Close vs Yoast

Close (The inside sales CRM of choice for SMBs) 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 narrow lead over Close (rank #298) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (49 vs 45). The gap of 4 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Close carries 3,871 GitHub stars across 190 public repos, with 25 repositories active in the last 90 days and 10 external contributors on record. Yoast shows 3,439 stars across 78 public repos, 12 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors.

Close is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. 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.