🆚 Hexo vs. Pelican
- 📈 Hexo is noticeably more popular than Pelican.
- 🌍 Hexo is more popular in China, Japan, and Taiwan.
- 🌎 Pelican is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Hexo
PelicanType
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.
HTML
RSS
Amazon S3Headquarters
United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Static Site Generators › Rank #9
Static Site Generators › Rank #15
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Hexo static site generator is 1.6 times more popular than Pelican.
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, Japan, and Taiwan, while Pelican is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands.
China
United States
Germany
Japan
Netherlands
Taiwan
Canada
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Hexo is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, business, and software and hardware, while Pelican is more commonly used on technical, business forums sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Technical/Business Forums
Business
Software/Hardware
Internet Services
Technical Information
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Travel
Personal Pages
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.