🆚 Docusaurus vs. Sphinx
- 📈 Docusaurus is twice as popular as Sphinx.
- 🌎 Docusaurus is more popular in the United States, China, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Sphinx is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and Japan.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
DocusaurusType
Static site generator
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.
Sphinx is a documentation generator written and used by the Python community.
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Static Site Generators › Rank #5
Static Site Generators › Rank #8
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Docusaurus static site generator is 2.3 times more popular than Sphinx.
Total websites
Market share
Static Site Generators
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Docusaurus is more popular in the United States, China, and the United Kingdom, while Sphinx is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and Japan.
United States
Germany
China
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Australia
Japan
Canada
Switzerland
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.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Static Site Generators category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Docusaurus is more popular among sites focused on software and hardware, Internet services, and business, while Sphinx is more commonly used on technical information, technical, business forums, and education and reference sites.
Software/Hardware
Technical Information
Internet Services
Business
Technical/Business Forums
Education/Reference
Shareware/Freeware
Blogs/Wiki
Games
Personal Pages
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Meta company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.