The difference between clone and unique cloner

Question

When visiting the Git clones graph on my GitHub project (Insights -> Traffic), I noticed the graph shows two other values next to the dates. That being Clones and Unique cloners.

The value of the Unique cloners amount is usually smaller than Clones amount.

I could not figure out the difference between these two values.

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 07 '22 at 12:32

GitHub will show you a graph with the total amount of clones the project has, as well as the amount of different people that have cloned the project.

As you can see in the screenshot shown below, 4 Clones is found in the bottom left corner. This number indicates the total amount of times the project has been cloned. In the middle of the bottom however, is the total amount of people that have cloned the project. In this case 3 Unique cloners.

The amount of clones and/or amount of unique cloners can also be seen when hovering over a certain date and will be shown like the image below.

The difference between clone and unique cloner

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