Rust crate owner · data Oct 24, 2026
mheffner: Rust crates and real downloads
Every crate mheffner can publish on crates.io, among the top 1000. mheffner on GitHub · on crates.io
Short answerMike Heffner (crates.io mheffner) owns 1 of the 1000 most-downloaded Rust crates. Together they get about 290,896 real downloads a day on quiet days (release-day spikes removed), rank #434 of the 492 owners we track. The biggest is sketches-ddsketch at 290,896 a day with 19 crates depending on it. 1 shipped a release in the last 90 days; 0 are gaining on the field and 0 losing ground.
Their crates, by real downloads
| Crate | Real downloads a day | Dependents | Trend vs field | Last release | crates.io rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sketches-ddsketch Pulled in | 290,896 | 19 | +5% | 3mo | #921 |
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How we count
Owners: crates.io owners API (users only; teams are not listed), fetched Oct 24, 2026. Real downloads a day = the median day with no release that day or the day before, per crate, summed. Trend = last 30 days against the first 30, read against the median tracked crate. Method: our crates.io study.
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