Adobe, Inc. vs Squarespace

Adobe, Inc. (Open source from Adobe) and Squarespace both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adobe, Inc. (rank #47) holds a meaningful lead over Squarespace (rank #536) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 36). The gap of 25 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Adobe, Inc. is clearly ahead of Squarespace. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Squarespace is slightly ahead of Adobe, Inc.. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Adobe, Inc. is clearly ahead of Squarespace. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Adobe, Inc. is slightly ahead of Squarespace. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Adobe, Inc. is clearly ahead of Squarespace.

Adobe, Inc. carries 63,154 GitHub stars across 1,108 public repos, with 91 repositories active in the last 90 days and 87 external contributors on record. Squarespace shows 2,038 stars across 98 public repos, 6 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Adobe, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 31.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adobe, Inc. is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Squarespace looks better where education is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.