🆚 Astro vs. Jekyll

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.

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.

• ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Static Site Generators category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Static Site Generators category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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