Add February 2026 monthly statistics with detailed usage and sustainability data

Author: gasparnagy

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+layout: post
+title: "Monthly Stats: 2026 February"
+date: 2026-03-02
+categories: News
+tags: statistics transparency
+image: assets/images/2025/stephen-dawson-qwtCeJ5cLYs-unsplash-1024.webp
+image_caption: "Photo by Stephen Dawson on Unsplash"
+author: gasparnagy
+---
+
+We believe transparency is important to build a trustworthy open-source community, so we regularly share our usage and sustainability statistics.
+
+Below are some statistics we found interesting (in parentheses, you can see the figures for the previous month). If you are interested in any other figures, please let us know.
+
+## Detailed Statistics for February 2026
+
+### Usage
+
+* Website & Docs visitors: **7.8K** (7.0K)
+* Website & Docs page views: **38K** (37K)
+* Top 5 Docs pages: **Docs Home, Quickstart, Gherkin reference, SpecFlow Migration, IDE Setup** (Quickstart, Docs Home, SpecFlow Migration, Gherkin reference, IDE Setup)
+* NuGet package downloads (Reqnroll package, last 6 weeks): **2.11M** (2.13M)
+* NuGet package downloads compared to SpecFlow NuGet downloads (based on last 6 weeks download): **96%** (99%)
+* Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by VS extension: **418K** (393K)
+* Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by Rider extension: **5.8K** (5.3K)
+* Upgrades to the latest VS extension: **11.8K** (12.9K)
+* Installations of VS extension (all versions, without upgrades): **108K** (105K)
+* Top 3 countries (from VS extension usage): **India, USA, United Kingdom** (India, USA, United Kingdom)
+* Reqnroll projects (.NET projects executed by Reqnroll): **28K** (26K)
+* Reqnroll test executions: **13.1M** (12.4M)
+* Reqnroll test executions per project per month: **avg: 468, median: 43** (avg: 478, median: 47)
+* Ratio of CI/CD executions: **45%** (46%)
+
+### .NET Framework Usage
+
+The list shows the .NET Framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.
+
+1. .NET 8.0: **57%** (61%)
+2. .NET 10.0: **21%** (15%)
+3. .NET 9.0: **11%** (13%)
+4. .NET 4.8: **8%** (7%)
+5. .NET 6.0: **2%** (2%)
+
+Only frameworks with usage above 1% are shown.
+
+### Test Execution Framework Usage
+
+The list shows the test execution framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.
+
+1. NUnit: **43%** (45%)
+2. xUnit: **30%** (29%)
+3. MsTest: **22%** (23%)
+4. xUnit v3: **4.3%** (2.5%)
+5. TUnit: **0.3%** (0.3%)
+
+### CI/CD Server Usage
+
+The list shows the CI/CD server usage distribution of Reqnroll projects that were executed in CI.
+
+1. Azure Pipelines: **68%** (68%)
+2. GitHub Actions: **12%** (11%)
+3. GitLab CI: **7%** (7%)
+4. Jenkins: **6%** (6%)
+5. TeamCity: **4%** (4%)
+6. Atlassian Bamboo: **2%** (2%)
+7. BrowserStack: **1%** (1%)
+8. Bitbucket Pipelines: **1%** (1%)
+9. Octopus Deploy: **1%** (1%)
+
+
+### Formatters
+
+The new reporting infrastructure (called [formatters](https://docs.reqnroll.net/latest/reporting/reqnroll-formatters.html)) has been introduced with the v3 release.
+
+* [HTML](https://docs.reqnroll.net/latest/reporting/reqnroll-formatters.html#html-formatter) reports generated: 241K / 974 projects (200K / 799)
+* [Message](https://docs.reqnroll.net/latest/reporting/reqnroll-formatters.html#cucumber-messages-formatter) reports generated: 78K / 283 projects (61K / 245)
+* [Expressium](https://github.com/ExpressiumOSS/Expressium.LivingDoc) reports generated: 16K / 90 projects (12K / 78)
+* Ratio of projects used formatters: 4.8% (4.4%)
+
+### Visual Studio version usage
+
+1. Visual Studio 2022: **69%** (75%)
+   * Most used version: 17.14 (17.14) 
+   * Oldest version used, by at least 1%: 17.10 (17.10)
+2. Visual Studio 2026: **30%** (25%)
+   * Most used version: 18.2 (18.1) 
+   * Oldest version used, by at least 1%: VS2026 preview (VS2026 preview)
+
+### Sustainability
+
+* Active paid [subscriptions](https://reqnroll.net/support/): **3** (3)
+* [Sponsors](https://reqnroll.net/sponsorship/): **Gold: 1 (Spec Solutions), Silver: 2 (Info Support, LambdaTest), Supporters: 4** (1/2/4)
+* Yearly budget: **~$2800** ($2800)
+* My time: **9hrs** (60hrs)
+
+📢 I encourage everyone to invite contributors for a coffee 🍵. That could help pay our hosting bills or even enable us to organize an in-person design workshop to better align our goals (and drink those coffees, of course. Maybe a beer 🍺 too...). [Become a sponsor](https://github.com/sponsors/reqnroll).