Yoast vs Zapier

Yoast (This is where the Yoast.com team shares its public code: from our WordPress plugins to other small projects.) and Zapier both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Zapier (rank #27) holds a modest lead over Yoast (rank #209) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (64 vs 49). The gap of 15 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Yoast carries 3,439 GitHub stars across 78 public repos, with 12 repositories active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors on record. Zapier shows 6,768 stars across 296 public repos, 13 active in the last 90 days and 23 external contributors.

Yoast is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Zapier 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.