🆚 Astro vs. Hugo

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

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.

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization.

It supports Markdown content, templating, configurable taxonomies, multilingual sites, image processing, Sass and JavaScript pipelines, pretty URLs, a live-reload development server, and shortcodes to insert elements such as videos, images and social media embeds.

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Hugo static site generator is 1.1 times more popular than Astro.
Total websites

Market share

Static Site Generators

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Hugo is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Astro is more popular in Japan, Brazil, and India.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Japan
Canada
Netherlands
Brazil
India
Spain

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Hugo is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, software and hardware, and education and reference, while Astro is more commonly used on business, Internet services, and marketing and merchandising sites.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Technical/Business Forums
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Technical Information

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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