Coursera vs Yoast

Coursera 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 #210) holds a modest lead over Coursera (rank #726) 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 Coursera. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Yoast is clearly ahead of Coursera. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Yoast is clearly ahead of Coursera. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Coursera is clearly ahead of Yoast. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Yoast is clearly ahead of Coursera.

Coursera carries 1,367 GitHub stars across 81 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors on record. Yoast shows 3,440 stars across 78 public repos, 12 active in the last 90 days and 22 external contributors.

Coursera is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. 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.