Matomo Analytics vs Open edX

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 ») and Open edX (The community-driven, open-source project powering edX.org and thousands of other online education sites around the world.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Matomo Analytics (rank #338) holds a narrow lead over Open edX (rank #372) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (43 vs 42). The gap of 1 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Matomo Analytics carries 30,600 GitHub stars across 90 public repos, with 46 repositories active in the last 90 days and 34 external contributors on record. Open edX shows 10,654 stars across 186 public repos, 100 active in the last 90 days and 91 external contributors.

Matomo Analytics is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Open edX looks better where code quality 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.