ForestAdmin vs Matomo Analytics

ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) 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.

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a narrow lead over Matomo Analytics (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 43). The gap of 8 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

ForestAdmin carries 3,415 GitHub stars across 87 public repos, with 14 repositories active in the last 90 days and 9 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 9.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ForestAdmin is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. 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.