Category Archives: stats
Where the codes are
There are currently 768 codes registered in the ASCL; the percentages of codes hosted on different popular sites are:
GitHub: 4.17%
SourceForge: 3.78%
Code.Google: 1.96%
Bitbucket: 0.52%
That means 11% of codes indexed by the ASCL are hosted on a public site conducive to social programming. That’s higher than the 7% from two years ago (by coincidence, almost exactly two years ago) and not unexpected, given the growth of GitHub. Fewer than 1% of ASCL codes were in GitHub two years ago (only 3 at that time — wow!); now there are 32 hosted on GitHub. For comparison, there were 14 codes on SourceForge two years ago, so while that number has doubled, the growth in use of GitHub is obviously much greater.
Though stored on sites conducive to collaboration, most of these codes are not big collaborations; the majority of codes in the ASCL in these repositories have 4 or fewer authors.
I expect the percentage of codes on such sites to grow as more people use these tools for versioning; I think those who use such tools may also be more open to sharing their codes and advertising them (via links in papers if nothing else), making them easier to find/register in the ASCL, too.
Where do they come from? ASCL pageviews by country
Idly browsing through Google Analytics statistics on the ASCL, I pulled out pageviews by country, these just of the ASCL forum on Asterisk for this month so far. Of the 4,843 pageviews, 1,939 (40%) are from the US, which means of course that 60% are not. People from eighty-three countries have accessed the code entries forum; I’ve tagged the pie slices below of the ten countries with at least 2% of the total pageviews. Click on the pie to see the chart at full size.
March pageviews by Country, as of 3/25/2013
600!
Yay!
That is all.
Now at 500 codes!
Sometimes the codes are easy to find, sometimes they are not. August was a good month. The last of the old codes have been moved over from the old site, associate editor Kim and I had a surprisingly easy time finding codes, and we even had a couple or three codes submitted by their authors. This boosted the ASCL to 500 codes.
Got codes? We want ’em; please share! Submit right on the ASCL itself. Know of a code we don’t have? Please suggest it for inclusion. Just post a reply with any information you have on it. Thanks!