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 40^th most popular website in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Wayback Machine” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6717^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 40^th most popular in websites in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 91^st most popular in websites.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3897^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 527^th most editable in Simple English 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.

In June 2025 the article “Wayback Machine” was edited by 4 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (527^th place) and written by 23 authors in all languages (8030^th place).

Since the creation of article “Wayback Machine”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1382 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Wayback Machine is on the 40^th place in local ranking of websites in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 91^st place in global ranking of websites in all the time.

The article is cited 29689 times in Simple English Wikipedia (4^th place) and cited 3722725 times in all languages (15^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #271 in September 2021
• Global: #553 in October 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #904 in March 2022
• 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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