Skyscanner vs Uptime.com

Skyscanner and Uptime.com (Uptime.com is an industry-leading website monitoring solution.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Skyscanner (rank #209) holds a modest lead over Uptime.com (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (49 vs 33). The gap of 16 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Skyscanner carries 8,167 GitHub stars across 86 public repos, with 18 repositories active in the last 90 days and 39 external contributors on record. Uptime.com shows 35 stars across 9 public repos, 6 active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Skyscanner's footprint is roughly 233.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Skyscanner is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Uptime.com looks better where reach 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.