Module Counts

  • Include
  • Clojars (Clojure)
  • CPAN
  • CPAN (search)
  • CRAN (R)
  • Hackage (Haskell)
  • Maven Central (Java)
  • npm (node.js)
  • nuget (.NET)
  • Packagist (PHP)
  • Pear (PHP)
  • PyPI
  • Rubygems.org
  • time period
  • all time
  • last year
  • last 90 days
  • last 30 days
  • last 7 days
May 12 May 13 May 14 May 15 May 16 May 17 May 18 Avg Growth
Clojars (Clojure) 6208 6216 6219 6227 6237 6252 6260 9/day
CPAN 27498 27500 27509 27516 27526 27533 27540 7/day
CPAN (search) 27498 27501 27510 27517 27528 27533 27540 7/day
CRAN (R) 4514 4515 4521 4524 4530 4535 4528 2/day
Hackage (Haskell) 4911 4911 4911 4911 4911 4911 4911 0/day
Maven Central (Java) 57871 57879 57905 57992 58013 58080 58121 42/day
npm (node.js) 29772 29839 29931 30028 30106 30198 30263 82/day
nuget (.NET) 12247 12257 12286 12306 12337 12360 12362 19/day
Packagist (PHP) 10751 10796 10830 10869 10902 10938 10976 37/day
Pear (PHP) 595 595 595 595 595 595 595 0/day
PyPI 30833 30868 30901 30933 30968 31003 31037 34/day
Rubygems.org 56342 56392 56461 56523 56572 56627 56689 58/day

Data is collected by scraping the relevant websites once a day via a cron job and then stored in a Postgresql database for later retrieval. Growth rates are calculated by averaging data over the last week. I'm gathering counts of separate modules, so multiple versions of the same module/package/gem only count once (foo-1.2, foo-1.3 and bar-1.0 would count as 2 total).

(Mar 30, 2013) Several folks asked me to add Maven Central. It's a really big Java module repository. I look forward to seeing how fast it's growing. For now, this is the first time we've had a change in the top spot since Rubygems.org passed up CPAN in early 2011.

(Feb 28, 2013) Markus Fischer pointed out that there's a much bigger and better PHP package archive called Packagist. It's been added to the list. They have an awesome statistics page.

Several other folks reported issues with IE compatibility, CSV downloads and chart layout. Hopefully those are all fixed now.

I just (Nov 25, 2012) added the Clojars repository. Much thanks to Jonas Clasen for pointing it out to me.

Much thanks to W Watson for pointing out the nuget (.NET) package repository. I'd like to add more repositories. If you have suggestions, please send them to erik@debill.org.

CPAN and CPAN (search) used to be two conflicting sources for data about how many modules are in CPAN. During spring of 2011 CPAN got a site refresh and the numbers came into line with each other. It looks funny on the graph, but it's an interesting bit of history.

If you'd like to check out the data in more detail, you are welcome to download it in a CSV file.

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