44.2857
5	German (de) Datenkompression		37.3897
6	Bulgarian (bg) Компресиране на данни		28.6783
7	Estonian (et) Andmete pakkimine		26.959
8	Arabic (ar) ضغط بيانات		25.8147
9	Croatian (hr) Sažimanje podataka		24.9066
10	French (fr) Compression de données		24.8304

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Data compression		8 636 837
2	Japanese (ja) データ圧縮		1 311 704
3	German (de) Datenkompression		1 168 871
4	Spanish (es) Compresión de datos		942 431
5	French (fr) Compression de données		795 113
6	Polish (pl) Kompresja danych		761 820
7	Russian (ru) Сжатие данных		733 828
8	Italian (it) Compressione dei dati		301 211
9	Czech (cs) Komprese dat		287 371
10	Portuguese (pt) Compressão de dados		237 868

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) Data compression		20 829
2	German (de) Datenkompression		1 379
3	Japanese (ja) データ圧縮		1 300
4	Russian (ru) Сжатие данных		1 080
5	French (fr) Compression de données		870
6	Chinese (zh) 数据压缩		615
7	Simple English (simple) Data compression		597
8	Spanish (es) Compresión de datos		531
9	Italian (it) Compressione dei dati		333
10	Polish (pl) Kompresja danych		307

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Data compression		764
2	German (de) Datenkompression		303
3	French (fr) Compression de données		190
4	Polish (pl) Kompresja danych		99
5	Japanese (ja) データ圧縮		86
6	Hebrew (he) דחיסת נתונים		79
7	Italian (it) Compressione dei dati		76
8	Spanish (es) Compresión de datos		75
9	Russian (ru) Сжатие данных		75
10	Dutch (nl) Datacompressie		73

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	Croatian (hr) Sažimanje podataka		2
2	Greek (el) Συμπίεση δεδομένων		1
3	Basque (eu) Datu-konpresio		1
4	French (fr) Compression de données		1
5	Arabic (ar) ضغط بيانات		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Verilənlərin sıxlaşdırılması		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Компресиране на данни		0
8	Catalan (ca) Compressió de dades		0
9	Czech (cs) Komprese dat		0
10	Danish (da) Datakompression		0

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

On 12 August 2025 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Cristiano Ronaldo, Wednesday, Georgina Rodríguez, ChatGPT, Weapons, Jenna Ortega, deaths in 2025, Taylor Swift, Miguel Uribe Turbay, 2025–26 UEFA Champions League.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Free Republic of Verdis, SOLID (object-oriented design), Wikimedia Foundation, Black, XXXTentacion, List of U.S. states and territories by time zone, Youmna Khoury, List of U.S. states, List of European countries, List of people who have walked on the Moon.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information