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We measure aspects of the ROS community to understand and track the impact of our work and identify areas for improvement.
We take inspiration from the MeeGo Project's metrics.
While we do not track ROS users, we do measure various aspects of the ROS community to understand and track the impact of our work and identify areas for improvement.

Metrics.ros.org
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At `metrics.ros.org <https://metrics.ros.org>`_ you can find many visualizations of metrics about ROS.
Live Project Metrics
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- `metrics.ros.org <https://metrics.ros.org>`_ is a website that hosts relatively up to day visualizations of metrics about the ROS community.
- `The Linux Foundation's LFX dashboard on ROS <https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/ros?>`_ contains an up-to-date contributor, development, popularity, and project health metrics.
- `Our OSU OSL AWStats dashboard <https://awstats.osuosl.org/reports/packages.ros.org/2026/01/awstats.packages.ros.org.html>`_ provides real time data on ROS package downloads.

*Note that you will need to specify the current month and year in the AWStats URL to get the latest information.*

- Github mains a complete list of packages and projects tagged with `#ROS <https://github.com/topics/ros>`_ and `#ROS2 <https://github.com/topics/ros2>`_.
- An up to date list of citations for the original `ROS paper <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1227661396257612398&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en>`_ (`Quigley et al., 2009 <http://lars.mec.ua.pt/public/LAR%20Projects/BinPicking/2016_RodrigoSalgueiro/LIB/ROS/icraoss09-ROS.pdf>`_), and the canonical `ROS 2 paper <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=1227661396257612398&as_sdt=5>`_ (`Macenski et al., 2022 <https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/scirobotics.abm6074>`_) are both available on Google Scholar.

Periodic Metrics Report
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We periodically publish a metrics report that provides a quantitative view of the ROS community.
We're collectively learning what to measure and how and evoloving as systems change.
We're collectively learning what to measure and how and evolving as systems change.
Please provide feedback!
Add your suggestions on how to improve these reports by posting them to `ROS Discourse Site Feedback Category <http://discourse.ros.org/c/site-feedback>`_.

Historical Metrics Reports
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* `2025 <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/2025-ros-metrics-report/52575>`_
* `2024 <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/2024-ros-metrics-report/42354>`_
* `2023 <http://download.ros.org/downloads/metrics/metrics-report-2024-01.pdf>`_
* `2022 <http://download.ros.org/downloads/metrics/metrics-report-2022-07.pdf>`_
* `2021 <http://download.ros.org/downloads/metrics/metrics-report-2021-07.pdf>`_
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