path-is-absolute
Node.js 0.12 path.isAbsolute() ponyfill
Deprecated on npm. The maintainers' message: “This package is no longer relevant as Node.js 0.12 is unmaintained.”
npm says
128,571,580
per week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
real installs
high confidence≈ 129M
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: 1, not the latest one, with 100% of last week's downloads above the crawler floor. Most used single version: 1.0.1.
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 path-is-absolute?
npm counted 128,571,580 downloads of path-is-absolute 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 129M look like real installs. At this scale most of them come from CI, builds and other packages that depend on path-is-absolute, so the number of people behind them is far smaller.
Is path-is-absolute still maintained?
No: the latest version is marked deprecated on npm, with the message “This package is no longer relevant as Node.js 0.12 is unmaintained.”. The latest version, 2.0.0, came out on Nov 8, 2018. There were no stable releases in the last 12 months. It was first published on Feb 17, 2015. npm lists 1 maintainer.
Is path-is-absolute still used?
Downloads with publish spikes removed are up 30% over 3 months and up 90% 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, 100% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 1, not the latest one; the most used single version was 1.0.1, with 100%. Weekdays get 1.6× the downloads of weekends, which fits people at work, though CI follows the same rhythm. Crawlers account for about 144,331 downloads a week, roughly 48,110 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.