Gravity Forms vs Pirsch Analytics

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and Pirsch Analytics (Pirsch is a simple, privacy-friendly, open-source alternative to Google Analytics - lightweight, cookie-free and easily integrated into any website. By @emvi.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Pirsch Analytics (rank #625) holds a narrow lead over Gravity Forms (rank #668) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (33 vs 32). The gap of 1 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Gravity Forms carries 112 GitHub stars across 8 public repos, with 2 repositories active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors on record. Pirsch Analytics shows 1,203 stars across 24 public repos, 5 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Pirsch Analytics's footprint is roughly 10.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Gravity Forms is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Pirsch Analytics 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.