Hotjar vs Onfido

Hotjar (Product Experience Insights Tools) and Onfido both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Hotjar (rank #317) holds a narrow lead over Onfido (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 41). The gap of 3 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Hotjar carries 52 GitHub stars across 2 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Onfido shows 1,268 stars across 85 public repos, 14 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Onfido's footprint is roughly 24.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Hotjar is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Onfido 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.