Hotjar vs Recurly

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

Hotjar and Recurly sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (44), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Recurly is ahead of Hotjar. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Hotjar is clearly ahead of Recurly. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Recurly is ahead of Hotjar. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Hotjar is clearly ahead of Recurly. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Recurly is clearly 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. Recurly shows 1,564 stars across 53 public repos, 26 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Recurly's footprint is roughly 30.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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