Hotjar vs Zapier

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

Zapier (rank #27) holds a modest lead over Hotjar (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (64 vs 44). The gap of 20 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Zapier is ahead of Hotjar. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Hotjar is ahead of Zapier. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Zapier is ahead of Hotjar. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Zapier is slightly ahead of Hotjar. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Zapier 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. Zapier shows 6,774 stars across 296 public repos, 13 active in the last 90 days and 22 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Zapier's footprint is roughly 130.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Hotjar is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Zapier 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.