🆚 Astro vs. Hexo
- 📈 Astro is much more popular than Hexo.
- 🌎 Astro is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan.
- 🌍 Hexo is more popular in China.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
AstroType
Static site generator
Static site generator
About
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.
Hexo is a 
Node.js-powered static site generator.
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Static Site Generators › Rank #1
Static Site Generators › Rank #9
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Astro static site generator is 17 times more popular than Hexo.
Total websites
Market share
Static Site Generators
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Astro is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan, while Hexo is more popular in China.
United States
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
China
India
Brazil
France
Spain
Australia
Awards
- 🥇 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.
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Static Site Generators category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Astro is more popular than Hexo in all market segments.
Business
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Software/Hardware
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Health
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Gridsome🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,370,405 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.