Woo vs Yoast

Woo (The company behind WooCommerce, the open-source commerce platform for WordPress.) 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.

Woo (rank #103) holds a narrow lead over Yoast (rank #209) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 49). 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), Woo is slightly ahead of Yoast. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Yoast is clearly ahead of Woo. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Woo is slightly ahead of Yoast. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Woo is ahead of Yoast. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Woo is clearly ahead of Yoast.

Woo carries 23,045 GitHub stars across 247 public repos, with 47 repositories active in the last 90 days and 100 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 Woo's footprint is roughly 6.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Woo is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Yoast looks better where education 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.