🆚 Hexo vs. VitePress

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Static site generator
Static site generator

About

Hexo is a Node.js-powered static site generator.

VitePress is a Vue-powered static site generator and successor to VuePress, built on top of the Vite build tool.

It provides a Markdown-first workflow with Vue components, fast development updates through Vite's module system, automatic routing and sidebar generation, support for TypeScript and JSX in Markdown, built-in search indexing, a theming system, and static HTML output with minimal client-side JavaScript.

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Hexo static site generator is 1.6 times more popular than VitePress.
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, the United States, and Russia, while VitePress is more popular in Germany, Hong Kong, and Australia.
China
United States
Japan
Germany
United Kingdom
Russia
Italy
Hong Kong
Finland
Turkey

Awards

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 travel, while VitePress is more commonly used on software and hardware, technical information, and Internet services sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Business
Technical Information
Internet Services
Technical/Business Forums
Education/Reference
Games
Travel
Marketing/Merchandising

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#13,371
#141,588
#151,878
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Name
Rank
#6,061
#29,061
#29,726
#42,883
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