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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: '2024: The Year in Review for opentelemetry.io' |
| 3 | +linkTitle: 'Year in Review' |
| 4 | +date: 2024-12-12 # Put the current date, we will keep the date updated until your PR is merged |
| 5 | +author: |
| 6 | + >- # If you have only one author, then add the single name on this line in quotes. |
| 7 | + [Severin Neumann](https://github.com/svrnm) (Cisco), |
| 8 | +sig: SIG Comms |
| 9 | +--- |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +As 2024 comes to a close, we'd like to take the time to take a look back at it, |
| 12 | +and share some insights and accomplishments of SIG Communcation, which is |
| 13 | +responsible for running this website, blog and documentation. |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +## Contributions |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +In |
| 18 | +[December 2022](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/releases/tag/2022.12) |
| 19 | +we started publishing monthly releases of our website on GitHub, to have a |
| 20 | +regular summary of contributions. Based on this data we can do a long time |
| 21 | +comparison on contributions, and if we look at the time between |
| 22 | +[December, 2022 and November, 2023](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/compare/2022.12...2023.11) |
| 23 | +and compare it with |
| 24 | +[December, 2023 to November, 2024](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/compare/2023.12...2024.11), |
| 25 | +we see an upwards trend in commits from 1,011 to 1,340, and contributors from 92 |
| 26 | +to 106. The only metric which has gone down is the number of files changed, |
| 27 | +which was 1,864 previously and went down to 1,624. |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +Overall there have been 768 contributors and 3,982 commits across 3,824 merged |
| 30 | +pull requests since the repository was created in April, 2019. |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +We thank every contributor for helping to build and improve the OpenTelemetry |
| 33 | +website! |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +## User analytics |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +Based on |
| 38 | +[data collected with Google Analytics](https://lookerstudio.google.com/s/tSTKxK1ECeU) |
| 39 | +the [opentelemetry.io](/) website had over 12 million views across 4 million |
| 40 | +sessions this year. The year before it was visited with almost 10 million viewes |
| 41 | +across over 3 million sessions, which means there have been ~16% more views |
| 42 | +year-over-year. |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +With almost 2,9 million views the [landing page](/) is the most popular page, |
| 45 | +followed by the [Collector page](/docs/collector) with over 400,000 views. |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +## Localizations |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +A major accomplishment this year was, that |
| 50 | +[we went multilingual](/blog/2024/docs-localized/). Localization teams are |
| 51 | +translating pages from English to [Chinese](/zh), [French](/fr), |
| 52 | +[Japanese](/ja), [Portuguese](/pt) and [Spanish](/es), with a total sum of 122 |
| 53 | +pages translated so far! |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | +We thank everyone who has contributed translations, and we are excited to be |
| 56 | +able to provide these language options that improve the OpenTelemetry user |
| 57 | +experience. |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +## Information architecture changes |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +Another big change this year was a change in our information architecture: we |
| 62 | +renamed the documentation section `Instrumentations` to `Languages APIs & SDKs` |
| 63 | +to make it clearer to end-users what to expect in that section. We also moved |
| 64 | +out the pages around `Automatic Instrumentation` into a section called |
| 65 | +`Zero-code instrumentation`, to provide a clearer separation of using the APIs |
| 66 | +and SDKs for instrumentation, and using instrumentation tools like a Java agent, |
| 67 | +that add OpenTelemetry from the outside. |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +As a follow up to that change, the Java SIG updated the overall structure of |
| 70 | +their API and SDK documentation, to fit better into this new architecture. |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | +For the next year, we plan to rework the way how we introduce OpenTelemetry to |
| 73 | +new starters, if you are interested in helping, you can |
| 74 | +[join us here](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/pull/2427/). |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | +## Curious facts |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | +There are many statistics we can create about our project, but only some of them |
| 79 | +are worth sharing, because they are curious: |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +- The most changed content file is `content/en/docs/collector/_index.md` with 91 |
| 82 | + updates since the file was created. |
| 83 | +- With 511 commits, 26,765 additions and 9,734 deletions the |
| 84 | + [opentelemetrybot](https://github.com/opentelemetrybot) is our top-4 |
| 85 | + contributor. |
| 86 | +- The word OpenTelemetry occurs 7313 times in the source files of the English |
| 87 | + website. With that it is the 3rd most frequent word right after 'the' and |
| 88 | + 'to'. The world 'collector' is used 3186 times and at the 11th place! |
| 89 | +- The PR with the most comments this year and also for all time is |
| 90 | + [Blog post for OpenTelemetry Generative AI updates](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/pull/5575), |
| 91 | + with 150 comments. Close 2nd place goes to |
| 92 | + [[pt] Translate /pt/docs/languages/go/instrumentation](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/pull/5380) |
| 93 | + with 146 comments. |
| 94 | +- |
| 95 | + |
| 96 | +## People |
| 97 | + |
| 98 | +Having 1000+ commits per year, means that there have been equally many PRs. For |
| 99 | +each PR we need reviews, that ensure, that the added content fits into our |
| 100 | +project, is correct and written in good and plain language. We are lucky to have |
| 101 | +many contributors, who are taking on that responsibility: there are approvers |
| 102 | +and maintainers of SIGs, that co-own parts of our website, there are approvers |
| 103 | +for the different localizations, and there are approvers and maintainers in SIG |
| 104 | +Communications. A big shout out to all of them for making 2024 a successful |
| 105 | +year, and we are looking forward to work with you all in 2025! |
| 106 | + |
| 107 | +## Call to action |
| 108 | + |
| 109 | +If you are an OpenTelemetry end-user or contributor, or if you are just |
| 110 | +enthusiastic about our project, we would be excited to welcome you as a |
| 111 | +contributor to the website! You can help by raising issues and providing PRs! To |
| 112 | +get started, come by in our channel at the CNCF slack or join one of our SIG |
| 113 | +meetings, every other Monday at 10 PST. |
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