BigCommerce vs Yoast

BigCommerce 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.

BigCommerce (rank #103) holds a narrow lead over Yoast (rank #209) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 49). The gap of 6 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

BigCommerce carries 3,505 GitHub stars across 281 public repos, with 25 repositories active in the last 90 days and 51 external contributors on record. Yoast shows 3,439 stars across 78 public repos, 12 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors.

BigCommerce is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. 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.