Do you not find that 95% of the time it's just a blank GitHub though? The only people I've seen without that are either in academia or work on OSS in their day job in some way.
My area is tightly coupled to a few OSS projects, so we tend to attract people that are active contributors. I've never been let down in the in-person interview by someone with a strong github resume.
Same thing with GitHub activity grid. I don’t even know what it’s supposed to tell. Even if I’m writing code everyday, that doesn’t mean I’m checking it in, and even if I was, I’m not doing it on a public repo or even on a GitHub hosted repo.
I look at those but they don’t tell me much as people are often working on a template and have had help, so I can’t disentangle what is someone’s work as easily