GitHub statistics not working

Question

I'm not sure where to ask this, if this is not the place feel free to close the post, but here's whats going on. A mate of mine has his repository on GitHub, but for some reason the language statistics aren't showing. I'm not sure why this is happening. Any ideas? Here's the repository

Answer 1

The GitHub language detection is based on linguist (as I described in this answer).

• The list of file extension analyzed is in lib/linguist/languages.yml
• The list of files ignored is in lib/linguist/vendor.yml

In your case, your js/css/json files could be:

• too small to trigger that analysis
• or too recent for that analysis to be completed

I suggest to wait another day before raising a ticket to GitHub support.

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Update a few hours later: I suspect the language stats are only updated once a day, as they now are present on the OP's GitHub repo:

This is still the case in 2017, with pchaigno's comment:
(Paul Chaignon is one of the main contributors on the linguist project)

The language detection job (Linguist) is actually running as a background, low-priority job.
So it may take some time to update. Can be a few minutes, or a day.

You can see an example in "Paths not excluded from Github language statistics", where Paul suggests a way to debug how linguist applies to your repo.