🆚 Hakyll vs. Sphinx

📈 Sphinx is much more popular than Hakyll.
🌍 Sphinx is more popular in all countries.
⭐ Hakyll is particularly popular in Austria.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Hakyll

Sphinx

Type

Static site generator

About

Hakyll is an open-source Haskell library for generating static websites, primarily aimed at personal blogs and small-to-medium sites.

It uses an embedded domain-specific language in Haskell to define content processing rules, supports Markdown and LaTeX through 📖 Pandoc, and provides templating, tag generation, pagination, and syntax highlighting for compiled HTML output.

Sphinx is a documentation generator written and used by the Python community.

Headquarters

Zurich, Switzerland

Website

jaspervdj.be/hakyll/

sphinx-doc.org #801,673

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Sphinx static site generator is 160 times more popular than Hakyll.

Total websites

Market share

Static Site Generators

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Sphinx is more popular than Hakyll in all countries.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

France

Netherlands

Japan

Canada

Estonia

Norway

Sweden

Awards

⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Static Site Generators category.
⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Sphinx is more popular than Hakyll in all market segments.

Software/Hardware

Technical Information

Education/Reference

Technical/Business Forums

Internet Services

Business

Blogs/Wiki

Shareware/Freeware

Personal Pages

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

fsinf.at

#450,647

newartisans.com

Name

Rank

#5,480

#7,497

#7,747

#31,985

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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 3,375,483 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.