🆚 Astro vs. Gatsby

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.

Gatsby is an open-source static site generator built on React and Node.js that creates fast pre-rendered websites.

It supports React components, includes built-in image optimization and lazy loading, offers more than 3,000 plugins for SEO, analytics and CMS support, and integrates a GraphQL data layer to pull content from headless CMS or APIs.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Static Site Generators category.

• 🥇 Most popular in Poland in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Sweden in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in New Zealand in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Finland in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥈 Second 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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• Astro technology profile

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• Gatsby, Inc. company profile