🆚 Gatsby vs. MkDocs

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.

MkDocs is an open-source static site generator for building project documentation from Markdown files with a simple configuration-driven workflow.

It uses a single YAML configuration file to define navigation and site settings, includes a built-in development server with live reloading, supports theming and plugins, and provides one-command deployment to GitHub Pages.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States
Brighton, United Kingdom

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Gatsby static site generator is 12 times more popular than MkDocs.
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 Poland, while MkDocs is more popular in Saint Helena and Reunion.
United States
United Kingdom
Poland
Germany
France
Australia
Sweden
Japan
Canada
Italy

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Gatsby is more popular than MkDocs in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Education/Reference
Finance/Banking
Online Shopping
Travel
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,016
#1,244
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Name
Rank
#30,903
#54,106
#57,081
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See also

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