37signals vs Yoast

37signals (HEY! It's in Basecamp!) and Yoast (This is where the Yoast.com team shares its public code: from our WordPress plugins to other small projects.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

37signals (rank #122) holds a narrow lead over Yoast (rank #209) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 49). The gap of 5 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Yoast is slightly ahead of 37signals. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Yoast is ahead of 37signals. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), 37signals is ahead of Yoast. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), 37signals is clearly ahead of Yoast. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Yoast is slightly ahead of 37signals.

37signals carries 113,857 GitHub stars across 236 public repos, with 48 repositories active in the last 90 days and 298 external contributors on record. Yoast shows 3,439 stars across 78 public repos, 12 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but 37signals's footprint is roughly 33.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

37signals is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Yoast 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.