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JSON

Rank #37 with 3 captured signals across 2 sources.

JSON is a cooling trend driven by developer activity with 3 signals across 2 sources (strongest on Npm).

Total score38.1
Movement-5
Momentum0.0%
First seen17 Mar 2026

About

What is JSON?

Proposed web cryptography standard

JSON Web Token is a proposed Internet standard for creating data with optional signature and/or optional encryption whose payload holds JSON that asserts some number of claims. The tokens are signed either using a private secret or a public/private key.

Read more on Wikipedia

History

Score trajectory

Dashed line shows a medium-confidence projection using SES smoothing.

Score

Component breakdown

Platform intelligence

Source-by-source breakdown

2 sources · 3 signals
developer (2)search (1)knowledge (1)analytics (1)
16.4 pts estimated contribution
Stack Overflow questions
all time
SO question growth
month-over-month
SO questions (30 days)
last 30 days
Evidence (1)
developer · value 30.9 · 12 Mar 2026
Developer 10.4 · Diversity 6.0Latest healthy fetch kept 45 of 45 items

Why now

Why is JSON trending?

Identity

Aliases & duplicates

Tracked aliases
json
JSON

Opportunity

What you can do with it

Rising
Composite30%
Discovery28%
SEO28%
Content15%
Product52%
Investment25%
Limited actionability signals

Prediction

Breakout outlook

Rising · 65% confidenceScore accelerating (+17.0/run) · Recently emerged (<24h) · High base score (38.1)
Next 5 runs · Medium confidence · SES smoothingSES smoothing · 23.8% backtest error
44.2 to 44.2 projected

Audience

Who and where this seems relevant

DeveloperAudience segment
1 signals

Related

Adjacent trends

Geo

Where it is showing up

No location signals yet.