🆚 Hexo vs. Hugo

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.

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization.

It supports Markdown content, templating, configurable taxonomies, multilingual sites, image processing, Sass and JavaScript pipelines, pretty URLs, a live-reload development server, and shortcodes to insert elements such as videos, images and social media embeds.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥇 Most popular in China in the Static Site Generators category.
• ⭐ 9th most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.

• 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Switzerland in the Static Site Generators category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Slovenia in the Static Site Generators category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• Hexo technology profile

• Hugo technology profile