Community¶

Our community has been great this year. I have been really happy to see a few people submit multiple patches and features. This year, we had:

• 39 people who committed code
• 550 commits
• 271 issues - 218 closed, 53 open

Many thanks to Wraithan in particular, who has taken on a large role in helping maintain the site and servers.

If there is anyone else out there who would like to help with operations, especially outside of US timezones, please let me know.

Page Views¶

Our growth in page views has always been crazy to me. It was somewhere in mid-2011 that Read the Docs went from a hobby project, into something projects depended on. This growth has never stopped, and today a large number of important projects depend on Read the Docs.

Our stats:

• 65 Million Page Views
• 13 Million Unique Visitors

For context, these numbers are similar to what MDN has.

I think an image shows this a bit better than words:

Site Stats¶

Our pageviews are driven mainly by 100 or so high traffic sites. We have a lot of small projects that are up on Read the Docs too that we love.

The stats:

• 7949 projects
• 11679 users
• 1040182 builds

Funding¶

Our hosting costs are sponsored by Rackspace, which is fantastically generous of them.

Development on Read the Docs is funded by the community on Gittip. I am very grateful for the support that the community has given the project over the years. It is great validation that people value the service you are providing, even when you give it away for free.

The stats:

• $167/wk currently
• 114 people giving money

Conclusion¶

2013 has been a great year for Read the Docs. We have made a lot of progress, and I think 2014 will be even better.

We are working on a number of new features to expand the user base, and make the site more approachable. We forward to continuing to improve the documentation ecosystem in the new year.