GoCardless vs Yoast

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

GoCardless carries 6,977 GitHub stars across 161 public repos, with 19 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. Yoast shows 3,439 stars across 78 public repos, 12 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors.

GoCardless is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Yoast looks better where code quality 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.