Open Source Contributions

Your Contributions page shows your Open Source Contributions: the work GitHub counts on your profile, limited to other people's open-source projects.

What countsCopy Anchor Link

We start from what GitHub itself counts as a contribution:

Like on GitHub, each one counts as 1: a day with 4 commits is 4 contributions.

Then we keep only the ones made in a repository that is:

1. Public. Private repositories aren't open source.
2. Not a fork.
3. Not owned by your own account. Contributing means working on someone else's project. Repositories of organizations count, even if you're a member or an admin: maintaining freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp is real open-source work.
4. Under an OSI-approved license, as detected by GitHub (MIT, Apache-2.0, GPL-3.0, MPL-2.0, BSD-3-Clause, …). A public repository without a license is "all rights reserved", not open source.

Why your total is lower than on GitHubCopy Anchor Link

GitHub's graph also counts contributions to private repositories, to your own projects, and to repositories without an open-source license. We don't, so your total here is usually lower.

The Not counted section at the bottom of your Contributions page lists what was left out and why: "120 contributions in your own repositories", "42 contributions in repositories without a license", and so on. Only you can see it.

GitHub only tells us how many private contributions you made, never where: we don't store anything else about them.

Which day a contribution counts forCopy Anchor Link

Contributions fall on the same day as on GitHub's graph:

• Commits count on the date of the commit itself, in the time zone it was made in.
• Everything else counts on its date in UTC.

Weeks run Sunday to Saturday, as on GitHub.

How it's kept up to dateCopy Anchor Link

• When you sign up, we fetch every year since your GitHub account was created, newest first. It takes a minute or two; older years follow in the background.
• The current year is refreshed every 6 hours, and when you open your dashboard if the last refresh is more than 15 minutes old.
• Past years are refreshed once a month, to pick up late changes.
• Repositories are re-checked every week. If one changes its license, becomes private or is transferred to a new owner, your counts are updated: contributions to a project you transferred to an organization start counting.

Contributions that disappear from GitHub (a deleted issue, rewritten history) disappear here at the next refresh.

The Contributions pageCopy Anchor Link

• The graph: one square per day, darker for busier days. Hover a square for its count, or use "Show as a table".
• The year picker: the last 12 months (the default) or any year since your GitHub account was created. The year is in the address (?year=2025), so you can share a link to it.
• Your streak, a breakdown by type and by repository (with its license), and your recently merged pull requests.
• Not counted: what was left out, and why.