Hotjar vs Spreedly

Hotjar (Product Experience Insights Tools) and Spreedly (Simple and secure PCI compliance and payment forwarding.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Hotjar (rank #317) holds a modest lead over Spreedly (rank #728) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 30). The gap of 14 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Hotjar carries 52 GitHub stars across 2 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Spreedly shows 418 stars across 67 public repos, 10 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Spreedly's footprint is roughly 8.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Hotjar is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Spreedly makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.