gatsby
Blazing fast modern site generator for React
npm says
285,368
per week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
real installs
high confidence≈ 284K–285K
per week
best guess 285K
Mirror spikes and crawlers removed. CI and dependency installs still count, so this is not a head count.
About 0% of npm's count looks like noise. noise real installs
Why this estimate
With JavaScript on, this lists what the filter found for this package.
Most used major version: 5, the latest one, with 56% of last week's downloads above the crawler floor. Most used single version: 5.16.1.
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 gatsby?
npm counted 285,368 downloads of gatsby 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 284K–285K look like real installs. Noise is under 1% of npm's count. What remains still includes CI and installs as a dependency of other packages.
Is gatsby still maintained?
Less clear: the last release is more than six months old. The latest version, 5.16.1, came out on Feb 10, 2026. The last 12 months saw 2 stable releases, plus 5 pre-releases. It was first published on May 21, 2015. npm lists 3 maintainers.
Is gatsby still used?
Downloads with publish spikes removed are about flat over 3 months and down 9% 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 behind that. Last week, 56% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 5, the latest one; the most used single version was 5.16.1, with 23%. Weekdays get 1.04× the downloads of weekends, so there is no clear work-week rhythm. Crawlers account for about 5,988 downloads a week, roughly 2 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.