VilaWeb grew out of an online directory in Catalan called Infopista, set up by Partal in 1995. It was initially designed as a local directory of catalan websites. One year later, Infopista turned into Vilaweb, including new services. Before embarking on this venture, Vicent Partal had been responsible for directing the digital edition of El Temps magazine. Written in Catalan, with the publication of this digital edition in 1994, the magazine was the first media outlet in Spain to establish material and a presence on the World Wide Web. More information...
According to PR-model, vilaweb.cat is ranked 2,824th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 19th in Catalan Wikipedia.
The website is placed before eso.org and after tracesofwar.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.