🆚 Gatsby vs. MkDocs

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.

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.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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