Every repository has graphs that display data about traffic, contributors, and commits for the repository's default branch.

Accessing repository graphs

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.

  2. Under your repository name, click Graphs. Repository graphs icon

Contributors

The Contributors graph shows commits made by the top 100 contributors over the lifetime of your project. This graph doesn't include merge commits or commits with zero changes.

Repository contributors graph

Below the main graph, we display specific graphs for each contributor.

Repository contributors specific graph

You can click and drag in the main graph to select a range of time over which to view contributors and commits.

Repository contributors click drag graph

If you've contributed to a project, but don't see yourself in the repository contributors graph, see "I don't see myself in the repository contributors graph" for troubleshooting help.

Traffic

The Traffic graph shows how many full clones (excluding fetches) and web visitors your repository has had over the past 14 days. It also shows referring sites and popular content, ordered by views and unique visitors. Anyone with push access to a repository can view its traffic graph.

The clones and web visitors graphs update hourly, while the referring sites and popular content sections update daily. Note that the traffic graphs uses the UTC+0 timezone, regardless of your location.

To see the exact numbers for a given day, hover over the point for that day on the graph.

Repository traffic graphs with tooltip

Referring sites

The entries in the "Referring sites" section, excluding search engines and GitHub itself, are clickable links to the specific paths that the referral came from.

Popular content

The entries in the "Popular content" section link to the parts of the content that generated traffic.

Commits

The Commit Activity graph shows all commits made to your repository over the past year (excluding merge commits).

The top graph shows commits for the entire year by week.

Repository commit activity year graph

The bottom graph shows the average number of commits by day of the week for the selected week.

Repository commit activity week graph

Code frequency

The Code frequency graph shows a breakdown of additions and deletions for each week in your repository's history.

Punch card

The Punch card graph shows the frequency of updates to your repository based on day of week and time of day. The size of the black circle indicates commit frequency. This graph doesn't include merge commits.

Repository punch card graph

Network

The Network graph shows the branch history of the entire repository network, including branches of the root repository and branches of forks that contain commits unique to the network.

To see older branches, click and drag within the graph.

Repository network graph

Members

The Members tab shows all forks of the repository.

Repository members graph