Infographic
2025
A visual analysis of 1,600 articles published on the world's most active developer community.
Data collected via the official DEV.TO API, filtering articles published in 2025. The numbers below represent the platform's featured content.
Published in 2025
12.2 per article on average
34.2 per article on average
4.4 min average per article
Averages are calculated by dividing totals by the number of articles:
19,543 ÷ 1,600 = 12.2 comments/article.
The total reading time (7,084 min) equals approximately 118 hours
or 4.9 days of continuous content.
Monthly distribution of published articles. December was the most active month, with a 47% growth compared to November.
The second half of the year concentrated 67% of articles (1,013 out of 1,600). The December peak can be attributed to year-end retrospectives and 2026 planning. April was the quietest month with only 71 articles.
The 15 most used tags in articles. AI dominates with 33% presence, reflecting the artificial intelligence revolution in 2025.
The ai tag appears in 530 articles (33% of total). Adding related tags (machinelearning, llm, agents), AI content represents more than 40% of production. webdev remains strong in second place with 397 articles.
The 15 authors with most featured articles. The DEV team (jess, ben, thepracticaldev) leads with 260 combined articles - 16% of total content.
The top 3 authors are DEV team members, responsible for publishing challenges, announcements, and welcome threads. Excluding the official team, nickytonline (18 articles) would be the most prolific independent author.
Engagement champions across different categories.
"Welcome Threads" dominate comments as they are community welcome posts. For technical content with most engagement, articles about TypeScript and React stand out, generating intense debates about their pros and cons.
Transparency about how data was collected and processed.
Data obtained through the official Forem (DEV.TO) API.
Endpoint used: /api/articles
with pagination of 100 articles per request.
Only articles with published_at
in 2025 were included. The API returns "featured" articles by default,
sorted by descending popularity. Total pages processed: 20.
This infographic represents featured articles, not all content published on DEV.TO. Non-featured or unpublished articles are not included. Data collected in January 2026.