🆚 Hexo vs. Hugo
- 📈 Hugo is much more popular than Hexo.
- 🌎 Hugo is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Hexo is more popular in China.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
HugoType
Static site generator
Static site generator
About
Hexo is a 
Node.js-powered static site generator.
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.
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Static Site Generators › Rank #9
Static Site Generators › Rank #3
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Hugo static site generator is 15 times more popular than Hexo.
Total websites
Market share
Static Site Generators
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Hugo is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Hexo is more popular in China.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
China
Canada
Japan
Netherlands
Switzerland
Italy
Awards
- 🥇 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 France 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.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Hugo is more popular than Hexo in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Software/Hardware
Internet Services
Technical/Business Forums
Education/Reference
Technical Information
Marketing/Merchandising
Games
Personal Pages
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Gridsome
Jekyll
Docusaurus
MkDocs🗃️ 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.