astro
Astro is a modern site builder with web best practices, performance, and DX front-of-mind.
npm says
11,381,626
per week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
real installs
high confidence≈ 11.4M
per week
Mirror spikes and crawlers removed. CI and dependency installs still count, so this is not a head count.
noise under 1% of npm's count, so nearly all of it counts. noise real installs
Why this estimate
With JavaScript on, this lists what the filter found for this package.
Most used major version: 7, the latest one, with 72% of last week's downloads above the crawler floor. Most used single version: 7.3.8.
Snapshot from the daily build of Nov 6, 2026, last 7 days of npm data. With JavaScript on, this page recomputes it live from the npm API.
How many people use astro?
npm counted 11,381,626 downloads of astro in the last 7 days. Nobody can count people exactly, npm included: it does not record who downloaded what. After removing mirror spikes and crawlers, about 11.4M look like real installs. At this scale most of them come from CI, builds and other packages that depend on astro, so the number of people behind them is far smaller.
Is astro still maintained?
Most likely yes, going by its releases. The latest version, 7.4.7, came out on Nov 5, 2026. The last 12 months saw 116 stable releases, typically 3 days apart, plus 38 pre-releases. It was first published on Mar 13, 2021. npm lists 2 maintainers.
Is astro still used?
Downloads with publish spikes removed are up 140% over 3 months and up 1,124% over 11 months. For scale, the median of the 269 packages we track, which lean towards today's most downloaded, is up 157% over 11 months, so this one is ahead of that. Last week, 72% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 7, the latest one; the most used single version was 7.3.8, with 12%. Weekdays get 1.03× the downloads of weekends, so there is no clear work-week rhythm. Crawlers account for about 4,185 downloads a week, roughly 3 per version.
How the estimate works
- Cut the spike every new version gets from mirrors in its first days.
- Subtract the flat floor robots download from every version each week.
- Show what is left as a range, with a confidence level. It still includes CI and dependency installs, so it is not a count of people.