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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +layout: post |
| 3 | +title: "Monthly Stats: 2025 August - First stats about report usage" |
| 4 | +date: 2025-09-05 |
| 5 | +categories: News |
| 6 | +tags: statistics transparency |
| 7 | +image: assets/images/2025/stephen-dawson-qwtCeJ5cLYs-unsplash-1024.webp |
| 8 | +image_caption: "Photo by Stephen Dawson on Unsplash" |
| 9 | +author: gasparnagy |
| 10 | +--- |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +We believe transparency is important to build a trustworthy open-source community, so we regularly share our usage and sustainability statistics. |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +Below are some statistics we found interesting (in parentheses, you can see the figures for the previous month). If you are interested in any other figures, please let us know. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +## Featured Topic of the Month |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +We have released the long-awaited [v3 of Reqnroll](2025-08-21-reqnroll-v3-0-released-with-reporting.md) on the 21st of August. Although we have only 10 days of usage statistics from v3, we have already generated more than 5,000 reports! |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +Note: We have [released v3.0.1](https://github.com/reqnroll/Reqnroll/releases/tag/v3.0.1) today with a few small bug fixes. Please upgrade to v3.0.1. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +## Detailed Statistics for August 2025 |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +### Usage |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +* Website & Docs visitors: **8.1K** (9K) |
| 27 | +* Website & Docs page views: **46K** (50K) |
| 28 | +* Top 5 Docs pages: **Quickstart, Docs Home, Migration, Gherkin reference, IDE Setup** (Quickstart, Migration, Docs Home, Gherkin reference, IDE Setup) |
| 29 | +* NuGet package downloads (Reqnroll package, last 6 weeks): **1.22M** (0.74M) |
| 30 | +* NuGet package downloads compared to SpecFlow NuGet downloads (based on "per day average"): **69%** (73%) |
| 31 | +* Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by VS2022 extension: **340K** (391K) |
| 32 | +* Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by Rider extension: **10K** (11K) |
| 33 | +* Number of active VS2022 & Rider extension installations: **N/A*** (N/A*) |
| 34 | +* Upgrades to the latest VS2022 extension: **N/A*** (N/A*) |
| 35 | +* Top 3 countries (from VS2022 extension usage): **USA, India, United Kingdom** (India, USA, United Kingdom) |
| 36 | +* Reqnroll projects (.NET projects executed by Reqnroll): **20K** (20K) |
| 37 | +* Reqnroll test executions: **10.1M** (10.2M) |
| 38 | +* Reqnroll test executions per project per month: **avg: 497, median: 53** (avg: 515, median: 55) |
| 39 | +* Ratio of CI/CD executions: **44%** (43%) |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +Note: *There was no measurable information of VS extension installations, because the latest version was released more than 3 month ago. |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +### .NET Framework Usage |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +The list shows the .NET Framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects. |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +1. .NET 8.0: **70%** (71%) |
| 48 | +2. .NET 9.0: **15%** (14%) |
| 49 | +3. .NET 4.8: **10%** (9%) |
| 50 | +4. .NET 6.0: **4%** (4%) |
| 51 | +5. .NET 7.0: **1%** (1%) |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +Only frameworks with usage above 1% are shown. |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | +### Test Execution Framework Usage |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +The list shows the test execution framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects. |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +1. NUnit: **46%** (47%) |
| 60 | +2. xUnit: **29%** (28%) |
| 61 | +3. MsTest: **25%** (25%) |
| 62 | +4. TUnit: **0%** (n/a) |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +### CI/CD Server Usage |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +The list shows the CI/CD server usage distribution of Reqnroll projects that were executed in CI. |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | +1. Azure Pipelines: **66%** (65%) |
| 69 | +2. GitHub Actions: **10%** (10%) |
| 70 | +3. GitLab CI/CD: **7%** (8%) |
| 71 | +4. Jenkins: **7%** (7%) |
| 72 | +5. TeamCity: **5%** (5%) |
| 73 | +6. Atlassian Bamboo: **2%** (2%) |
| 74 | +7. BrowserStack: **1%** (1%) |
| 75 | +8. Octopus Deploy: **1%** (0%) |
| 76 | +9. Bitbucket Pipelines: **1%** (1%) |
| 77 | +10. GitLab CI: **1%** (0%) |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +### Formatters |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +The new reporting infrastructure (called [formatters](https://docs.reqnroll.net/latest/reporting/reqnroll-formatters.html)) has been introduced with the v3 release. There are the first usage stats. |
| 82 | + |
| 83 | +* HTML reports generated: 4.6K / 151 projects |
| 84 | +* Message reports generated: 1.1K / 41 projects |
| 85 | +* Ratio of projects used formatters: 1% |
| 86 | + |
| 87 | +### Sustainability |
| 88 | + |
| 89 | +* Active paid [subscriptions](https://reqnroll.net/support/): **3** (2) |
| 90 | +* [Sponsors](https://reqnroll.net/sponsorship/): **Gold: 1 (Spec Solutions), Silver: 1 (Info Support), Supporters: 4** (1/1/4) |
| 91 | +* Yearly budget: **~$2200** ($2200) |
| 92 | +* My time: **104hrs** (29hrs) |
| 93 | + |
| 94 | +📢 I encourage everyone to invite contributors for a coffee 🍵. That could help pay our hosting bills or even enable us to organize an in-person design workshop to better align our goals (and drink those coffees, of course. Maybe a beer 🍺 too...). [Become a sponsor](https://github.com/sponsors/reqnroll). |
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