🆚 Gatsby vs. Read the Docs

Type

Static site generator
Deployment platform

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.

Read the Docs is a continuous documentation deployment platform that automatically builds, versions, and hosts software documentation from Git repositories.

It integrates with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket to rebuild documentation on every commit, supports tools like Sphinx, MkDocs, and Jupyter Book, hosts multiple versions with full-text search and downloadable PDF and EPUB formats, and offers previews for pull requests.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States
Portland, Oregon, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Community, free for open source, ad supported, open source
Community Gold
(ad-free)
$5/month
Business Advanced$150/month
Business Pro$250/month

Categories

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Gatsby static site generator is 28 times more popular than Read the Docs.
Total websites

Market share

Static Site Generators

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Gatsby is more popular than Read the Docs in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Poland
Australia
France
Canada
Italy
Japan
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

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

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,016
#1,244
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Name
Rank
#5,480
#37,231
#39,890
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See also

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