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Built from public GitHub data<br>Star history and repo health for any GitHub repo.<br>Star history, growth, change frequency, contributors, bus factor, and fix-labelled changes—live, shareable, and README-ready.<br>github.com/Analyze repositoryAnalyze<br>Try<br>facebook/reactvercel/next.jszhom/donutbrowser

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Stars say it’s popular. The commit history says if it’s healthy.<br>score your repo→<br>Four readings taken from a repository's own commit history: whether anyone is still shipping, how few people carry the code, how much of the work is repair rather than new features, and whether known debt is piling up. Every number links back to the full report.<br>Health scorecard<br>reactnext.jsbundenofastapi

Reading the commit history…<br>Open the facebook/react report

What people are looking at right now<br>leaderboard→<br>Live GitHub star totals, report views, history progress, and repository-health status—straight from gitdebt’s stored data.<br>Recently viewedLive platform data<br>Loading recently viewed repositories…

Popularity, momentum, and maintenance<br>see a full report→<br>Current stars show size. Star history shows growth. Commit history shows where maintaining the code gets expensive.

Star history<br>See when attention arrived. Compare launches by calendar date or from day zero in the comparison tool.

Repository health<br>Find file change frequency, fix-labelled changes, bus factor, contributor concentration, and recent TODO/FIXME movement.

README stats<br>Embed theme-aware SVG, PNG, WebP, and GIF charts that link back to the live report.

Compare growth, not just totals<br>comparison builder→<br>Put up to eight GitHub star histories on one chart. Switch between calendar time and equal-start growth.<br>Change the question, not the data<br>Illustrative axes — no repository values<br>Calendar dateEqual start

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README stats, ready to paste<br>badge studio→<br>Add star history, health cards, and badges to any GitHub README with a theme-aware snippet.<br>One snippet, both README themes<br>The matching asset is selected by GitHub<br>Light READMEDark README

README.md<br>facebook/react<br>star history

What you paste<br>One snippet, light and dark variants behind it.<br>Cacheable image URLs; attribution stays on the link.<br>Static by default — animation is always explicit.<br>Open the badge studio

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