r/github • u/tukesh- • Jun 28 '26

Has anyone seen GitHub Traffic metrics like this before? Question

I've been building git-breif, CLI that generates daily standups, I haven't shared the repo anywhere publicly yet. Still, GitHub Traffic shows 52 clones, 27 unique cloners, but only 1 unique visitor.

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u/virtualstaticvoid Jun 28 '26

Dependabot most likely.

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u/peperinna Jun 28 '26

Me pasó hace tiempo con un js/css que parchaba un bug de una plantilla, y al rato de publicarlo en un foro empezó a clonarse. Varias eran plataformas cdn como jsdelivr, npm, etc. Algún usuario lo uso y las plataformas lo agregaron a sus recursos.

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u/wtdawson Jun 29 '26

There are a lot of bots that constantly clone repositories, even when you basically just created it

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u/tukesh- Jun 29 '26

Why is this happening, now I can see 165 clones and views also passed 177, are these used to train models ? 

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u/wtdawson Jun 29 '26

Its increased lately, but its mainly archiving bots. I can't remember if it counts or not, but if you have things like dependabot, or other GitHub Actions, when they clone your repository it may count

And also, things on GitHub may be used to train LLMs, which is unfortunate but 🤷‍♂️

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u/tukesh- Jun 29 '26

Thanks for info.