OpenCart vs Sprout Social

OpenCart (PHP based open source ecommerce platform) and Sprout Social both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

OpenCart and Sprout Social sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (41), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

OpenCart carries 8,157 GitHub stars across 2 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 26 external contributors on record. Sprout Social shows 313 stars across 68 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but OpenCart's footprint is roughly 26.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

OpenCart is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Sprout Social 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.