diff --git a/content/en/blog/2024/year-in-review.md b/content/en/blog/2024/year-in-review.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..00c509230755 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/en/blog/2024/year-in-review.md @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@ +--- +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 +--- + +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. + +## Contributions + +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. + +Overall there have been 768 contributors and 3,982 commits across 3,824 merged +pull requests since the repository was created in April, 2019. + +We thank every contributor for helping to build and improve the OpenTelemetry +website! + +## User analytics + +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. + +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. + +## Localizations + +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! + +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. + +## Information architecture changes + +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. + +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. + +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/). + +## Curious facts + +There are many statistics we can create about our project, but only some of them +are worth sharing, because they are curious: + +- 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. +- + +## People + +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! + +## Call to action + +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. diff --git a/static/refcache.json b/static/refcache.json index c5dbf18bfcaf..c8508417b69c 100644 --- a/static/refcache.json +++ b/static/refcache.json @@ -6275,6 +6275,10 @@ "StatusCode": 200, "LastSeen": "2024-01-30T06:02:13.813584-05:00" }, + "https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/pull/2427/": { + "StatusCode": 206, + "LastSeen": "2024-12-12T12:41:23.581154+01:00" + }, "https://github.com/open-telemetry/opamp-go": { "StatusCode": 200, "LastSeen": "2024-01-18T19:37:11.484137-05:00" @@ -7559,6 +7563,14 @@ "StatusCode": 200, "LastSeen": "2024-06-06T14:51:54.994687-04:00" }, + "https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/compare/2022.12...2023.11": { + "StatusCode": 206, + "LastSeen": "2024-12-12T12:41:17.513091+01:00" + }, + "https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/compare/2023.12...2024.11": { + "StatusCode": 206, + "LastSeen": "2024-12-12T12:41:19.57618+01:00" + }, "https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/fork": { "StatusCode": 200, "LastSeen": "2024-01-30T16:15:47.00387-05:00" @@ -7595,14 +7607,26 @@ "StatusCode": 200, "LastSeen": "2024-01-30T15:26:01.154768-05:00" }, + "https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/pull/5380": { + "StatusCode": 206, + "LastSeen": "2024-12-12T12:41:30.400172+01:00" + }, "https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/pull/5386/files": { "StatusCode": 200, "LastSeen": "2024-11-02T12:26:48.450866-04:00" }, + "https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/pull/5575": { + "StatusCode": 206, + "LastSeen": "2024-12-12T12:41:27.869483+01:00" + }, "https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/pulls": { "StatusCode": 200, "LastSeen": "2024-01-30T16:15:25.833527-05:00" }, + "https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/releases/tag/2022.12": { + "StatusCode": 206, + "LastSeen": "2024-12-12T12:41:14.802192+01:00" + }, "https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/security/policy": { "StatusCode": 200, "LastSeen": "2024-06-13T15:47:57.766697+02:00" @@ -7719,6 +7743,10 @@ "StatusCode": 200, "LastSeen": "2024-05-21T06:04:44.356932911Z" }, + "https://github.com/opentelemetrybot": { + "StatusCode": 206, + "LastSeen": "2024-12-12T12:41:24.59683+01:00" + }, "https://github.com/opentracing": { "StatusCode": 200, "LastSeen": "2024-01-18T19:37:06.376572-05:00"