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Software health reportschema 0.17.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-07-21 07:59 UTC

pubnub / php

PubNub clients for PHP

PHPCustom license★ 133 stars⑂ 89 forkssince Mar 2013View on GitHub ↗
KindLibraryhow this is determined

pubnub/php holds a health index of 65 out of 100, placing it in the Good band. It scores highest on Sustainability & Governance (71/100) and lowest on Security (36/100). It was last updated today. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

65
overall / 100
Good

Software health index

Metrics are grouped into weighted categories on one standardized 1–100 scale. Overall starts as their weighted mean, calibrated against the distribution of the public record so bands carry percentile meaning; when public evidence triggers the High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy, the rating is adjusted and receives an At Risk ceiling of 34.

65
Exceptional93-100The record's top tier (≈ top 5%); essentially all checked criteria met
Excellent80-92Strong across the board; minor gaps
Good65-79Healthy; gaps are limited and manageable
Moderate50-64Acceptable with notable gaps; review recommended
Weak35-49Material weaknesses across several areas
At Risk20-34Significant weaknesses; adoption warrants caution
Critical1-19Severe problems (abandoned, single-maintainer, no hygiene)
VitalityCommunity &AdoptionSustainability &GovernanceEngineeringQualitySecurityAI Readiness

Score profile

Each axis is a category. The shape matters more than the average — a healthy subject fills the whole shape, while a spike-and-crater profile means strength in one dimension is masking risk in another.

The weighted overall 60 is calibrated to 65 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

PubNubOrganization
88 followers302 public repossince Jun 2010

This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publishTags
Packagistpubnub/pubnub9.0.2284,478640 days agoapireal-timeajaxpushrealtime

Metrics by category

Vitality

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?

67Good · 21% of overall

Development activity

51Moderate
How it's scored
36/36Push recency — last push 0 days ago
4.2/36Commit cadence — 6/52 weeks with commits
8.6/18Commit volume — 8 commits in the last year
2/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 3 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 2
Inputs used
commits_last_year8
human_commit_share—
days_since_last_push0
active_weeks_last_year6

Release discipline

92Excellent
How it's scored
27/27Ships releases — 39 releases published
36/36Release recency — latest release 0 days ago
19.8/27Release cadence — a release every ~62.7 days
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data
Inputs used
releases_count39
latest_release_tag9.0.2
releases_from_tagsno
days_since_latest_release0
mean_days_between_releases62.7
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

60Moderate · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

59Moderate
How it's scored
34.4/60Stars — 133 stars
16.2/25Forks — 89 forks
8.7/15Watchers — 38 watchers
Inputs used
forks89
stars133
watchers38
growth_stateorganic
growth_factor_pct100

Community health

44Weak
How it's scored
22.5/22.5README
16.9/22.5License — license file present, not a recognized license
0/18CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5Code of conduct
0/7.2Issue template
0/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeyes
has_licenseyes
readme_badges—
has_contributingno
has_issue_templateno
has_code_of_conductno
readme_badge_services—
has_pull_request_templateno

Ecosystem adoption (downloads)

82Excellent
How it's scored
72.7/80Monthly downloads — 284,478 downloads/month across packagist
9.1/20Registry dependents — 22 packages depend on it
Inputs used
packagespubnub/pubnub
dependents22
ecosystemspackagist
total_downloads5,562,081
monthly_downloads284,478
unverified_packages_excluded—

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

71Good · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

37Weak
How it's scored
9/54Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
4.6/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 80% of commits
13.5/13.5Contributor breadth — 17 contributors
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 3 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
bus_factor1
contributors_sampled17
top_contributor_share0.796

Issue & PR responsiveness

72Good
How it's scored
28/42Issue resolution — 67% of issues closed
19.9/30PR acceptance — 79/119 decided PRs merged
0/13Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
15/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — all changesets reviewed
Inputs used
merged_prs79
open_issues2
closed_issues4
prs_merged_7d—
prs_decided_7d—
prs_merged_30d—
prs_decided_30d—
issue_closed_ratio0.667
closed_unmerged_prs40
first_time_authors_30d—
first_time_prs_merged_30d—
first_time_prs_decided_30d—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

86Excellent
How it's scored
30/30Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20Verified domain — verified-domain status not read for this organization
14/25Owner reach — 88 followers of pubnub
25/25Track record — 302 public repos, account ~16 yr old
Inputs used
followers88
owner_typeOrganization
is_verified—
owner_loginpubnub
public_repos302
account_age_days5,890
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Verified domain. Remaining weights renormalized.

Package maintenance

100Exceptional
How it's scored
25/25Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on packagist
35/35Publish recency — latest publish 0 days ago
20/20Version history — 64 published versions
20/20Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked
Inputs used
packagespubnub/pubnub
ecosystemspackagist
any_deprecatedno
min_days_since_publish0

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

62Moderate · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

70Good
How it's scored
24/24CI workflows — 4 workflow(s)
24/24Tests present
16/16Linter config — phpstan.neon
0/9.6Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4.editorconfig
6/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 10 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 3
Inputs used
has_ciyes
has_testsyes
has_editorconfigno
has_linter_configyes
has_precommit_configno

Documentation

50Moderate
How it's scored
30/30README
0/25Documentation directory
0/15Documentation / homepage site
10/10Repository description
0/10Topics
10/10Wiki
Inputs used
topics—
has_wikiyes
homepage—
docs_site—
has_readmeyes
has_docs_dirno
has_descriptionyes

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

36Weak · 16% of overall

Security posture

26At Risk
How it's scored
7.5/7.5Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5Branch-Protection — no data
0.8/2.5CI-Tests — 10 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 3
0/2.5CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
7.5/7.5Code-Review — all changesets reviewed
2.5/2.5Contributors — project has 3 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 10
0/10Dangerous-Workflow — dangerous workflow patterns detected
0/7.5Dependency-Update-Tool — no update tool detected
0/5Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.2/2.5License — license file detected
1.5/7.5Maintained — 3 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 2
0/5Packaging — no data
0/5Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
0/5SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0/5Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
0/7.5Vulnerabilities — 14 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated15
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive3
scorecard_aggregate2.6
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Packaging, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Dependency advisories

78Good
How it's scored
18.5/35Direct dependencies free of known advisories — 1 affected: guzzlehttp/guzzle 7.9.2 (moderate 5.9)
0/25Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
40/40No advisories left outstanding — no advisory has been public longer than 90 days
Inputs used
sourceosv
advisories14
affected_packages4
assessed_packages68
unassessed_packages0
affected_by_severityhigh 1, moderate 3
direct_affected_packages1
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 68 resolved dependencies against OSV. This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so the repository dependency graph was assessed instead. That graph mixes development and test pins with shipped dependencies, so only the declared runtime dependencies are scored; transitive findings are reported as context and excluded from the score. Reachability is not analyzed.

AI Readiness

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight (4%): agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but a repository with none can still reach 100/100.

44Weak · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

1Critical
How it's scored
0/45Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
0/40Legible commit history — no data
Inputs used
has_llms_txtno
llms_txt_url—
legible_history_share—
agent_instruction_files—
agent_instruction_max_bytes—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Legible commit history. Remaining weights renormalized.

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

52Moderate
How it's scored
0/18One-command bootstrap
22/22Automated tests
11/11Lint / format config — phpstan.neon
0/11Static type checking
10/10Reproducible environment — lockfile
0/10Demonstrated agent practice — no data
0/8Automated maintenance — no data
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsyes
lockfilescomposer.lock
has_dockerfileno
typed_languageno
bootstrap_files—
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configyes
typecheck_configs—
agent_commit_share—
toolchain_manifests—
dependency_bot_commit_share—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Demonstrated agent practice, Automated maintenance. Remaining weights renormalized.

Code legibility for models

55Moderate
How it's scored
0/45Type-checkable code — PHP without a type-check config
55/55Manageable file sizes — 0/340 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languagePHP
largest_source_bytes36,959
source_files_sampled340
oversized_source_files0

Machine-readable interfaces

100Exceptional
How it's scored
0/40API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) — not applicable to this kind of software
0/20MCP server — not applicable to this kind of software
40/40Runnable examples — examples
Inputs used
example_dirsexamples
has_mcp_signalno
api_schema_files—
interfaces_expected_of—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto), MCP server. Remaining weights renormalized.

Key facts

133GitHub stars
17contributors
8commits, last 12 months
0days since last push
39releases
1bus factor
2open issues
Packagistpackage ecosystems

More detail

Star and fork history 133 ★ / 0 ⇿
133Stars

When each star and fork was added, collected from GitHub and bucketed by day. Cumulative growth sits directly above the daily additions it is made of, so the two read against each other: steady organic accretion looks nothing like an abrupt, short-lived burst. Where that difference is measurable, it is reported as growth authenticity.

025507510012515013332013-042019-102026-05

Each point covers 12 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 2.6 / 10
2.6aggregate

Independent, tool-agnostic security assessment from the open-source OpenSSF Scorecard. Each check rewards a security practice, not a specific vendor's tool. Checks Scorecard could not determine are marked n/a and excluded from the security score (never counted as zero).Scorecard v5.5.0 · 2026-07-21 07:59 UTC

10Binary-Artifactsno binaries found in the repo
n/aBranch-Protectioninternal error: error during branchesHandler.setup: internal error: some github tokens can't read classic branch protection rules: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/blob/main/docs/authentication/fine-grained-auth-token.md
3CI-Tests10 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 3
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
10Code-Reviewall changesets reviewed
10Contributorsproject has 3 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 10
0Dangerous-Workflowdangerous workflow patterns detected
0Dependency-Update-Toolno update tool detected
0Fuzzingproject is not fuzzed
9Licenselicense file detected
2Maintained3 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 2
n/aPackagingpackaging workflow not detected
0Pinned-Dependenciesdependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
0SASTSAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0Security-Policysecurity policy file not detected
n/aSigned-Releasesno releases found
0Token-Permissionsdetected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
0Vulnerabilities14 existing vulnerabilities detected
Direct dependencies 3
RegistryPackageVersion constraintManifest
Packagistrmccue/requests^2.0composer.json
Packagistpsr/log^1.1|^2.0|^3.0composer.json
Packagistguzzlehttp/guzzle^7.9composer.json
All dependencies 68

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 3 direct and 65 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

RegistryPackageVersionRelation
Packagistguzzlehttp/guzzle7.9.2direct
Packagistpsr/log3.0.2direct
Packagistrmccue/requests2.0.15direct
Packagistbehat/behat3.19.0indirect
Packagistbehat/gherkin4.12.0indirect
Packagistbehat/transliterator1.5.0indirect
Packagistcomposer/pcre3.3.2indirect
Packagistcomposer/xdebug-handler3.0.5indirect
Packagistdoctrine/instantiator2.0.0indirect
Packagistgraham-campbell/result-type1.1.3indirect
Packagistguzzlehttp/promises2.0.4indirect
Packagistguzzlehttp/psr72.7.0indirect
Packagistmonolog/monolog3.8.1indirect
Packagistmyclabs/deep-copy1.13.0indirect
Packagistnikic/php-parser5.4.0indirect
Packagistphar-io/manifest2.0.4indirect
Packagistphar-io/version3.2.1indirect
Packagistphpoption/phpoption1.9.4indirect
Packagistphpstan/phpstan1.12.21indirect
Packagistphpunit/php-code-coverage9.2.32indirect
Packagistphpunit/php-file-iterator3.0.6indirect
Packagistphpunit/php-invoker3.1.1indirect
Packagistphpunit/php-text-template2.0.4indirect
Packagistphpunit/php-timer5.0.3indirect
Packagistphpunit/phpunit9.6.22indirect
Packagistpsr/container2.0.2indirect
Packagistpsr/event-dispatcher1.0.0indirect
Packagistpsr/http-client1.0.3indirect
Packagistpsr/http-factory1.1.0indirect
Packagistpsr/http-message2.0indirect
Packagistralouphie/getallheaders3.0.3indirect
Packagistsebastian/cli-parser1.0.2indirect
Packagistsebastian/code-unit1.0.8indirect
Packagistsebastian/code-unit-reverse-lookup2.0.3indirect
Packagistsebastian/comparator4.0.8indirect
Packagistsebastian/complexity2.0.3indirect
Packagistsebastian/diff4.0.6indirect
Packagistsebastian/environment5.1.5indirect
Packagistsebastian/exporter4.0.6indirect
Packagistsebastian/global-state5.0.7indirect
Packagistsebastian/lines-of-code1.0.4indirect
Packagistsebastian/object-enumerator4.0.4indirect
Packagistsebastian/object-reflector2.0.4indirect
Packagistsebastian/recursion-context4.0.5indirect
Packagistsebastian/resource-operations3.0.4indirect
Packagistsebastian/type3.2.1indirect
Packagistsebastian/version3.0.2indirect
Packagistsquizlabs/php_codesniffer3.11.3indirect
Packagistsymfony/config6.4.14indirect
Packagistsymfony/console6.4.17indirect
Packagistsymfony/dependency-injection6.4.19indirect
Packagistsymfony/deprecation-contracts3.5.1indirect
Packagistsymfony/event-dispatcher6.4.13indirect
Packagistsymfony/event-dispatcher-contracts3.5.1indirect
Packagistsymfony/filesystem6.4.13indirect
Packagistsymfony/polyfill-ctype1.31.0indirect
Packagistsymfony/polyfill-intl-grapheme1.31.0indirect
Packagistsymfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer1.31.0indirect
Packagistsymfony/polyfill-mbstring1.31.0indirect
Packagistsymfony/polyfill-php801.33.0indirect
Packagistsymfony/service-contracts3.5.1indirect
Packagistsymfony/string6.4.15indirect
Packagistsymfony/translation6.4.19indirect
Packagistsymfony/translation-contracts3.5.1indirect
Packagistsymfony/var-exporter6.4.19indirect
Packagistsymfony/yaml6.4.18indirect
Packagisttheseer/tokenizer1.2.3indirect
Packagistvlucas/phpdotenv5.6.2indirect
Dependency advisories 4

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 68 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 4 carry known advisories, of which 1 are direct.

PackageVersionRelationSeverityAdvisoriesFixed in
phpunit/phpunit9.6.22indirecthigh112.5.8
guzzlehttp/guzzle7.9.2directmoderate77.15.1
guzzlehttp/psr72.7.0indirectmoderate32.12.1
symfony/yaml6.4.18indirectmoderate38.0.12

An advisory means the version recorded in the dependency graph falls inside an advisory’s affected range. Reachability is not analysed, and the graph includes development and test pins — a finding may concern tooling rather than shipped software.

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