🆚 Docusaurus vs. Jekyll

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Jekyll is three times more popular than Docusaurus.
🌎 Jekyll is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 Docusaurus is more popular in China, Greenland, and Israel.

Type

Static site generator

About

Docusaurus is a static site generator for React-powered documentation websites that uses MDX and a React-based theme system.

It provides built-in document versioning, internationalization, a flexible plugin architecture, and support for Algolia DocSearch and Typesense DocSearch.

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.

Headquarters

Menlo Park, California, United States

Website

docusaurus.io #82,361

jekyllrb.com #447,254

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Jekyll static site generator is 3 times more popular than Docusaurus.

Total websites

Market share

Static Site Generators

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Jekyll is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Docusaurus is more popular in China, Greenland, and Israel.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

China

Canada

Netherlands

Brazil

Italy

Australia

Awards

⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Static Site Generators category.
⭐ 5th most popular in the United States 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.
⭐ 4th most popular in France in the Static Site Generators category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Brazil in the Static Site Generators category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Jekyll is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, software and hardware, and Internet services, while Docusaurus is more commonly used on shareware and freeware sites.

Blogs/Wiki

Software/Hardware

Internet Services

Business

Technical Information

Technical/Business Forums

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

Games

Personal Pages