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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +layout: post |
| 3 | +title: "Monthly Stats: 2026 April" |
| 4 | +date: 2026-05-20 |
| 5 | +categories: News |
| 6 | +tags: statistics transparency |
| 7 | +image: assets/images/2025/stephen-dawson-qwtCeJ5cLYs-unsplash-1024.webp |
| 8 | +image_caption: "Photo by Stephen Dawson on Unsplash" |
| 9 | +author: gasparnagy |
| 10 | +--- |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +We believe transparency is important to build a trustworthy open-source community, so we regularly share our usage and sustainability statistics. |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +Below are some statistics we found interesting (in parentheses, you can see the figures for the previous month). If you are interested in any other figures, please let us know. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +## Detailed Statistics for April 2026 |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +### Usage |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +* Website & Docs visitors: **6.9K** (8.1K) |
| 21 | +* Website & Docs page views: **30K** (36K) |
| 22 | +* Top 5 Docs pages: **Docs Home, Quickstart, Gherkin reference, IDE Setup, SpecFlow Migration** (Docs Home, Quickstart, Gherkin reference, SpecFlow Migration, IDE Setup) |
| 23 | +* NuGet package downloads (Reqnroll package, last 6 weeks): **2.58M** (February: 2.11M) |
| 24 | +* NuGet package downloads compared to SpecFlow NuGet downloads (based on last 6 weeks download): **121%** (February: 96%) |
| 25 | +* Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by VS extension: **451K** (474K) |
| 26 | +* Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by Rider extension: **2.2K** (3.7K) |
| 27 | +* Upgrades to the latest VS extension: **n/a** (February: 11.8K) |
| 28 | +* Installations of VS extension (all versions, without upgrades): **127K** (February: 108K) |
| 29 | +* Top 3 countries (from VS extension usage): **India, USA, United Kingdom** (India, USA, United Kingdom) |
| 30 | +* Reqnroll projects (.NET projects executed by Reqnroll): **33K** (31K) |
| 31 | +* Reqnroll test executions: **14.9M** (15M) |
| 32 | +* Reqnroll test executions per project per month: **avg: 455, median: 43** (avg: 478, median: 44) |
| 33 | +* Ratio of CI/CD executions: **47%** (47%) |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +### .NET Framework Usage |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +The list shows the .NET Framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects. |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +1. .NET 8.0: **49%** (53%) |
| 40 | +2. .NET 10.0: **33%** (28%) |
| 41 | +3. .NET 9.0: **8%** (9%) |
| 42 | +4. .NET 4.8: **8%** (8%) |
| 43 | +5. .NET 6.0: **2%** (2%) |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +Only frameworks with usage above 1% are shown. |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +### Test Execution Framework Usage |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +The list shows the test execution framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects. |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +1. NUnit: **44%** (43%) |
| 52 | +2. xUnit: **29%** (30%) |
| 53 | +3. MsTest: **21%** (21%) |
| 54 | +4. xUnit v3: **6.9%** (5.9%) |
| 55 | +5. TUnit: **0.6%** (0.4%) |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +### CI/CD Server Usage |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +The list shows the CI/CD server usage distribution of Reqnroll projects that were executed in CI. |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +1. Azure Pipelines: **63%** (65%) |
| 62 | +2. GitHub Actions: **15%** (13%) |
| 63 | +3. GitLab CI: **8%** (8%) |
| 64 | +4. Jenkins: **7%** (6%) |
| 65 | +5. TeamCity: **4%** (4%) |
| 66 | +6. Atlassian Bamboo: **2%** (1%) |
| 67 | +7. BrowserStack: **1%** (1%) |
| 68 | +8. Bitbucket Pipelines: **1%** (1%) |
| 69 | +9. Octopus Deploy: **1%** (1%) |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | +### Formatters |
| 73 | + |
| 74 | +The new reporting infrastructure (called [formatters](https://docs.reqnroll.net/latest/reporting/reqnroll-formatters.html)) has been introduced with the v3 release. |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | +* [HTML](https://docs.reqnroll.net/latest/reporting/reqnroll-formatters.html#html-formatter) reports generated: 316K / 1093 projects (310K / 1048) |
| 77 | +* [Message](https://docs.reqnroll.net/latest/reporting/reqnroll-formatters.html#cucumber-messages-formatter) reports generated: 109K / 331 projects (120K / 313) |
| 78 | +* [Expressium](https://github.com/ExpressiumOSS/Expressium.LivingDoc) reports generated: 16K / 90 projects (26K / 118) |
| 79 | +* Ratio of projects used formatters: 4.8% (4.7%) |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +### Visual Studio version usage |
| 82 | + |
| 83 | +1. Visual Studio 2022: **57%** (62%) |
| 84 | + * Most used version: 17.14 (17.14) |
| 85 | + * Oldest version used, by at least 1%: 17.12 (17.12) |
| 86 | +2. Visual Studio 2026: **43%** (38%) |
| 87 | + * Most used version: 18.4 (18.3) |
| 88 | + * Oldest version used, by at least 1%: VS2026 preview (VS2026 preview) |
| 89 | + |
| 90 | +### Sustainability |
| 91 | + |
| 92 | +* Active paid [subscriptions](https://reqnroll.net/support/): **3** (3) |
| 93 | +* [Sponsors](https://reqnroll.net/sponsorship/): **Gold: 1 (Spec Solutions), Silver: 2 (Info Support, LambdaTest), Supporters: 4** (1/2/4) |
| 94 | +* Yearly budget: **~$2800** ($2800) |
| 95 | +* My time: **4hrs** (5hrs) |
| 96 | + |
| 97 | +📢 I encourage everyone to invite contributors for a coffee 🍵. That could help pay our hosting bills or even enable us to organize an in-person design workshop to better align our goals (and drink those coffees, of course. Maybe a beer 🍺 too...). [Become a sponsor](https://github.com/sponsors/reqnroll). |
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