🆚 Gatsby vs. Hexo
- 📈 Gatsby is much more popular than Hexo.
- 🌎 Gatsby is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Hexo is more popular in China and Isle of Man.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Static site generator
Static site generator
About
Gatsby is an open-source static site generator built on 
React and 
Node.js that creates fast pre-rendered websites.
It supports React components, includes built-in image optimization and lazy loading, offers more than 3,000 plugins for SEO, analytics and CMS support, and integrates a 
GraphQL data layer to pull content from headless CMS or APIs.
Hexo is a Node.js-powered static site generator.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Static Site Generators › Rank #2
Static Site Generators › Rank #9
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Gatsby static site generator is 17 times more popular than Hexo.
Total websites
Market share
Static Site Generators
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Gatsby is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Hexo is more popular in China and Isle of Man.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Poland
Australia
France
China
Canada
Italy
Japan
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Static Site Generators category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Poland in the Static Site Generators category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Static Site Generators category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Static Site Generators category.
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Static Site Generators category.
- ⭐ 9th 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.
Gatsby is more popular than Hexo in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Finance/Banking
Online Shopping
Travel
Entertainment
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
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Docusaurus
VitePress
Gridsome🗃️ 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 3,370,405 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.