GitHub
GitHub is an American technology company that develops a cloud-based software development platform for source code hosting, version control, and collaborative software development.
Acquired by Microsoft in 2018, the platform also provides code review, project management, continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), security scanning, package hosting, and AI-assisted development tools, and is used by more than 180 million developers and over 4 million organizations.
- GitHub ranks #27 among the web technology companies we track.
- The company's technologies are present on 7.6% of websites.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
🔍 Overview
- 🏠 Website
- 💼 Legal name
- GitHub, Inc.
- 🏤 Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, United States
- 🗓️ Founded
- 8 February 2008 (18 years ago)
- 💼 Parent company
- 🔗 Links
📁 Technology Categories
CI/CDCode hostingCode sharingDeployment platformsDonationsIconsJavaScript librariesPackage managersUI frameworks
⚡ Technologies
We track 7 technologies owned or developed by GitHub, Inc. that are used across the web.
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,629,123 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
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