GitHub
Cloud-hosted Git repository and developer platform providing version control, CI/CD, and collaboration tools for developers and teams.
GitHub popularity rank history
Monthly average · last 12 moA lower rank number means higher popularity. Dashed sections represent months outside the Tranco ranking.
How to read a popularity rank
The lower the number, the higher the ranking. WhoTrends uses the Tranco ranking system, which is a research-based ranking that incorporates multiple sources in order to eliminate any short-term fluctuations and bias. This is a relative ranking based on popularity.
GitHub domain registration
WHOIS record| Registered | 2007-10-09 (19 yr) |
| Expires | 2026-10-09 |
| Registrar | MarkMonitor, Inc. |
| DNSSEC | Enabled |
| Name servers | ns-520.awsdns-01.net, ns-1707.awsdns-21.co.uk, dns2.p08.nsone.net, ns-1283.awsdns-32.org |
GitHub classification
Public profile| Type | Saas |
| Industry | Software it |
| Market | BOTH |
| Monetization | subscription |
| Pricing | freemium |
| App | iOS / Android |
| Audience | software developers and engineering teams |
| Tags |
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GitHub backlink profile
Majestic| Referring subnets | 250,614 |
| Referring IPs | 621,629 |
| Majestic global rank | #10 |
| Rank within .com | #10 |
| Authority | Very High |
| As of | Oct 2026 |
About GitHub
GitHub Inc. belongs to Microsoft Corp. and falls under Microsoft Corp.'s CoreAI Engineering organization. It was established in 2008 and later purchased by Microsoft Inc. for $7.5 billion. It is regarded as the world's largest code repository and software collaboration platform.
Visitors to GitHub can use services including GitHub Copilot, which assists with coding; GitHub Actions, which facilitates workflows involving continuous integration and deployment; GitHub Codespaces, which provides a cloud-based development environment; and npm. Version control is another core component of GitHub, with repositories used to store code.
GitHub helps software developers and engineering teams host code, track and fix bugs using Issues, review code through pull requests, and manage documentation. The platform has one hundred and eighty million registered developers and serves almost all of the companies on the Fortune 100 list.
GitHub hosts billions of project repositories.