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In former days project hosting sites like sourceforge.org provided detailled (download) statistics for every project. This was helpful to me as a user for finding projects that are more popular (and therefore more "secure" and futureproof). But I think this was also important for the developers of those projects.

I am new to Maven and have not found any comparable statistics, only the "Quick Stats" on Maven Central.

Does the Maven concept (and Nexus) provide detailed statistics: how much a specific artifact has been downloaded as a specific type (like jar, pom etc?). If yes, where can I find this (for example for Hibernate)?

Jonik
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    Too bad the [Maven Central top 10](http://search.maven.org/#stats) isn't very interesting since 7 out of 10 places are occupied by parts/plugins of Maven itself (or Plexus which it uses). I'd like to find stats of top Java libs, [something like in this blog post](http://blog.sonatype.com/people/2012/05/google-guava-shows-strong-growth-in-april/) except up-to-date... – Jonik Jul 26 '13 at 22:48
  • For an example of a package manager that does display download statistics on a per-package basis, check out npm (Node Package Manager). – Drew Noakes Dec 07 '14 at 17:04

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If you publish artifacts with OSS Sonatype (central Maven repo) there are download statistics available for the artifacts you publish from your account.

Note that it usually updates a few days after each month.

  1. Go to https://oss.sonatype.org
  2. Login with the account you publish artifacts with.
  3. Click "Central Statistics Repositories".

Reference: Here's a blog post describing how to access the feature.

Leif Gruenwoldt
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  • I'm publishing my open source project to Maven Central using Sonatype staging server (https://s01.oss.sonatype.org/) and there you don't get statistics - even though the button is there, it shows you nothing. It is a shame - I would have really liked to know how my project is doing. – Guss May 08 '23 at 04:54