🆚 Gridsome vs. Hexo

Type

Static site generator
Static site generator

About

Gridsome is a Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications.

It uses GraphQL as a unified data layer to source content from APIs, files, and headless CMSs, generates static HTML with Vue components, provides image optimization and code splitting, and supports plugins.

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.

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Hexo static site generator is 2 times more popular than Gridsome.
Total websites

Market share

Static Site Generators

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Hexo is more popular in China, the United States, and Japan, while Gridsome is more popular in Germany, Australia, and Poland.
China
United States
Germany
Australia
Japan
Poland
United Kingdom
France
Canada
Taiwan

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Hexo is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, software and hardware, and technical, business forums, while Gridsome is more commonly used on business, Internet services, and marketing and merchandising sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Technical/Business Forums
Marketing/Merchandising
Technical Information
Finance/Banking
Travel
Online Shopping

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#60,490
#110,031
#126,063
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Name
Rank
#13,371
#101,097
#141,588
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See also

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