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KAYAK vs Yoast

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

KAYAK and Yoast (This is where the Yoast.com team shares its public code: from our WordPress plugins to other small projects.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Yoast (rank #209) holds a modest lead over KAYAK (rank #485) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (49 vs 38). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

KAYAK carries 3,186 GitHub stars across 72 public repos, with 4 repositories active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors on record. Yoast shows 3,439 stars across 78 public repos, 12 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors.

KAYAK is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Yoast 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricKAYAKYoast
Ranking
Overall rank#485#209
Pillars
Overall3849
Code5965
Education5970
Community3043
Reach4417
Momentum3652
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars3,1863,439
Forks4621,469
Public repos7278
Active repos (90d)412
External contributors121
Avg polish5663
Avg AI-readiness4445

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