🆚 Gatsby vs. Hugo

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.

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.

• 🥇 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 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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• Gatsby technology profile
• Gatsby, Inc. company profile

• Hugo technology profile