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With more information, you can:

- Understand how users respond to a new feature
- Figure out where new users come from
- Identify, and decide whether to support, an outlier use case or functionality
- Quantify your project's popularity
- Understand how your project is used
- Raise money through sponsorships and grants
* Understand how users respond to a new feature
* Figure out where new users come from
* Identify, and decide whether to support, an outlier use case or functionality
* Quantify your project's popularity
* Understand how your project is used
* Raise money through sponsorships and grants

For example, [Homebrew](https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/bbed7246bc5c5b7acb8c1d427d10b43e090dfd39/docs/Analytics.md) finds that Google Analytics helps them prioritize work:

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If your project is hosted on GitHub, [you can view](https://help.github.com/articles/about-repository-graphs/#traffic) 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 page views:** Tells you how many times your project was viewed
* **Total page views:** Tells you how many times your project was viewed

- **Total unique visitors:** Tells you how many people viewed your project
* **Total unique visitors:** Tells you how many people viewed your project

- **Referring sites:** Tells you where visitors came from. This metric can help you figure out where to reach your audience and whether your promotion efforts are working.
* **Referring sites:** Tells you where visitors came from. This metric can help you figure out where to reach your audience and whether your promotion efforts are working.

- **Popular content:** Tells you where visitors go on your project, broken down by page views and unique visitors.
* **Popular content:** Tells you where visitors go on your project, broken down by page views and unique visitors.

[GitHub stars](https://help.github.com/articles/about-stars/) can also help provide a baseline measure of popularity. While GitHub stars don't necessarily correlate to downloads and usage, they can tell you how many people are taking notice of your work.

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If usage is low compared to the number of people discovering your project, there are two issues to consider. Either:

- Your project isn't successfully converting your audience, or
- You're attracting the wrong audience
* Your project isn't successfully converting your audience, or
* You're attracting the wrong audience

For example, if your project lands on the front page of Hacker News, you'll probably see a spike in discovery (traffic), but a lower conversion rate, because you're reaching everyone on Hacker News. If your Ruby project is featured at a Ruby conference, however, you're more likely to see a high conversion rate from a targeted audience.

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Examples of community metrics that you may want to regularly track include:

- **Total contributor count and number of commits per contributor:** Tells you how many contributors you have, and who's more or less active. On GitHub, you can view this under "Insights" -> "Contributors." Right now, this graph only counts contributors who have committed to the default branch of the repository.
* **Total contributor count and number of commits per contributor:** Tells you how many contributors you have, and who's more or less active. On GitHub, you can view this under "Insights" -> "Contributors." Right now, this graph only counts contributors who have committed to the default branch of the repository.

![Contributor graph](/assets/images/metrics/repo_contributors_specific_graph.png)

- **First time, casual, and repeat contributors:** Helps you track whether you're getting new contributors, and whether they come back. (Casual contributors are contributors with a low number of commits. Whether that's one commit, less than five commits, or something else is up to you.) Without new contributors, your project's community can become stagnant.
* **First time, casual, and repeat contributors:** Helps you track whether you're getting new contributors, and whether they come back. (Casual contributors are contributors with a low number of commits. Whether that's one commit, less than five commits, or something else is up to you.) Without new contributors, your project's community can become stagnant.

- **Number of open issues and open pull requests:** If these numbers get too high, you might need help with issue triaging and code reviews.
* **Number of open issues and open pull requests:** If these numbers get too high, you might need help with issue triaging and code reviews.

- **Number of _opened_ issues and _opened_ pull requests:** Opened issues means somebody cares enough about your project to open an issue. If that number increases over time, it suggests people are interested in your project.
* **Number of _opened_ issues and _opened_ pull requests:** Opened issues means somebody cares enough about your project to open an issue. If that number increases over time, it suggests people are interested in your project.

- **Types of contributions:** For example, commits, fixing typos or bugs, or commenting on an issue.
* **Types of contributions:** For example, commits, fixing typos or bugs, or commenting on an issue.

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You could also measure the time it takes to move between stages in the contribution process, such as:

- Average time an issue remains open
- Whether issues get closed by PRs
- Whether stale issues get closed
- Average time to merge a pull request
* Average time an issue remains open
* Whether issues get closed by PRs
* Whether stale issues get closed
* Average time to merge a pull request

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