Why order by relative growth
GitHub’s trending page favours repositories that are already large: a project with 200,000 stars can gain 500 in a day without anything having changed. Dividing the gain by the previous total puts a different kind of project at the top — the one that had 400 stars yesterday and has 1,000 today. That is usually a repository in its first days of attention.
How to use it
Treat the top of this list as a discovery feed, not as a quality ranking. Very young repositories can be unfinished, renamed or abandoned within weeks. The creation date on each repository page tells you how young, and the archive shows whether a project was already on the daily list on previous days.
The percentage is computed from two numbers GitHub publishes on the trending page. It only covers repositories that are in today’s lists; a project growing quickly without reaching GitHub trending is not seen by this site. The exact formula and its limits are on the method page.


