Popular company profiles and the GitHub traffic charts

I’m always interested to see if and how the remote-jobs repository is popular. I’ve looked on GitHub at the Insights > Traffic tab quite a few times, and tweeted previously about it.

I wanted to know exactly what “views” and “unique visitors” meant when there is only a 14 day window shown.

2.5K views, wut?!

“Is that in the 2 week period, surely not… * counts individual days * …oh ” and “I wonder if those uniques are a tally?”

So I asked GitHub support, and sure enough, those numbers are _only_ for the period shown. Yes, if someone comes back like every 3 weeks, they are shown as a unique for each count, but still, this is humbling to me.

Those top four are consistent. The reddit ones are a bunch of threads which change over time but the way traffic is counted, it is per domain. The fastcompany link is a cool blog post about remote work – “The Digital Nomad’s Guide To Working From Anywhere On Earth” from Feb this year. The remainder change at times.

This is what I’d like to focus on at times and dig into how useful this site can be. 19 different people have viewed &yet‘s profile over the past 14 days, 11 for 10up, and the same for Mapbox. I mean, &yet might get a bump since they are the first company listed so it could be people checking out the format for the profiles.

The search term is odd, that hyperlink is just `https://github.com/remoteintech/remote-jobs/search`, last time I checked it had someone’s name!

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