Competitor Tracking · Reviewed 14 Oct 2026

Star History

Track and compare GitHub star growth for open-source projects.

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Star History at a glance

SEO analysis

Collected Oct 14, 2026

star-history.com: an estimated 245,665 total monthly visits and about 10,727 monthly organic visits across 428 ranking keywords. Scout crawled 15 pages and measured a technical health score of 96/100.

Overview

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Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

Star History is a web application that lets users view and compare GitHub star growth for open-source projects S1. It serves developers and open-source maintainers who want to track project popularity and benchmark against peers S1. The tool provides historical star charts, comparison views, and embeddable README badges, helping users make data-driven decisions about project health and adoption S45.

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Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: Star History is a web app for tracking and comparing GitHub star growth S1.
  • Core purpose: It solves the problem of understanding open-source project popularity over time S1.
  • Intended users: Developers and open-source maintainers who want to analyze star trends S1.
  • Product scope: A single web application with star history charts, comparison tools, and a Chrome extension S1.
  • Positioning: Positioned as a tool to "view and compare GitHub star history graph of open source projects" S1.
  • Claimed distinction: Not established in the collected sources.
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Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
Open-source maintainersTrack the growth of their own repositories and compare with competitors S1.
Developers evaluating projectsAssess the popularity and momentum of open-source projects before adoption S1.
Technical writersEmbed live star history charts in documentation or README files S45.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Star history visualizationDisplays a graph of a repository's star growth over time, allowing users to see trends S1.
Repository comparisonEnables side-by-side comparison of star history for multiple repositories S1.
README chart embeddingAllows users to embed live star history charts in README files for their own repositories S45.
Chrome extensionProvides a browser extension for quick access to star history S1.
Curated comparisonsOffers pre-built comparisons for categories like API clients and note-taking apps S13 S15.
Star History APIProvides an API endpoint to fetch star history data programmatically S33.
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Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
GitHub APIAPIProvides star history data for repositories, enabling the service to function S33.
Chrome ExtensionExtensionOffers a browser extension for quick access to star history S1.
README embeddingData portabilityAllows users to embed live star history charts in README files S45.

Pricing

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Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
FreeNot establishedAccess to star history charts and comparisons S1Not established

Competition

12

Alternative tools

Named from this report, then each website opened and checked before it is shown.

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
stars.github.com423.5github star, github stars
opensource.stackexchange.com223github star, github stars
docs.github.com224github star, github stars
reddit.com226github star, github stars
github.com227github star, github stars
danvdk.medium.com118github star
the-guild.dev118github stars
gitstar-ranking.com119github star

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

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AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 2.3%
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Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

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Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Competitor gap4 first-page appearances across github star, github stars

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • pricing: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • features: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

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Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

PlatformPageHow it was foundNote
shouldiuse.ioStar History Review 2026: Pricing & Pros / Should I Use ItGrounded web searchDiscussion centers on GitHub API changes breaking the tool and users building their own alternatives in response. > “After GitHub's stars API broke star-history, I built a ... 6. After GitHub's stars API broke star-history (Reddit) reddit.com

Customer proof

No named customers, testimonials, or customer case studies were found.

Independent mentions

  • Introducing the new star-history.com – the missing GitHub star history graph / Hacker News — / Introducing the new star-history.com – the missing GitHub star history graph(star-history.com) / / --- / / 85 points by tianzhou on Jan 23, 2022/ hide/ past/ favorite/ 44 comments / ... star-history.com is already the de-facto GitHub star history graph. Recently, we just finished a major update. 1. Generate high resolution chart image. 2. Timeline mode to align trajectory among repos debuted from different times. 3. Embed chart into other websites. 4. Temporarily toggle a particular repo. We t
  • Very frustrated. The GitHub API’s new restrictions almost killed this project — > > Update 2026 Aug 15th. I had 2 meetings with the GitHub team. They said they are actively working on it to restore the behavior. > > Thanks for raising this. As the maintainer, I feel frustrated too. > > This is the inherent risk of building on someone else's platform—in this case, we're at the mercy of GitHub's decisions. > > While it's unlikely I can fully restore the previous star history experience given this new GitHub restriction, I'm actively researching ways to work around it. For upd
  • star-history/star-history — 3%) - License: MIT License (MIT) - Topics: github, github-star, github-star-history, github-trending, graph, history, star, star-history - Default ... star-history.com, the de facto GitHub star history graph.
  • GitHub Star History Graph / Hacker News — GitHub Star History Graph / Hacker News GitHub Star History Graph (star-history.com) ... star history grapher ... t happy with the ... various online incarnations ... by star-history.com vs my tool ... star-history/issues
  • README.md — - Branch: main - Repository: star-history/ ... --- 🧩 Also available as a Chrome extension # :sparkles: Star History :sparkles: star-history.com, the de facto GitHub star history graph. --- ... **(like
  • GitHub Has Restricted Access to Star Data / Hacker News — Because astroturfing and fake stars for projects are absolutely rampant right now. Hiding the stats makes it impossible to look at heuristics and essentially makes it even more useless as a metric of anything. verdverm 3 months ago / root / parent / next – stars have never been a good metric, I use them as bookmarks, not a show of support or that I use a project, more often than not they have a feature or two that I'm curious about for my own projects
  • Star-History and the Art of the Honest Approximation — the "stargazers" endpoint, which lists users who starred the project alongside a timestamp. But fetching every single page of stargazers for a massive project like React or Vue would instantly exhaust the GitHub API rate limit of 5,000 requests per hour.
  • star-history.com in 2025 — driven by the expanding open source ... on GitHub. We're also seeing more hockey stick charts. ... This was caused by GitHub API rate limiting, as rendering the chart requires calling the GitHub API—and we make a lot of API calls.

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipGrafana is an observability and data visualization platform. It simplifies the complexity of monitoring: provide the data and Grafana will take care of the visualization. It was first released in 2014 by Torkel Ödegaardsource
Contact and supportNot published on the collected pages.—
Legal and privacyNot published on the collected pages.—
Security and complianceEmbedding a live chart for your own repo in a README. Supply a token that can read your repo — it's encrypted, so it's safe to put in a public README. See how to embed the chart in your README.source
ReliabilityNot published on the collected pages.—
Domain registered2021-10-14—
Domain expires2029-10-14—

Not published in the collected sources: contact and support, legal and privacy, reliability. Absence here means the site does not state it publicly, not that it is false.

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Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
Star History Open Source Best of 2022 / Platform EngineeringRoadmapPublic product roadmap. (source)Not dated
Star History Open Source Best of 2022 / Platform EngineeringProduct updateProduct update is publicly available. (source)Not dated
GitHub Has Restricted Access to Star DataProduct updateProduct update is publicly available. (source)September 2026

Not found in the collected public sources: changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

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Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)Web application and browser extension S1.S1
Platforms and appsWeb platform; Chrome extension available S1.S1
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)Provides an API endpoint for star history data S33.S33
Data ownership and exportNot published on the collected pages.—
Performance and reliability claimsNot published on the collected pages.—
Release activityNot published on the collected pages.—
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
Domain registered2021-10-14 — Cloudflare, Inc.
Domain expires2029-10-14
First archived2021-12-01 — web archive
TLS certificateGoogle Trust Services, valid, expires 2026-12-12
Security headersX-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy
Headers not servedHSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options
Server headercloudflare
Nameserverscoby.ns.cloudflare.com, luciana.ns.cloudflare.com
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Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 96/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 8
  • Notices: 13

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
warningPage should have one primary H10https://www.star-history.com/
warningPage should have one primary H10https://www.star-history.com/
warningPage should have one primary H10https://www.star-history.com/starmap/
noticeLow visible word count57https://www.star-history.com/starmap/
warningTitle length should be reviewed150https://www.star-history.com/top-committers/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed191https://www.star-history.com/top-committers/
noticeImages are missing alt text2https://www.star-history.com/morluto/rea/
noticeImages are missing alt text2https://www.star-history.com/storytold/photocraft/
noticeImages are missing alt text2https://www.star-history.com/boykopovar/anyps5/
noticeImages are missing alt text2https://www.star-history.com/storytold/artcraft/
noticeImages are missing alt text2https://www.star-history.com/mattpocock/skills/
noticeImages are missing alt text2https://www.star-history.com/storytold/wordcraft/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed234https://www.star-history.com/cathrynlavery/diagram-design/
noticeImages are missing alt text2https://www.star-history.com/cathrynlavery/diagram-design/
noticeImages are missing alt text2https://www.star-history.com/lexmount/moli/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed241https://www.star-history.com/debpalash/voicestudio/
noticeImages are missing alt text2https://www.star-history.com/debpalash/voicestudio/
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.star-history.com/
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.star-history.com/
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample2https://www.star-history.com/
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample2https://www.star-history.com/

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200GitHub Star History — Track & Compare Open Source Star Growth020284 mshttps://www.star-history.com/
200GitHub Star History — Track & Compare Open Source Star Growth020274 mshttps://www.star-history.com/
200📕 How to use GitHub Star History187675 mshttps://www.star-history.com/blog/how-to-use-github-star-history/
200Starmap — Star History05775 mshttps://www.star-history.com/starmap/
200Compare GitHub Repositories — Star History153071 mshttps://www.star-history.com/compare/
200Top 1,000 Committers 2026 — among GitHub's 20,000 most-followed users and top contributors to its 20,000 most-starred repositories \Star History14955161 ms
200morluto/rea - 197.1k Stars · Global Rank #31167694 mshttps://www.star-history.com/morluto/rea/
200storytold/photocraft - 56.8k Stars · Global Rank #4161283260 mshttps://www.star-history.com/storytold/photocraft/
200boykopovar/AnyPS5 - 34.5k Stars · Global Rank #9671660106 mshttps://www.star-history.com/boykopovar/anyps5/
200storytold/artcraft - 24.7k Stars · Global Rank #17051710100 mshttps://www.star-history.com/storytold/artcraft/
200mattpocock/skills - 289.2k Stars · Global Rank #13185888 mshttps://www.star-history.com/mattpocock/skills/
200storytold/wordcraft - 10.6k Stars · Global Rank #52011270193 mshttps://www.star-history.com/storytold/wordcraft/
200cathrynlavery/diagram-design - 53.7k Stars · Global Rank #458168878 mshttps://www.star-history.com/cathrynlavery/diagram-design/
200lexmount/moli - 17.9k Stars · Global Rank #26401289140 mshttps://www.star-history.com/lexmount/moli/
200debpalash/VoiceStudio - 62.2k Stars · Global Rank #355177761 mshttps://www.star-history.com/debpalash/voicestudio/

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

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Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct53.9%
search17.3%
search organic17.3%
search paid0.0%
social3.1%
social organic3.1%
social paid0.0%
referrals22.8%
paid referrals0.0%
mail0.6%
gen ai2.3%
affiliate0.0%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

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Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected sources do not mention any alternative products. Evidence gaps include lack of pricing details, customer testimonials, and company information. Open questions remain about the service's long-term viability given GitHub's API changes S45.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from star-history.com, including the homepage, comparison pages, and blog posts. Static and browser rendering rendering were used. External proof search was enabled but only verified the existence of linked results, not their content. Limitations include missing pricing and customer evidence.

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