Calculate how often your team ships deployments to production over time.
Deployment Frequency is one of the four key DORA metrics, measuring how often an organization successfully releases to production. This calculator normalizes any input period to a common per-day rate and classifies it against the DORA performance tiers: Elite teams deploy on-demand, multiple times per day; High performers deploy between once per day and once per week; Medium performers deploy between once per week and once per month; Low performers deploy less often than monthly.
deploymentsPerDay = deploymentsPerPeriod / periodDays
On-demand deployment, typically multiple times per day, is the Elite tier in Google's State of DevOps DORA research.
No — it specifically measures how often code successfully reaches production, not how often developers commit or open pull requests.
Shipping frequently only reflects healthy delivery practice if failure rate stays low — the two metrics are meant to be read together to distinguish 'fast and safe' from 'fast and risky' delivery.
Smaller batch sizes, trunk-based development, feature flags, comprehensive automated testing, and progressive delivery (canary/blue-green) are the standard levers for increasing frequency without raising risk.