🆚 GitBook vs. Hexo
- 📈 GitBook is noticeably more popular than Hexo.
- 🌎 GitBook is more popular in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Hexo is more popular in China, Japan, and Taiwan.
GitBook
HexoType
About
GitBook is a cloud-based documentation platform for creating and publishing product documentation, API references, and knowledge bases.
It provides a collaborative editor with 
Markdown and rich formatting, structured navigation and versioning, AI-powered features such as GitBook Agent and embedded AI assistants for writing help and query answering, automatic generation of 
LLMs.txt for large language models, and integrations with 
GitHub, 
GitLab and other tools.
Hexo is a 
Node.js-based static site generator that builds fast blog and documentation sites from Markdown content.
It provides more than 400 ready-to-use themes and over 500 plugins, and includes deployment tooling for platforms such as GitHub Pages, 
Netlify, and 
Vercel.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,827,502 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.