How Risefinder measures a rise

Risefinder compares public measurements over time. It shows what changed, over which period, and where the evidence came from—without turning movement into a prediction.

Data through: 15 September 2026
Entities tracked: 64,143
Sources live: 32
Days tracked: 50

01/

What is measured

19 public lists

Movement, not size

The question is not “What is biggest?” It is “What changed?”

A current number on its own cannot show momentum. Risefinder stores repeated observations, then compares like with like across daily, weekly and monthly windows.

Rank

Traffic, backlinks and charts

Adoption

Stars, installs, downloads and sales

Attention

Votes, ratings and reviews

Funding filings and Crunchbase rank are displayed as separate market signals. A funding event is an event, not proof that a company is growing; the label stays explicit so the reader can decide what it means.

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The calculation

Four steps

Step 01

Collect a snapshot

Risefinder records public measurements such as rank, stars, downloads, ratings, reviews, installs, sales and funding events.

Step 02

Find a valid baseline

The latest reading is matched with a real earlier reading for the selected 1, 7 or 30 day window. Missing history is never treated as zero.

Step 03

Measure the change

Counts use percentage growth. Rankings use positions climbed, because a smaller rank number is better.

Step 04

Publish the evidence

Qualified movers are ordered by the measured change and published with both readings, observation dates, a description and a source link.

Count-based signals

(latest − earlier) ÷ earlier × 100

Used for stars, downloads, ratings, reviews, installs, sales and other cumulative counts.

Rank-based signals

earlier rank − latest rank

Used when a lower position is better. A move from 90 to 40 is shown as 50 positions climbed.

03/

Coverage

Know the denominator

Published universes

Whole-list comparisons

Majestic and Tranco publish large ranked website lists. Risefinder can compare the published universe on both dates, so their results describe movement across those lists rather than only a hand-picked watchlist.

Majestic · Tranco

Watched populations

Tracked-set comparisons

Platforms such as GitHub and the app stores do not publish a complete daily universe. Those lists rank the entities Risefinder has already discovered and tracked. They are evidence of movement inside the watched set, not a claim about every item on the platform.

17 tracked-source lists

Majestic

Websites · backlink rank

Tranco

Websites · traffic rank

GitHub

Repositories · stars

Hacker News

Articles · points

npm / PyPI

Packages · weekly downloads

Hugging Face

Models · downloads

App Store charts

Apps · chart position

App Store ratings

Apps · ratings

Google Play

Apps · reviews

WordPress

Plugins · ratings

Chrome Store

Extensions · ratings

Shopify

Store apps · reviews

Product Hunt

Launches · votes

Atlassian

Marketplace apps · installs

HubSpot

Marketplace apps · installs

Notion

Integrations · installs

Google Workspace

Marketplace add-ons · ratings

WooCommerce

Store extensions · reviews

CodeCanyon

Scripts & plugins · sales

04/

Publication controls

What must be true

A real comparison

A baseline must fall inside the requested window, with at most three days of tolerance for a missed collection run.

A meaningful starting size

Each count metric has a minimum baseline, so tiny denominators cannot turn a trivial change into an enormous percentage.

Relevance and safety gates

Obvious spam, parked domains, duplicates, unsafe material and candidates outside the publication criteria are withheld.

Reviewed descriptions

Candidates without a sufficiently clear editorial description stay in review instead of publishing with placeholder copy.

History is preserved

Snapshots are retained over time. Published category and entity pages keep earlier editions visible instead of silently replacing them.

Source-level transparency

Every list names its metric and links back to the public source, so readers can inspect what the movement represents.

What a riser means

A published metric increased over the stated window and passed the controls for that source.

What it does not mean

It is not proof of revenue, product quality, future performance or an investment recommendation. It is a reason to investigate.

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