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| title: '2024: The Year in Review for opentelemetry.io' | ||
| linkTitle: 'Year in Review' | ||
| date: 2024-12-12 # Put the current date, we will keep the date updated until your PR is merged | ||
| author: | ||
| >- # If you have only one author, then add the single name on this line in quotes. | ||
| [Severin Neumann](https://github.com/svrnm) (Cisco), | ||
| sig: SIG Comms | ||
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| As 2024 comes to a close, we'd like to take the time to take a look back at it, | ||
| and share some insights and accomplishments of SIG Communcation, which is | ||
| responsible for running this website, blog and documentation. | ||
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| ## Contributions | ||
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| In | ||
| [December 2022](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/releases/tag/2022.12) | ||
| we started publishing monthly releases of our website on GitHub, to have a | ||
| regular summary of contributions. Based on this data we can do a long time | ||
| comparison on contributions, and if we look at the time between | ||
| [December, 2022 and November, 2023](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/compare/2022.12...2023.11) | ||
| and compare it with | ||
| [December, 2023 to November, 2024](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/compare/2023.12...2024.11), | ||
| we see an upwards trend in commits from 1,011 to 1,340, and contributors from 92 | ||
| to 106. The only metric which has gone down is the number of files changed, | ||
| which was 1,864 previously and went down to 1,624. | ||
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| Overall there have been 768 contributors and 3,982 commits across 3,824 merged | ||
| pull requests since the repository was created in April, 2019. | ||
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| We thank every contributor for helping to build and improve the OpenTelemetry | ||
| website! | ||
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| ## User analytics | ||
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| Based on | ||
| [data collected with Google Analytics](https://lookerstudio.google.com/s/tSTKxK1ECeU) | ||
| the [opentelemetry.io](/) website had over 12 million views across 4 million | ||
| sessions this year. The year before it was visited with almost 10 million viewes | ||
| across over 3 million sessions, which means there have been ~16% more views | ||
| year-over-year. | ||
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| With almost 2,9 million views the [landing page](/) is the most popular page, | ||
| followed by the [Collector page](/docs/collector) with over 400,000 views. | ||
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| ## Localizations | ||
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| A major accomplishment this year was, that | ||
| [we went multilingual](/blog/2024/docs-localized/). Localization teams are | ||
| translating pages from English to [Chinese](/zh), [French](/fr), | ||
| [Japanese](/ja), [Portuguese](/pt) and [Spanish](/es), with a total sum of 122 | ||
| pages translated so far! | ||
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| We thank everyone who has contributed translations, and we are excited to be | ||
| able to provide these language options that improve the OpenTelemetry user | ||
| experience. | ||
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| ## Information architecture changes | ||
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| Another big change this year was a change in our information architecture: we | ||
| renamed the documentation section `Instrumentations` to `Languages APIs & SDKs` | ||
| to make it clearer to end-users what to expect in that section. We also moved | ||
| out the pages around `Automatic Instrumentation` into a section called | ||
| `Zero-code instrumentation`, to provide a clearer separation of using the APIs | ||
| and SDKs for instrumentation, and using instrumentation tools like a Java agent, | ||
| that add OpenTelemetry from the outside. | ||
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| As a follow up to that change, the Java SIG updated the overall structure of | ||
| their API and SDK documentation, to fit better into this new architecture. | ||
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| For the next year, we plan to rework the way how we introduce OpenTelemetry to | ||
| new starters, if you are interested in helping, you can | ||
| [join us here](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/pull/2427/). | ||
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| ## Curious facts | ||
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| There are many statistics we can create about our project, but only some of them | ||
| are worth sharing, because they are curious: | ||
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| - The most changed content file is `content/en/docs/collector/_index.md` with 91 | ||
| updates since the file was created. | ||
| - With 511 commits, 26,765 additions and 9,734 deletions the | ||
| [opentelemetrybot](https://github.com/opentelemetrybot) is our top-4 | ||
| contributor. | ||
| - The word OpenTelemetry occurs 7313 times in the source files of the English | ||
| website. With that it is the 3rd most frequent word right after 'the' and | ||
| 'to'. The world 'collector' is used 3186 times and at the 11th place! | ||
| - The PR with the most comments this year and also for all time is | ||
| [Blog post for OpenTelemetry Generative AI updates](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/pull/5575), | ||
| with 150 comments. Close 2nd place goes to | ||
| [[pt] Translate /pt/docs/languages/go/instrumentation](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/pull/5380) | ||
| with 146 comments. | ||
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| ## People | ||
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| Having 1000+ commits per year, means that there have been equally many PRs. For | ||
| each PR we need reviews, that ensure, that the added content fits into our | ||
| project, is correct and written in good and plain language. We are lucky to have | ||
| many contributors, who are taking on that responsibility: there are approvers | ||
| and maintainers of SIGs, that co-own parts of our website, there are approvers | ||
| for the different localizations, and there are approvers and maintainers in SIG | ||
| Communications. A big shout out to all of them for making 2024 a successful | ||
| year, and we are looking forward to work with you all in 2025! | ||
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| ## Call to action | ||
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| If you are an OpenTelemetry end-user or contributor, or if you are just | ||
| enthusiastic about our project, we would be excited to welcome you as a | ||
| contributor to the website! You can help by raising issues and providing PRs! To | ||
| get started, come by in our channel at the CNCF slack or join one of our SIG | ||
| meetings, every other Monday at 10 PST. | ||
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