🆚 Hexo vs. VitePress

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.

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 1.1 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, Japan, and Taiwan, while VitePress is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
China
United States
Japan
Germany
Taiwan
Canada
United Kingdom
Russia
Finland
Sweden

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 marketing and merchandising, while VitePress is more commonly used on software and hardware, technical information, and Internet services sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Business
Technical Information
Technical/Business Forums
Internet Services
Games
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#13,371
#101,097
#141,588
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Name
Rank
#6,061
#29,061
#29,726
#42,883
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See also

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