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A comment on Introducing Libscore: A PageRank for JavaScript Libraries.

Re:Introducing Libscore: A PageRank for JavaScript Libraries by jack_jennings on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @05:27PM (#8759986)
The score simply being the number of top sites feels pretty difficult to understand in isolation. For instance, knowing that React has a libscore of 203 doesn't mean much if I don't know both that this is out of one million sites polled and the score of some other library that I might already have a vague mental picture of its popularity (i.e. compared to jQuery's 600k+).

Other than that, very interesting information to sift through.

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Re:Introducing Libscore: A PageRank for JavaScript Libraries by purpleturtle on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @05:31PM (#8760002)
Exactly. That's why we removed any mention of a "score" from the copywriting before launching. We realized how vague a score could be. We focus on site counts now, since they're raw/unfiltered data.
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