Gravity Forms vs Semrush

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and Semrush (We do love open source and have an opportunity to make it better from now.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Semrush (rank #317) holds a modest lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 32). The gap of 12 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Semrush shows 454 stars across 11 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 7 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Semrush's footprint is roughly 4.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Gravity Forms is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Semrush looks better where community 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.