alex/what-happens-when

An attempt to answer the age old interview question "What happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter?"

43.4k stars · 5.7k forks

This repo isn't software code, so code checks are limited.

Caution

Caution: no human commits in a year, and most questions go unanswered.

Why

What would change this

Maintenance

Complete

Dormant

Human commits, 30 days
0
Human commits, 90 days
0
Human commits, 365 days
0
Bot share of commits, 365 days
0%
Last commit
Feb 8, 2022 (4 years ago)
Last human commit
Feb 8, 2022 (4 years ago)
Authors, 90 days
0
Last release
none found
Median PR merge time
1 hour

Responsiveness: of 8 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete
Owner
Personal account
Commits sampled
100 since Feb 4, 2015
Authors for half of commits
3
Authors for 80% of commits
15
Contributors
68

Top committers

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Stars per week, 2013-11-03 to 2026-10-11. 40 weeks overlap a burst.Peak 2.9k a week2013-11-032026-10-11
Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

License

Now
No license found
A year ago
Not known

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 2.4 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: alex/what-happens-when

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Earlier verdicts

Computed 15 hours ago · method 2026.10.2