Hotjar vs OpenCart

Hotjar (Product Experience Insights Tools) and OpenCart (PHP based open source ecommerce platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Hotjar (rank #317) holds a narrow lead over OpenCart (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 OpenCart. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Hotjar is ahead of OpenCart. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), OpenCart is clearly ahead of Hotjar. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Hotjar is clearly ahead of OpenCart.

Hotjar carries 52 GitHub stars across 2 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. OpenCart shows 8,157 stars across 2 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 26 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but OpenCart's footprint is roughly 156.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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