Hotjar vs Yext

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

Hotjar (rank #317) holds a narrow lead over Yext (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 37). The gap of 7 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 Yext. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Hotjar is clearly ahead of Yext. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Yext is slightly ahead of Hotjar. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Hotjar is clearly ahead of Yext.

Hotjar carries 52 GitHub stars across 2 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Yext shows 296 stars across 171 public repos, 12 active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Yext's footprint is roughly 5.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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