diff --git a/OurUmbraco.Site/Views/Partials/Community/Home.cshtml b/OurUmbraco.Site/Views/Partials/Community/Home.cshtml
index 90510ae4..6f3c6d61 100644
--- a/OurUmbraco.Site/Views/Partials/Community/Home.cshtml
+++ b/OurUmbraco.Site/Views/Partials/Community/Home.cshtml
@@ -140,7 +140,6 @@ else
                 <div class="col-md-12">
                     <h1 class="text-center">GitHub Contributions</h1>
                     <p>
-                        Contributions to Umbraco GitHub repositories
                         <small class="link-list">
                             Contributions to default branches for
                             <a href="https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS" target="_blank" title="Umbraco-CMS">Umbraco-CMS</a>,
@@ -153,7 +152,7 @@ else
                     </p>
                 </div>
                 <div class="col-md-12">
-                    <small>GitHub contributors</small>
+                    <small>Contributions the last 12 months (number indicating accepted commits)</small>
                 </div>
 
                 <div class="col-md-12 flex forum-thread" id="github-contributors">
diff --git a/OurUmbraco/Community/Controllers/GitHubContributorController.cs b/OurUmbraco/Community/Controllers/GitHubContributorController.cs
index 3abf80a0..d32109b1 100644
--- a/OurUmbraco/Community/Controllers/GitHubContributorController.cs
+++ b/OurUmbraco/Community/Controllers/GitHubContributorController.cs
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ namespace OurUmbraco.Community.Controllers
                             }
                         }
 
-                        // filter to only include items from the last year
+                        // filter to only include items from the last year (if we ran 4.6.1 we could have used ToUnixTimeSeconds())
                         var filteredRange = DateTime.UtcNow.AddYears(-1).Subtract(new DateTime(1970, 1, 1)).TotalSeconds;
                        
                         foreach (var contrib in gitHubContributors)
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ namespace OurUmbraco.Community.Controllers
                             var contribWeeks = contrib.Weeks.Where(x => x.W >= filteredRange).ToList();
                             contrib.TotalAdditions = contribWeeks.Sum(x=>x.A);
                             contrib.TotalDeletions = contribWeeks.Sum(x=>x.D);
-                            contrib.Total = contrib.TotalAdditions + contrib.TotalDeletions;
+                            contrib.Total = contribWeeks.Sum(x => x.C);
                         }
 
                         var filteredContributors = gitHubContributors