https://repotrending.com/guides/ Plain explanations of how GitHub repos are ranked, with the numbers we measured. en Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repotrending.com/guides/how-to-check-a-github-repo-before-you-depend-on-it/ https://repotrending.com/guides/how-to-check-a-github-repo-before-you-depend-on-it/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Five checks before you depend on a GitHub repo, with typical numbers for 2,500 popular repos: 212 have no license and the median is 11.1 forks per 100 stars. https://repotrending.com/guides/stars-per-year-comparing-old-and-new-github-repos/ https://repotrending.com/guides/stars-per-year-comparing-old-and-new-github-repos/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Total stars favor old repos. Dividing by age changes the top 100: 44 of the 88 repos over a year old stay in it. Counts for 2,500 repos on Oct 23, 2026. https://repotrending.com/guides/daily-weekly-monthly-which-window/ https://repotrending.com/guides/daily-weekly-monthly-which-window/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pick Today for what is new since yesterday, This week for a weekly check, This month for what keeps gaining. No window has a measured gain on Oct 23, 2026. https://repotrending.com/guides/find-claude-code-repos-worth-trying/ https://repotrending.com/guides/find-claude-code-repos-worth-trying/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT 81 repos sit behind the claude-code topic on Oct 23, 2026, and 50 were created this year. Here is a checklist to tell steady repos from spikes. https://repotrending.com/guides/github-trending-alternatives/ https://repotrending.com/guides/github-trending-alternatives/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Compare GitHub Trending, OSS Insight, Star History, Trendshift and GitTrend by what each counts and whether it says how. Read on Oct 23, 2026. https://repotrending.com/guides/how-github-trending-works/ https://repotrending.com/guides/how-github-trending-works/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT GitHub doesn't publish how its trending list is ranked. We will rank by stars gained over 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days, from daily snapshots of 12,468 repos. https://repotrending.com/guides/open-source-licenses-on-popular-github-repos/ https://repotrending.com/guides/open-source-licenses-on-popular-github-repos/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Among the 2,500 repos with a page on Oct 23, 2026, MIT leads with 953 repos and 212 have no license. Counts by license, plus what the sample hides. https://repotrending.com/guides/stars-gained-vs-total-stars/ https://repotrending.com/guides/stars-gained-vs-total-stars/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Total stars show what has lasted; stars gained show what is moving. 135 of 2,500 repos with a page have over 100,000 stars. Gains start Oct 24. https://repotrending.com/guides/trending-badge-for-your-readme/ https://repotrending.com/guides/trending-badge-for-your-readme/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Copy the Markdown for a repo/trending badge. It shows your best rank, or your star count until ranks exist. 2,500 repos have one, 2 files each. https://repotrending.com/guides/what-12468-github-repos-look-like/ https://repotrending.com/guides/what-12468-github-repos-look-like/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT On Oct 23, 2026 we tracked 12,468 GitHub repos. Here are the language, age and topic counts for the 2,500 most starred of them, and what those counts hide.