Ahrefs vs commercetools

Ahrefs (BTW we use OCaml) and commercetools (commerce platform for customer-focused industry leaders) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

commercetools (rank #189) holds a modest lead over Ahrefs (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (50 vs 41). The gap of 9 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Ahrefs carries 1,303 GitHub stars across 171 public repos, with 28 repositories active in the last 90 days and 7 external contributors on record. commercetools shows 1,270 stars across 221 public repos, 37 active in the last 90 days and 16 external contributors.

Ahrefs is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. commercetools looks better where code quality 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.