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(I believe these numbers vary from the ones I posted in Our upvoting patterns compare poorly to the other religion StackExchange sites; let's change this! since they latter includes deleted posts.)

1. Question rate: Islam.SE's rate of questions does not meet the "10 questions per day" rule of thumb for site graduation (of which there's some exceptions), but is comparable to Philosophy.SE when they launched, and the rate is growing.

2. Post quality: Unlike Philosophy.SE, Islam.SE is not getting many highly upvoted posts. Currently, we're getting slightly fewer posts with positive score. We don't really have experts that I'm aware of, but we have a growing number of users who are capable of producing decent content; Philosophy.SE has some philosophy PhD students.

3. Traffic: We have around 3 times the traffic of Philosophy.SE, but we have less activity (around 70%).

4. User reputation and moderation: We don't have as many higher-reputation users as Philosophy.SE, but it's not too big of a difference. (We're well behind both Christianity.SE and Judaism.SE though.) The moderators of the two sites seem approximately equally active.

5. Site self-moderation: Like Islam.SE, Philosophy.SE has diamond moderators using the diamond hammer to close questions. Islam.SE's meta is more active than Philosophy.SE's meta. There are longer comment threads on Philosophy.SE. It looks like Philosophy.SE's privilege thresholds are yet to be increased.

1. Question rate: Islam.SE's rate of questions does not meet the "10 questions per day" rule of thumb for site graduation (of which there's some exceptions), but is comparable to Philosophy.SE when they launched, and the rate is growing.

2. Post quality: Unlike Philosophy.SE, Islam.SE is not getting many highly upvoted posts. Currently, we're getting slightly fewer posts with positive score. We don't really have experts that I'm aware of, but we have a growing number of users who are capable of producing decent content; Philosophy.SE has some philosophy PhD students.

3. Traffic: We have around 3 times the traffic of Philosophy.SE, but we have less activity (around 70%).

4. User reputation and moderation: We don't have as many higher-reputation users as Philosophy.SE, but it's not too big of a difference. (We're well behind both Christianity.SE and Judaism.SE though.) The moderators of the two sites seem approximately equally active.

5. Site self-moderation: Like Islam.SE, Philosophy.SE has diamond moderators using the diamond hammer to close questions. Islam.SE's meta is more active than Philosophy.SE's meta. There are longer comment threads on Philosophy.SE. It looks like Philosophy.SE's privilege thresholds are yet to be increased (this occurs in Phase 2 of graduation).

More statistics:

• Number of body edits: 18679 (Islam.SE) vs. 23046 (Philosophy.SE)
• Number of tag edits: 4550 (Islam.SE) vs. 2443 (Philosophy.SE)
• Average number of comments per post: 1.36 (Islam.SE) vs. 2.49 (Philosophy.SE)

Review queue activity (where factor diff. is the number for Islam.SE vs. the number of Philosophy.SE) computing using a data explorer query:

                   Islam.SE    Philosophy.SE    factor diff.
suggested-edits       3306        1705             1.94
close                 1118        1410             0.79
low-quality-posts      838         587             1.43
first-posts           4506        4718             0.96
late-answers          1461        1052             1.39
reopen                 113         282             0.40

And after restricting to 2017:

                   Islam.SE    Philosophy.SE    factor diff.
suggested-edits        184          78             2.36
close                  144         217             0.66
low-quality-posts      102          59             1.73
first-posts            499         411             1.21
late-answers           194         109             1.78
reopen                  19          44             0.43