TikTok vs Yoast

TikTok (Inspire creativity and bring joy.) 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 TikTok (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (49 vs 31). The gap of 18 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 TikTok. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Yoast is clearly ahead of TikTok. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Yoast is slightly ahead of TikTok. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), TikTok is clearly ahead of Yoast. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Yoast is clearly ahead of TikTok.

TikTok carries 1,463 GitHub stars across 25 public repos, with 7 repositories active in the last 90 days and 10 external contributors on record. Yoast shows 3,439 stars across 78 public repos, 12 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors.

TikTok 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.