🆚 Gatsby vs. Jekyll

📈 Gatsby is twice as popular as Jekyll.
🌎 Gatsby is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 Jekyll is more popular in Nepal, Isle of Man, and Venezuela.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Gatsby

Jekyll

Type

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.

Jekyll is a static site generator written in Ruby.

It uses the Liquid templating language, supports front-matter metadata and data files in YAML, JSON, and CSV formats, includes a plugin system with custom converters and generators, and offers incremental regeneration to speed up build times.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

gatsbyjs.com #549,134

jekyllrb.com #447,254

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Gatsby static site generator is 2.5 times more popular than Jekyll.

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 Jekyll is more popular in Nepal, Isle of Man, and Venezuela.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

Poland

Australia

Canada

Italy

Netherlands

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.

⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.
⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Static Site Generators category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Static Site Generators category.
⭐ 4th most popular in France in the Static Site Generators category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Brazil in the Static Site Generators category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Gatsby is more popular among sites focused on business, Internet services, and marketing and merchandising, while Jekyll is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, technical information, and technical, business forums sites.

Business

Internet Services

Marketing/Merchandising

Software/Hardware

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Finance/Banking

Online Shopping

Entertainment

Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#94

#1,016

#1,244

#1,474

#1,556

Name

Rank

#2,326

#3,491

#10,456

#12,723

#15,399