Perk vs Yoast

Perk (We're fixing business travel.) 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 Perk (rank #372) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (49 vs 42). The gap of 7 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 Perk. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Yoast is ahead of Perk. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Yoast is slightly ahead of Perk. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Perk is ahead of Yoast. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Yoast is slightly ahead of Perk.

Perk carries 34 GitHub stars across 25 public repos, with 5 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 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 101.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Perk is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. 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.