The latest articles on DEV Community by HijelHub (@hijelhub). https://dev.to/hijelhub https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3869286%2F4e1438b8-793b-44b0-bf44-0dd03151fe63.png https://dev.to/hijelhub en HijelHub Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:57:40 +0000 https://dev.to/hijelhub/a-better-no-cost-github-analytics-dashboard-5d3b https://dev.to/hijelhub/a-better-no-cost-github-analytics-dashboard-5d3b <p>To satisfy my proclivity of watching numbers go up... I built this GitHub Dashboard so that I can view all the Data, from all my repositories on a single page.<br> While there are solutions like this already available, they are either paid services, limited versions, dead repo's, or just not what I was looking for. </p> <p>My solution runs entirely on GitHub's Free Tier and is completely automated. No external database, web host, or monthly fees required.</p> <p>You can enter the password "guest" to view the Live Demo Dashboard at <a href="https://hijelhub.github.io/Demo_Dashboard/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://hijelhub.github.io/Demo_Dashboard/</a></p> <p>To get your own Dashboard, fork yourself a copy of the main repo at <a href="https://github.com/HijelHub/HijelHub_Dashboard" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/HijelHub/HijelHub_Dashboard</a> and set it up (Setup takes ~5min)</p> <h2> Why? </h2> <ul> <li>GitHub will only store 14 days of traffic analytics</li> <li>GitHub has no unified analytics page, you must check each repo separately.</li> <li>Other Dashboards do not offer Data Encryption for increased privacy.</li> <li>Existing solutions require a monthly fee, external databases or infrastructure.</li> </ul> <h2> How? </h2> <p>HijelHub_Dashboard works in two parts. On the back-end, a GitHub Actions workflow runs once a day (or as often as you set) on a schedule, using a personal access token (saved as an Actions secret) to fetch traffic view, clone, referrer, fork, pull request, and issue data from the GitHub API for every repo you've listed in <code>config.json</code>. (You must have write access for any repo you add here)</p> <p>It combines new data with what's already stored in the <code>data/</code> folder, skipping duplicate dates for views and clones, and builds up a running list of all referrers and data points over time then commits the updated JSON files back to your repo.</p> <p>On the front-end, GitHub Pages serves a single-page dashboard that loads those JSON files, decrypts them in the browser (if you've turned on the optional AES-256-GCM encryption), and displays the analytics data with interactive <code>Chart.js</code> line charts, referrer tables, fork/PR/issue counts, and release download counts.</p> <p>The whole thing... the scheduled data collection, storage, and hosting runs entirely on GitHub's free tier with no external server or database.</p> <p>You can also customize the look and feel of your HijelHub_Dashboard by editing the <code>theme.json</code> file.</p> <p>Please let me know if you have any feature ideas, find any bugs, or just want to say "Hi!".</p> showdev github analytics productivity