🆚 Eleventy vs. Hugo

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.

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization.

It supports Markdown content, templating, configurable taxonomies, multilingual sites, image processing, Sass and JavaScript pipelines, pretty URLs, a live-reload development server, and shortcodes to insert elements such as videos, images and social media embeds.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🔥 11st 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 France in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Switzerland in the Static Site Generators category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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