Crates / moxcms
Rust crate · real downloads · data Oct 24, 2026
moxcms downloads, and should you depend on it?
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Few direct dependents and gaining.
moxcms: only 51 crates name it directly; most of its downloads come in through image; downloads don't spike on releases.
How this verdict is decided (4 rules)
- Usage: crates.io reverse dependencies (crates that list it as a dependency): 10,000+ = foundational, 1,000+ = widely used, 100+ = established, under 100 = few direct dependents.
- Direction: the median quiet day in the last 30 days of the window against the first 30, read against the median tracked crate (the whole field moved +39% from late summer to October, so a raw trend says nothing). 10%+ ahead of the field = gaining; 10%+ behind = losing ground; otherwise steady. Steady with no release in 2+ years = quiet for years.
- Release spikes: the median release-window day against the quiet-day baseline: under 1.15x = no spike, 1.15x to 1.3x = small bumps, 1.3x or more = jumps on release days.
- Release recency: days since the newest version that was not yanked, from crates.io publish times.
release window (release day + next day)quiet dayquiet-day median · download the 89 days as CSV
The numbers in one paragraphmoxcms got 55,087,050 crates.io downloads from Jul 27, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026. 2% of them landed within 2 days of one of its 1 release. On the other 87 quiet days it got a median of 593,585 a day, about 4,155,095 a week. Capping release days at that baseline leaves 54,967,714 release-adjusted downloads for the window.
What this means if you're choosing a dependency
- You rarely add this one yourself. Only 51 crates name it directly; its downloads arrive through image.
- Actively released. 0.9.1 shipped 39 days ago (Sep 15, 2026).
- Still pre-1.0 (0.9.1). Under Cargo's semver rules a 0.x minor bump may break you, so pin the minor version (
moxcms = "0.9") and read the changelog on upgrades. - Fit check: license BSD-3-Clause OR Apache-2.0, edition 2024, needs Rust 1.89.0 or newer (from the latest version's manifest).
- Compare it by the baseline, not the raw count. 2% of its 55,087,050 downloads in the window landed within 2 days of a release; the steady number is 593,585 a day.
Alternatives that do a similar job
Crates that share its crates.io category or keywords, most similar first. Each line is the crate's own description, then how it compares on the same data.
Its place in the dependency graph
Built on moxcms
1 of the 1000 crates we track depend on it directly (biggest first).
moxcms builds on
Tracked crates its latest version (0.9.1) depends on.
What the chart says
- Weekend quiet days ran at 68% of weekday quiet days (415,472 vs 609,408). A dip that deep is the signature of work-week CI pipelines and developers building on weekdays.
- Biggest day: 1,166,005 on Oct 22, 2026, a quiet day with no release nearby.
Every number
| All-time downloads | 107,682,344 (rank #887 on crates.io by all-time downloads) |
| Downloads in the window | 55,087,050 (Jul 27, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026, 89 days) |
| Within 2 days of a release | 1,306,506 (2.4%) |
| Quiet-day median (baseline) | 593,585 a day; weekdays 609,408, weekends 415,472 |
| Release-adjusted downloads | 54,967,714 (release-window days capped at the baseline) |
| Baseline rank | #582 of the 1000 crates we track |
| Quiet-day trend | +68% raw, +21% against the median tracked crate (+39%) |
| Releases in the window | 1 |
| Versions published, ever | 36 |
| Latest version | 0.9.1, published Sep 15, 2026 (license BSD-3-Clause OR Apache-2.0, edition 2024, MSRV 1.89.0) |
| First published | Feb 26, 2025 |
| Reverse dependencies | 51 |
Releases in the window
Each one opens a 2-day release window on the chart.
| Version | Published | Downloads that version got (lifetime) |
|---|---|---|
| 0.9.1 | Sep 15, 2026 | 149,232 |
How we compute this
crates.io counts every download, including CI runners, mirrors and bots that fetch each new version, so raw counts run high (why, in The Manual). We split the last 89 days into release windows (the day a version of moxcms was published, plus the next day) and quiet days, and use the median quiet day as the baseline: an upper bound on steady use, never a head count. The method and data come from our study of 90 days of crates.io data from 69 crates, featured in This Week in Rust #674; check any crate live with the real-downloads checker.
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Sources
- Daily downloads: crates.io API, /crates/moxcms/downloads (last 90 days, all versions), fetched Oct 24, 2026.
- Versions and publish times: crates.io API, /crates/moxcms/versions, same fetch.
- Reverse dependencies: crates.io reverse dependencies, same fetch. Dependency edges between tracked crates: each crate's default version, crates.io API.
- Fetched politely (one request every 2 seconds, identified User-Agent) per the crates.io data access policy. Data is crates.io's; the release-window split, baseline and verdict rules are ours, CC BY 4.0.
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