Matomo Analytics vs Yoast

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 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 narrow lead over Matomo Analytics (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (49 vs 43). The gap of 6 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Yoast shows 3,439 stars across 78 public repos, 12 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Matomo Analytics's footprint is roughly 8.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Matomo Analytics is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Yoast 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.