Unbounce vs Yoast

Unbounce 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 Unbounce (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (49 vs 35). The gap of 14 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 Unbounce. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Yoast is slightly ahead of Unbounce. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Yoast is clearly ahead of Unbounce. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Unbounce is ahead of Yoast. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Yoast is clearly ahead of Unbounce.

Unbounce carries 179 GitHub stars across 35 public repos, with 6 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 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 19.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Unbounce is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Yoast looks better where community 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.