npm
a package manager for JavaScript
npm says
23,867,572
per week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
real installs
high confidence≈ 23.9M
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: 11, not the latest one, with 44% of last week's downloads above the crawler floor. Most used single version: 11.21.1.
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 npm?
npm counted 23,867,572 downloads of npm 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 23.9M look like real installs. At this scale most of them come from CI, builds and other packages that depend on npm, so the number of people behind them is far smaller.
Is npm still maintained?
Most likely yes, going by its releases. The latest version, 12.2.2, came out on Nov 4, 2026. The last 12 months saw 37 stable releases, typically 9 days apart, plus 4 pre-releases. It was first published on Jul 12, 2013. npm lists 4 maintainers.
Is npm still used?
Downloads with publish spikes removed are up 36% over 3 months and up 128% 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, 44% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 11, not the latest one; the most used single version was 11.21.1, with 11%. Weekdays get 1.5× the downloads of weekends, which fits people at work, though CI follows the same rhythm. Crawlers account for about 17,192 downloads a week, roughly 28 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.