Welcome to the Open Source Business Metrics community!

Here you will find a list of recommended metrics to track and measure commercial open source projects and businesses. Feel free to read the guide, submit resources, or share the links. Have a look around and feel free to drop us a comment or idea. We would love to hear from you!

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Metrics List:

  1. [ Intro to Awareness ]
  2. [ Contributor Metrics ]
  3. [ Stars, Likes, and Subscriber Metrics ]
  4. [ Measuring traffic to your website ]
  5. [ Who is sending people to your project? ]
  6. [ How far is your reach? ]
  7. [ Measuring your social reach ]
  8. [ Intro to Adoption ]
  9. [ Download Metrics ]
  10. [ Enhanced Download MetaData ]
  11. [ New Users & Trials ]
  12. [ Official Signups ]
  13. [ User Ratios ]
  14. [ Ongoing Usage: Redownload Metrics ]
  15. [ Ongoing Usage: Sustain Long Term Usage ]
  16. [ Correlated Usage: downloads + repos ]
  17. [ Call Home Metrics ]
  18. [ Customer Metrics ]
  19. [ Customer Conversion Ratios ]
  20. [ Instance Churn ]
  21. [ Customer Advocates ]
  22. [ Predictive Churn ]
  23. [ Recap ]