LinkedIn vs Matomo Analytics

LinkedIn and Matomo Analytics (Matomo is hiring 🚀 Matomo.org/jobs MISSION: « To create, as a community, the leading open analytics platform that gives every user full control of their data ») both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

LinkedIn and Matomo Analytics sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (43), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), LinkedIn is slightly ahead of Matomo Analytics. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Matomo Analytics is ahead of LinkedIn. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), LinkedIn is clearly ahead of Matomo Analytics. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Matomo Analytics is clearly ahead of LinkedIn.

LinkedIn carries 77,785 GitHub stars across 137 public repos, with 28 repositories active in the last 90 days and 52 external contributors on record. Matomo Analytics shows 30,600 stars across 90 public repos, 46 active in the last 90 days and 34 external contributors.

LinkedIn is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Matomo Analytics 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.