Hotjar vs Wistia

Hotjar (Product Experience Insights Tools) and Wistia (One place for all your team’s video-ing) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Wistia (rank #278) holds a narrow lead over Hotjar (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 44). The gap of 2 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 Wistia. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Hotjar is ahead of Wistia. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Hotjar is slightly ahead of Wistia. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Hotjar is clearly ahead of Wistia. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Wistia 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. Wistia shows 680 stars across 173 public repos, 23 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Wistia's footprint is roughly 13.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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