Yoast vs Zeplin

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

Yoast (rank #209) holds a modest lead over Zeplin (rank #430) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (49 vs 40). The gap of 9 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 Zeplin. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Zeplin is slightly ahead of Yoast. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Yoast is ahead of Zeplin. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Zeplin is slightly ahead of Yoast. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Yoast is clearly ahead of Zeplin.

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. Zeplin shows 1,460 stars across 57 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors.

Yoast is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Zeplin 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.