🆚 Hexo vs. Jekyll

Statistics based on 3.9M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Hexo
Jekyll

Type

Static site generator
Static site generator

About

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.

Jekyll is a static site generator written in Ruby.

It uses the Liquid templating language, supports front-matter metadata and data files in YAML, JSON, and CSV formats, includes a plugin system with custom converters and generators, and offers incremental regeneration to speed up build times.

Website

hexo.io #2,631,817
jekyllrb.com #944,127

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

Static Site Generators › Rank #9
Static Site Generators › Rank #4

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Jekyll static site generator is 7 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.

Jekyll is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Hexo is more popular in China and Taiwan.
United States
China
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Netherlands
Italy
Japan
Brazil
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Jekyll is more popular than Hexo in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Business
Technical/Business Forums
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Technical Information
Games
Marketing/Merchandising
Personal Pages

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#21,137
#60,489
#128,667
#143,789
#187,036
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Name
Rank
#3,430
#11,605
#12,539
#13,750
#13,803
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See also

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