---
title: "10K curl downloads per year"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/10k-curl-downloads-per-year-tewsnuld1
source_url: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/03/09/10k-curl-downloads-per-year/
type: article
source: "daniel.haxx.se"
published: 2026-03-09T22:35:42.121Z
updated: 2026-03-09T22:35:58.445Z
tags: ["open-source", "curl"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 3
comments: 0
language: en
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# 10K curl downloads per year

**[daniel.haxx.se](https://daily.dev/sources/danielhaxxse)** · 2 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Daniel Stenberg, curl's creator, calls out the Linux Foundation's new 'Insights' platform for reporting that curl was downloaded only 10,467 times in the past year. He contrasts this absurd figure with real-world data: ~250,000 tarball downloads/month from curl.se, 400,000–700,000 Docker pulls/day, ~32,000 git clones/day, plus countless installs via Linux/BSD distros, bundled in apps/devices, and pre-installed on every Windows and macOS system. The post highlights how the Insights platform's metrics are fundamentally flawed and misleading for widely-used open source projects.

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