Monthly stats: 2025 January - 2600+ new projects in a month, 7K+ users

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We think transparency is important to build a trustful open-source community, so we regularly share our usage and sustainability statistics.

You can find some statistics that we have found interesting (in parenthesis, you see the same figs for the previous months). If you are interested in any other figures, please let us know.

Statistics for January 2025

Featured:

January was the month when most people learned about SpecFlow's death. So as expected, Reqnroll received more activity.
The most outstanding change we can see is in the number of unique Reqnroll projects, where we see an increase by 2677 that is 45% more than in December.

Google Search Console kept informing me during January of more and more records reached (a few days ago the "3.5K clicks from Google search in 28 days"). This is also visible in the website and documentation visits that has been doubled again!

Also noticeable that people use the Visual Studio extension more actively: people opened Reqnroll projects twice as many times as in December. Considering that people usually keep open their projects for longer time, the 112K project loads in a month is a huge number. If that would be evenly distributed it would mean that every single minute in January more than two Reqnroll projects have been opened (2.52 to be precise).

From this month, I added a new statistic that might be useful to guess the number of active users: how many Visual Studio & Rider installations were active and how many times users upgraded to the latest Visual Studio extension version. The first might correlate to the total Reqnroll user count (excludes VSCode and "notepad" users though), the second might correlate to the very active users. This month we had 6740 active installations (6284 VS, 456 Rider) and 2536 upgrades to the latest VS extension. So how many users we have? It must be around 7-8K.

Usage:

• Website & Docs visitors: 8.9K (3.9K)
• Website & Docs page views: 56K (26K)
• Top 5 Docs page: Migration, Docs home, Quickstart, IDE Setup, Install & Setup (Migration, Quickstart, Docs home, IDE Setup, Gherkin reference)
• NuGet package downloads (Reqnroll package, last 6 weeks): 278K (312K)
• NuGet package downloads compared to SpecFlow NuGet downloads (last 6 weeks): 13% (12%)
• Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by VS2022 extension: 112.6 (67.3K)
• Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by Rider extension: 43.8 (N/A)
• Number of active VS2022 & Rider extension installations: 6.74K, VS: 6.28K, Rider: 0.46K (N/A)
• Upgrades to latest VS2022 extension: 2536 (941)
• Top 3 countries (from VS2022 extension usage): United Kingdom, USA, Netherlands (United Kingdom, USA, Netherlands)
• Reqnroll projects (.NET projects executed by Reqnroll): 8609 (5932)
• Reqnroll test executions: 2.4M (2.07M)
• Reqnroll test executions per project per month: avg: 330, median: 48 (avg: 350, median: 47)

.NET Framework Usage:

The list shows the .NET Framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.

1. .NET 8.0: 76% (79%)
2. .NET 9.0: 11% (9%)
3. .NET 4.8: 6% (5%)
4. .NET 6.0: 6% (5%)
5. .NET 7.0: 1% (2%)

Only those frameworks are shown where the usage is above 1%.

Test Execution Framework Usage:

The list shows the test execution framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.

1. NUnit: 42% (40%)
2. xUnit: 30% (32%)
3. MsTest: 28% (28%)

CI/CD Server Usage:

The list shows the CI/CD server usage distribution of Reqnroll projects that were executed in CI.

1. Azure Pipelines: 71% (71%)
2. GitHub Actions: 8% (10%)
3. GitLab CI/CD: 8% (10%)
4. Jenkins: 5% (5%)
5. TeamCity: 4% (3%)
6. Atlassian Bamboo: 2% (1%)
7. BrowserStack: 1% (1%)
8. Octopus Deploy: 1% (0%)

Sustainability:

• Active paid subscriptions: 1 (1)
• Sponsors: Gold: 1 (Spec Solutions), Silver: 1 (Info Support), Supporters: 4 (1/1/4)
• Yearly budget: ~$2200 ($2200)
• My time: 28hrs (19hrs)