Blackbird vs Matomo Analytics

Blackbird and Matomo Analytics (Matomo is hiring 🚀 Matomo.org/jobs MISSION: « To create, as a community, the leading open analytics platform that gives every user full control of their data ») both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Matomo Analytics (rank #338) holds a modest lead over Blackbird (rank #728) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (43 vs 30). The gap of 13 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Blackbird carries 16 GitHub stars across 165 public repos, with 77 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors on record. Matomo Analytics shows 30,600 stars across 90 public repos, 46 active in the last 90 days and 34 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Matomo Analytics's footprint is roughly 1912.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Blackbird is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Matomo Analytics 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.