🆚 Eleventy vs. Hexo

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Static site generator
Static site generator

About

Eleventy is a high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript.

It generates zero client-side JavaScript by default, has built-in support for Markdown, HTML, Nunjucks, Liquid, and other templating languages via plugins, is zero-config to start and can be extended with flexible configuration options, and allows incremental builds that operate only on changed files.

Hexo is a Node.js-powered static site generator.

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Hexo static site generator is 1.3 times more popular than Eleventy.
Total websites

Market share

Static Site Generators

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Hexo is more popular in China, the United States, and Sweden, while Eleventy is more popular in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan.
China
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Japan
France
Canada
Netherlands
Russia
Sweden

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Hexo is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, and travel, while Eleventy is more commonly used on Internet services, business, and technical, business forums sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Business
Software/Hardware
Technical/Business Forums
Technical Information
Entertainment
Personal Pages
Education/Reference
Games

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#8,219
#18,077
#26,399
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Rank
#13,371
#141,588
#151,878
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