Plausible Analytics vs Yoast

Plausible Analytics (Simple, open source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.) 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 Plausible 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 Plausible Analytics. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Yoast is slightly ahead of Plausible Analytics. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Plausible Analytics is ahead of Yoast. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Plausible Analytics is clearly ahead of Yoast. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Yoast is ahead of Plausible Analytics.

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. 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 Plausible Analytics's footprint is roughly 9.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Plausible Analytics is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Yoast 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.