Record in aggregate · metrics 1.13.0

The state of Packagist.

Aggregate statistics across every inspected repository publishing to Packagist — how health distributes, where the download volume sits, and which practices are common or rare, measured against the whole record.

Inspected repositories
3,161 of 3,163 indexed
Monthly downloads under inspection
3.9B registry-reported
Median health index
58 Moderate
Good or better
16% index 70 and above

Health-index distribution

Latest health index of every inspected repository, in five-point intervals over the 1–100 scale.

Where the download volume sits

Combined monthly downloads by band, against repository counts.

67% of the monthly download volume under inspection flows through repositories below the good band — and the top 1% most-downloaded repositories carry 27% of the entire volume.

Repositories
55%25%
Download volume
31%42%21%
BandRepositoriesDownloads / moVolume share
Excellent1598M2.5%
Good5051.2B31%
Moderate1,7401.6B42%
At risk775822M21%
Critical126153M3.9%

Score shapes

The distribution behind each category median, in ten-point bins — where the record clusters, and where a category separates repositories or saturates.

Vitality69
1100
Community & Adoption52
1100
Sustainability & Governance64
1100
Engineering Quality62
1100
Security45
1100
AI Readiness32
1100

Category profile

Median category score across the scope. Ticks mark the whole-record median. Categories are documented in the methodology wiki.

Vitality
69
Community & Adoption
52
Sustainability & Governance
64
Engineering Quality
62
Security
45
AI Readinessunweighted
32

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

README
96% of 3,161
License detected
92% of 3,161
Automated tests
84% of 3,161
CI workflows
79% of 3,161
Contributing guide
49% of 3,161
Linter configuration
46% of 3,161
Code of conduct
28% of 3,161
Documentation directory
27% of 3,161
Security policy
24% of 3,161

Agent-era signals

One-command bootstrap
14% of 3,161
AI agent instructions
12% of 3,161
llms.txt
0.6% of 3,161

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

Under 100 stars 2,028
55 · 47–62
100 – 999 677
63 · 54–70
1,000 – 9,999 392
68 · 59–76
10,000 and more 64
74 · 65–81

By monthly downloads

Under 10K / month 1,231
55 · 48–62
10K – 1M 1,380
59 · 49–68
1M – 100M 479
64 · 51–72
100M and more 3
40 · 32–74

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.

CII-Best-Practices
0.0
Fuzzing
0.0
SAST
0.7
Branch-Protection
1.0
Pinned-Dependencies
1.1
Signed-Releases
1.4
Token-Permissions
1.5
Code-Review
2.3
Security-Policy
2.9
Dependency-Update-Tool
4.3
Maintained
5.4
CI-Tests
5.9
Contributors
7.9
Vulnerabilities
9.0
License
9.1
Dangerous-Workflow
9.8
Binary-Artifacts
10.0
Packaging
10.0

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.

High-risk jurisdiction exposure
2608.2% of the record · 8.3% of 3,114 assessed
Abandonment
531.7% of the record · 1.7% of 3,163 assessed
Malicious dependencies
00% of the record · 0% of 331 assessed
Inorganic growth
00% of the record · 0% of 167 assessed

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 0 days of inspection.

Push recency
86%
Last pushRepositoriesShare
Pushed within 30 days2,70886%
31 – 90 days1284.0%
91 – 365 days2558.1%
Over a year702.2%

Stewardship & resilience

Who stands behind the inspected repositories, and how many people the code depends on. Both are read by the governance category.

2,478Organization-stewarded median 58
683Personal accounts median 57

Maintainer bus factor

60% of inspected repositories depend on a single maintainer for the majority of their commits — including 284 with over a million monthly downloads.

1 maintainer
1,892
2 maintainers
833
3–5 maintainers
379
6+ maintainers
54

The dependency iceberg

Declared direct dependencies against the full resolved graph (direct plus transitive), across the 2,495 reports with a collected dependency graph.

The median repository declares 2 direct dependencies — and resolves to 13 packages in total.

Resolved packages per repository

0
35
1 – 5
521
6 – 20
1,054
21 – 50
273
51 – 200
353
201 – 500
110
501 – 1,000
79
Over 1,000
70

License landscape

The most common detected licenses across the scope (SPDX identifiers).

MIT
1,743
Custom license
368
BSD-3-Clause
262
No license detected
252
GPL-2.0
160
Apache-2.0
124
GPL-3.0
104
LGPL-3.0
33
AGPL-3.0
22
LGPL-2.1
22

Most relied upon

The most-downloaded repositories under inspection publishing to Packagist — the records the figures above weigh heaviest. The rest is covered by the full catalogue · tag index.

npm · RubyGems · Packagist
74Goodhealth index
handlebars-lang/handlebars.js
Minimal templating on steroids.
JavaScript★ 18.7K↓ 166M/moJul 22, 2026
MITJul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0
npm · Packagist
32At riskhealth index
moment/moment
Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in javascript.
JavaScript★ 47.9K↓ 138M/moJul 21, 2026
MITJul 21, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0
PyPI · npm · Packagist +2
40At riskhealth index
google/flatbuffers
FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library
C++ · Rust★ 26.2K↓ 120M/moJul 20, 2026
Apache-2.0Jul 20, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0
npm · Packagist
71Goodhealth index
chartjs/Chart.js
Simple HTML5 Charts using the <canvas> tag
JavaScript★ 67.6K↓ 53.6M/moJul 13, 2026
MITJul 13, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0
npm · Packagist
87Excellenthealth index
swagger-api/swagger-ui
Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.
JavaScript★ 28.9K↓ 47.4M/moJul 22, 2026
Apache-2.0Jul 22, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0
npm · Packagist
58Moderatehealth index
yiisoft/yii2-framework
[READ ONLY] Yii 2 framework core code only. This is a subtree split off the "yii2" repository
PHP★ 234↓ 41.9M/moJul 13, 2026
BSD-3-ClauseJul 13, 2026 · metrics 1.13.0

Reading these figures

  • Every figure is computed from the latest published inspection of each repository, under the versioned methodology (currently metrics 1.13.0). 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 2026-07-23 05:46 UTC; the aggregate is recomputed hourly. The underlying data is available as JSON.