Countly Team vs Plausible Analytics

Countly Team (Countly is a privacy-first, AI-powered analytics and engagement platform for understanding and optimizing customer journeys across digital applications) and Plausible Analytics (Simple, open source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Plausible Analytics (rank #338) holds a narrow lead over Countly Team (rank #485) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (43 vs 38). 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), Countly Team is slightly ahead of Plausible Analytics. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Plausible Analytics is ahead of Countly Team. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Plausible Analytics is ahead of Countly Team. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Plausible Analytics is clearly ahead of Countly Team. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Countly Team is clearly ahead of Plausible Analytics.

Countly Team carries 7,804 GitHub stars across 48 public repos, with 20 repositories active in the last 90 days and 13 external contributors on record. Plausible Analytics shows 31,145 stars across 21 public repos, 7 active in the last 90 days and 23 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Plausible Analytics's footprint is roughly 4.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Countly Team is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Plausible Analytics looks better where reach 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.