add Monthly Stats for October 2025 with detailed usage and sustainability statistics

Author: gasparnagy

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+layout: post
+title: "Monthly Stats: 2025 October"
+date: 2025-11-03
+categories: News
+tags: statistics transparency
+image: assets/images/2025/stephen-dawson-qwtCeJ5cLYs-unsplash-1024.webp
+image_caption: "Photo by Stephen Dawson on Unsplash"
+author: gasparnagy
+---
+
+We believe transparency is important to build a trustworthy open-source community, so we regularly share our usage and sustainability statistics.
+
+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.
+
+## Detailed Statistics for October 2025
+
+### Usage
+
+* Website & Docs visitors: **9.2K** (10K)
+* Website & Docs page views: **49K** (55K)
+* Top 5 Docs pages: **Quickstart, Docs Home, Gherkin reference, SpecFlow Migration, IDE Setup** (Docs Home, Quickstart, SpecFlow Migration, Gherkin reference, IDE Setup)
+* NuGet package downloads (Reqnroll package, last 6 weeks): **1.83M** (1.7M)
+* NuGet package downloads compared to SpecFlow NuGet downloads (based on "per day average"): **77%** (71%)
+* Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by VS2022 extension: **407K** (404K)
+* Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by Rider extension: **8.3K** (10K)
+* Upgrades to the latest VS2022 extension: **8.7K** (May: 7.6K)
+* Installations of VS2022 extension (all versions, without upgrades): **76.4K** (N/A)
+* Top 3 countries (from VS2022 extension usage): **USA, India, United Kingdom** (India, USA, United Kingdom)
+* Reqnroll projects (.NET projects executed by Reqnroll): **23K** (22K)
+* Reqnroll test executions: **12.5M** (11.4M)
+* Reqnroll test executions per project per month: **avg: 538, median: 56** (avg: 515, median: 53)
+* Ratio of CI/CD executions: **45%** (45%)
+
+### .NET Framework Usage
+
+The list shows the .NET Framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.
+
+1. .NET 8.0: **69%** (68%)
+2. .NET 9.0: **17%** (17%)
+3. .NET 4.8: **9%** (9%)
+4. .NET 6.0: **3%** (4%)
+5. .NET 10.0 RC/Preview: **1%** (0.2%)
+6. .NET 7.0: **1%** (1%)
+
+Only frameworks with usage above 1% are shown.
+
+### Test Execution Framework Usage
+
+The list shows the test execution framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.
+
+1. NUnit: **45%** (45%)
+2. xUnit: **30%** (30%)
+3. MsTest: **24%** (24%)
+4. xUnit v3: **0.8%** (0.1%)
+5. TUnit: **0.3%** (0.3%)
+
+### CI/CD Server Usage
+
+The list shows the CI/CD server usage distribution of Reqnroll projects that were executed in CI.
+
+1. Azure Pipelines: **66%** (66%)
+2. GitHub Actions: **10%** (10%)
+3. Jenkins: **7%** (7%)
+4. GitLab CI/CD: **5%** (6%)
+5. TeamCity: **4%** (4%)
+6. GitLab CI: **3%** (2%)
+7. Atlassian Bamboo: **2%** (2%)
+8. BrowserStack: **1%** (1%)
+9. Bitbucket Pipelines: **1%** (1%)
+10. Octopus Deploy: **1%** (1%)
+
+
+### Formatters
+
+The new reporting infrastructure (called [formatters](https://docs.reqnroll.net/latest/reporting/reqnroll-formatters.html)) has been introduced with the v3 release.
+
+* [HTML](https://docs.reqnroll.net/latest/reporting/reqnroll-formatters.html#html-formatter) reports generated: 105.4K / 554 projects (61.7K / 452)
+* [Message](https://docs.reqnroll.net/latest/reporting/reqnroll-formatters.html#cucumber-messages-formatter) reports generated: 22.9K / 155 projects (17.2K / 124)
+* [Expressium](https://github.com/ExpressiumOSS/Expressium.LivingDoc) reports generated: 2.4K / 31 projects (0.6K / 15)
+* Ratio of projects used formatters: 3.2% (2.7%)
+
+### Sustainability
+
+* Active paid [subscriptions](https://reqnroll.net/support/): **3** (3)
+* [Sponsors](https://reqnroll.net/sponsorship/): **Gold: 1 (Spec Solutions), Silver: 2 (Info Support, LambdaTest), Supporters: 4** (1/2/4)
+* Yearly budget: **~$2800** ($2800)
+* My time: **21hrs** (48hrs)
+
+📢 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).