🆚 Astro vs. Jekyll

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.

Jekyll is a static site generator written in Ruby.

It uses the Liquid templating language, supports front-matter metadata and data files in YAML, JSON, and CSV formats, includes a plugin system with custom converters and generators, and offers incremental regeneration to speed up build times.

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Astro static site generator is 2.5 times more popular than Jekyll.
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, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Jekyll is more popular in Nepal and Luxembourg.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Japan
France
India
Brazil
Spain
Australia
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

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

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
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#3,491
#10,456
#12,723
#15,399
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See also

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