Orca Security vs Yoast

Orca Security 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 Orca Security (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (49 vs 35). The gap of 14 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Orca Security carries 230 GitHub stars across 35 public repos, with 17 repositories active in the last 90 days and 12 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 Yoast's footprint is roughly 15.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Orca Security 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.