diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 3ea1829f54c502..01e703ce14c207 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -14,3 +14,6 @@
 
 # Directories with vendored code.
 packages/edit-site/lib/** linguist-vendored
+
+# Flag docs directory as documentation for GitHub stats.
+docs/** linguist-documentation