🆚 Astro vs. Eleventy

Astro is a web build tool optimized for creating fast, content-driven websites using server-rendered HTML and an Islands architecture for partial hydration.

It supports UI components from React, Vue, Svelte, and other frameworks, includes built-in content collections with type safety, ships zero JavaScript by default, and provides incremental content caching with flexible deployment modes, including hybrid static and SSR output.

Eleventy is a high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript.

It generates zero client-side JavaScript by default, has built-in support for Markdown, HTML, Nunjucks, Liquid, and other templating languages via plugins, is zero-config to start and can be extended with flexible configuration options, and allows incremental builds that operate only on changed files.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in India in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Static Site Generators category.

• 🔥 11st most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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