Plausible Analytics vs Wistia

Plausible Analytics (Simple, open source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.) and Wistia (One place for all your team’s video-ing) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Wistia (rank #278) holds a narrow lead over Plausible Analytics (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 43). The gap of 3 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Plausible Analytics carries 31,145 GitHub stars across 21 public repos, with 7 repositories active in the last 90 days and 23 external contributors on record. Wistia shows 680 stars across 173 public repos, 23 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Plausible Analytics's footprint is roughly 45.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Plausible Analytics is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Wistia looks better where education 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.