Health-index distribution
Latest health index of every inspected repository, in five-point intervals over the 1–100 scale.
median 50
Critical · 37At Risk · 304Weak · 449Moderate · 479Good · 23511812
Record in aggregate · metrics 2.10.0
The state of Hex.
Aggregate statistics across every inspected repository publishing to Hex — how health distributes, where the download volume sits, and which practices are common or rare, measured against the whole record.
Inspected repositories
1,634 of 1,634 indexed
Repositories with a published inspection report — the basis of every figure on this page. Indexed repositories without a first report are excluded.
Monthly downloads under inspection
328M registry-reported
Combined monthly package downloads across the inspected repositories, as reported by package registries. Registries that publish no monthly figure contribute nothing rather than zero.
Median health index
50 Moderate
The midpoint health index across the scope, computed under metrics 2.10.0.
Good or better
22% index 65 and above
Share of inspected repositories whose latest health index reaches the Good band (65) or higher.
Where the download volume sits
Combined monthly downloads by band, against repository counts.
29% of the monthly download volume under inspection flows through repositories below the good band — and the top 1% most-downloaded repositories carry 62% of the entire volume.
Repositories
29%27%19%
Download volume
34%30%
| Band | Repositories | Downloads / mo | Volume share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exceptional | 12 | 112M | 34% |
| Excellent | 118 | 96.8M | 30% |
| Good | 235 | 22.9M | 7.0% |
| Moderate | 479 | 49.9M | 15% |
| Weak | 449 | 26.9M | 8.2% |
| At Risk | 304 | 19M | 5.8% |
| Critical | 37 | 652K | 0.2% |
Score shapes
The distribution behind each category median, in ten-point bins — where the record clusters, and where a category separates repositories or saturates.
Vitality48
1100
Community & Adoption48
1100
Sustainability & Governance61
1100
Engineering Quality56
1100
Security38
1100
AI Readiness40
1100
Category profile
Median category score across the scope. Ticks mark the whole-record median. Categories are documented in the methodology wiki.
The state of practice
Share of inspected repositories where the practice is publicly evident. Reports that predate a signal are excluded from its basis, never counted as missing.
Engineering & community practice
Agent-era signals
Signals read by the unweighted AI Readiness category.
Does popularity mean health?
Median health index (dot) and the middle half of repositories (band) per popularity bracket, on the shared 1–100 scale.
By GitHub stars
By monthly downloads
Security under the microscope
Average OpenSSF Scorecard result per check across the scope, weakest first, on Scorecard's 0–10 scale. Check results are mostly all-or-nothing, so the average tracks how much of the record passes. Checks Scorecard reports inconclusive are excluded from scoring, never counted as zero; each row's tooltip carries its basis.
Red flags
Findings that adjust a rating downward rather than scoring into it. Each is reported as a count, as a share of the whole record, and as a rate among the repositories where it could be determined at all.
A red flag needs its own evidence, so its basis is smaller than the record. Growth authenticity is assessed only where day-by-day history was collected; dependency findings only where a dependency graph resolved. Repositories the evidence cannot answer for are left out of the basis rather than counted as passing.
The pulse
How recently each inspected repository last saw a push, at inspection time.
Half of the inspected repositories saw a push within 57 days of inspection.
Push recency
39%18%27%
| Last push | Repositories | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pushed within 30 days | 644 | 39% |
| 31 – 90 days | 302 | 18% |
| 91 – 365 days | 437 | 27% |
| Over a year | 251 | 15% |
Stewardship & resilience
Who stands behind the inspected repositories, and how many people the code depends on. Both are read by the governance category.
869Organization-stewarded median 56
765Personal accounts median 44
Maintainer bus factor
81% of inspected repositories depend on a single maintainer for the majority of their commits — including 27 with over a million monthly downloads.
The dependency iceberg
Declared direct dependencies against the full resolved graph (direct plus transitive), across the 1,222 reports with a collected dependency graph.
The median repository declares 0 direct dependencies — and resolves to 0 packages in total.
Resolved packages per repository
License landscape
The most common detected licenses across the scope (SPDX identifiers).
Most relied upon
The most-downloaded repositories under inspection publishing to Hex — the records the figures above weigh heaviest. The rest is covered by the full catalogue · tag index.
npm · Hex
supabase/phoenix
Peace of mind from prototype to production
MITAug 27, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
npm · PyPI · Hex +2
taskforcesh/bullmq
BullMQ - Message Queue and Batch processing for NodeJS, Python, .NET, Elixir, Rust and PHP based on Redis or PostgreSQL
MITAug 27, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
npm · PyPI · Packagist +4
cucumber/gherkin
A parser and compiler for the Gherkin language.
MITAug 27, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
npm · Packagist · Hex +4
cucumber/messages
A message protocol for representing results and other information from Cucumber
MITOct 20, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
PyPI · crates.io · Go +1
ethereum/c-kzg-4844
A minimal implementation of the Polynomial Commitments API for EIP-4844 and EIP-7594, written in C.
Apache-2.0Aug 27, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
npm · Hex
phoenixframework/phoenix
Peace of mind from prototype to production
MITSep 16, 2026 · metrics 2.10.0
Reading these figures
- Every figure is computed from the latest published inspection of each repository, under the versioned methodology (currently metrics 2.10.0). See the methodology · band scale.
- Statistics describe the inspected record — software admitted for inspection, not a random sample of all open source. Admission follows the public-interest criteria.
- Download figures come from package registries; registries that publish no monthly number (Maven Central, Go, NuGet, RubyGems) contribute no volume rather than zero. Coverage per ecosystem is documented in supported ecosystems.
- Where a signal is unavailable in a report — an uncollected dependency graph, an inconclusive Scorecard check, a report predating a signal — the repository is excluded from that figure's basis, never counted against it.
- Health indices are signals of publicly visible practice, not audits or warranties — how to read them is covered by the health index.
- Figures computed 2026-10-21 09:48 UTC; the aggregate is recomputed hourly. The underlying data is available as JSON.