Duolingo vs Matomo Analytics

Duolingo and Matomo Analytics (Matomo is hiring 🚀 Matomo.org/jobs MISSION: « To create, as a community, the leading open analytics platform that gives every user full control of their data ») both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Duolingo and Matomo Analytics sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (43), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

Duolingo carries 1,721 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors on record. Matomo Analytics shows 30,600 stars across 90 public repos, 46 active in the last 90 days and 34 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Matomo Analytics's footprint is roughly 17.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Duolingo is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Matomo Analytics looks better where momentum 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.