🆚 GitHub Pages vs. Read the Docs
- 📈 GitHub Pages is much more popular than Read the Docs.
- 🌍 GitHub Pages is more popular in all countries.
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About
GitHub Pages is a static site hosting service that takes 
HTML, 
CSS, and 
JavaScript files straight from a repository on 
GitHub.
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.
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Pricing
(ad-free)$5/month
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Malta in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Iran in the Deployment Platforms category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in the United States in the Deployment Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Codeberg Pages
Bitbucket Cloud
Docusaurus
GitBook
Scalar🗃️ 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 3,370,405 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.