Formspark vs Yoast

Formspark 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 Formspark (rank #372) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (49 vs 42). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Formspark carries 67 GitHub stars across 8 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Yoast shows 3,439 stars across 78 public repos, 12 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Yoast's footprint is roughly 51.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Formspark is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. Yoast 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.