🆚 Astro vs. Hugo

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.

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 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 Germany in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Switzerland in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Slovenia in the Static Site Generators category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• Astro technology profile

• Hugo technology profile