The GitHub Stats is an external service to display your ranking based on commits, PRs, issues etc. You just simply need the URL and change the details, include it in your GitHub profile and you're done.
If you don't have any idea how it works, it is an external web app that uses GitHub data (through its API) to generate your rank. You don't need to install anything, you just simply get the URL of the app, change the details so that it's referring to your account and you're done.
https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=[yourusername]
make sure you include your private repos, &count_private=true.
Now, in order for you to display this in your profile, if ever you don't have one, make sure you create one. Create a repository with the same name as your username. It is a special repository that will appear in your profile.
so mine is: xdvrx1/xdvrx1
Make sure that you initialize it with the README.md, if not,
you should create one also.
Add description about you and this, of course, you must change the details:
<p align="left"> <img src="https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=[yourusername]&theme=tokyonight&show_icons=true&hide_border=true&count_private=true&include_all_commits=true" /> </p>
It's now embedded in your GitHub Profile! You can still change the settings. Refer to the details here.
The breakdown of the components:
const COMMITS_OFFSET = 1.65;
const CONTRIBS_OFFSET = 1.65;
const ISSUES_OFFSET = 1;
const STARS_OFFSET = 0.75;
const PRS_OFFSET = 0.5;
const FOLLOWERS_OFFSET = 0.45;
const REPO_OFFSET = 1;
this is directly from the code of the app itself, so
you want to focus on commits and contrib.
This is not to cheat an app or to fake something. Much more, this should not be interpreted as spam.
But remember, the stats of GitHub can be misleading even if a software developer is good enough.
If you only use GitHub to code and code, you would not have a good standing. GitHub encourages non-code use, always remember that. It's just like it can be used as Google Docs. That's the point.
If you really feel that you deserve that rank, then go for it.
Make sure that you turn on private commits in the API, as was instructed above, so that you can simply create a diary, for example. It will generate a lot of commits.
Another option is to simply create a tutorial website, even if it is not tech-related. Don't you know that the markdown is really for blogging back then? (Don't get me wrong, blogging is still relevant today.) It simplifies everything, even a tutorial website. Markdown is the default markup language of GitHub, particularly for the README file.
Or, if you are a writer writing stories, do that in GitHub. Others were already using GitHub for laws articles, to-do lists, music compositions, itineraries etc.
You can check this out if you are not familiar with GitHub Pages.
The Contributed To component as part of the
computation is actually your repos and
repos of others when you create pull requests, even
if they were not merged. But of course, you can't create
spam. So, in order to achieve this, you want to focus
on a pull request. It's not always about submitting
proposed changes in a code base,
even simply changing something at the
README file of others will do. What I did was
a pull request to add a Page View in a README file.
If you click the README file of others, then click
the edit button, it will automatically create a fork.
Then, edit the file and create a pull request.
You can generate more stars by forking several repos and leaving a star to each fork.
Take note, this is not the stars in GitHub when you leave a star to an external repo. This is the star that you received from your forked repos and original repos, your star to your own repo or forked repo is counted also. So, say, you fork 1k repos and you have starred them by yourself, you will still have 1k stars and it's part of the computation.
My suggestion is that you fork those small and medium-sized projects. For one, it will benefit them, they need support. And the chances are high if you want to change something even in the README that it will be accepted.
You don't need to be famous to have followers. All you need is the initiative to follow others too. It's just like building a linkedin network.
The simple rule is trying to reach out: follow others that will follow you back and for those who followed you, follow them back. The chances are high if you follow those who are willing to follow others too. My example is myself, I am not even a famous, but I already have more than 1k followers. And even though the weight is just .45, you still need an audience for your projects. That's really a good reason to pursue this.
When I started doing these things, I was shocked when I visited my Google Analytics for my site. The web traffic was good.