Some Interesting Statistics

I recently looked at download the stats in Maven Central and … was pleasantly surprised! So I decided to make a quick review of the first seven months, since the beginning of the project (previously called DataTables4j).

Here are some figures:

• 16 releases, from the v0.0.0-SNAPSHOT (DataTables4j) to the current v0.8.10 (Dandelion-Datatables)
• 5 pull-requests merged (all repos)
• 418 commits
• 4 contributors
• 60,030 lines of code
• 46 GitHub stars (all repos)
• 29 Twitter followers
• 75 topics in the forum
• 376 replies in the forum
• 1371 views in the forum

Here are some download stats:

Interesting figures! We call already draw some conclusions : * the JSP template engine is still far ahead of Thymeleaf, which yet deserves to be known * it seems you still massively use the 2.x Servlet API

We find all these statistics pretty amazing, especially because 99% of the project is coded on our free time (yes, we sometimes answer questions during work hours…), in the evenings and on weekends. To be honest, we weren’t expecting such results!

Well, the conclusion is pretty simple :