Hotjar vs Unsplash

Hotjar (Product Experience Insights Tools) and Unsplash (Building the internet's open library of freely usable visuals. Join us 👫) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Hotjar (rank #317) holds a narrow lead over Unsplash (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 43). The gap of 1 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Hotjar is ahead of Unsplash. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Unsplash is ahead of Hotjar. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Hotjar is clearly ahead of Unsplash. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Unsplash is 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. Unsplash shows 9,930 stars across 63 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Unsplash's footprint is roughly 191.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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