How do I get more traffic on GitHub?

Don’t limit yourself to GitHub:

1. Find websites that aggregate open source projects and submit yours to them.
2. Have your project featured in popular newsletters for your language or platform.
3. Share on social media with relevant developers and accounts. Some good outlets are Product Hunt, Hacker News, Twitter, Reddit.

How do I make my open source project popular?

Help your open source project grow by getting it in the hands of happy users.

1. Spreading the word.
2. Figure out your message.
3. Help people find and follow your project.
4. Go where your project’s audience is (online)
5. Go where your project’s audience is (offline)
6. Build a reputation.

How can you contribute to a large open source project?

How to Contribute to an Open Source Project

1. Let’s set the stage… You come across someone’s project on Github and you love it!
2. Look for a CONTRIBUTING.md document or Contributing Guide in the documentation.
3. Look through the existing issues and PR s.
4. Submit an issue.
5. Make considerations before starting work.
6. Submit your PR.

What is GitHub traffic?

If your project is hosted on GitHub, you can view how many people land on your project and where they come from. From your project’s page, click “Insights”, then “Traffic”. On this page, you can see: Total unique visitors: Tells you how many people viewed your project.

What are unique visitors on GitHub?

Unique visitors refers to the number of individual users who have visited your repository and these are only counted once, regardless of how many times they visit the repo. Cloners refers to people to have cloned or downloaded a copy of your code from GitHub.

How do I promote my open source library?

How to promote your open source project

1. Being noticed as a person.
2. Provide value.
3. Create great documentation.
4. Be up-to-date.
5. Visibility on developer platforms.
6. Make a marketing plan.
7. Software quality.
8. Expectations is key.

How do I view traffic in GitHub?

Accessing the traffic graph

1. On GitHub.com, navigate to the main page of the repository.
2. Under your repository name, click Insights.
3. In the left sidebar, click Traffic.

How accurate is GitHub traffic?

It seems to me that GitHub analytics is not very accurate. I have some repositories with 1-3 visits in 14 days, and one that gets 5-20 visitors a day. Even for repositories that get little to no outside traffic, I might visit them a few times a week and still, analytics says 0 visits for those days.

How do I see traffic on GitHub?