Blackbird vs Yoast

Blackbird 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.

Yoast (rank #209) holds a modest lead over Blackbird (rank #728) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (49 vs 30). The gap of 19 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Blackbird carries 16 GitHub stars across 165 public repos, with 77 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 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 Yoast's footprint is roughly 214.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Blackbird is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Yoast 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.