🆚 Hexo vs. VitePress
- 📈 Hexo is noticeably more popular than VitePress.
- 🌎 Hexo is more popular in China, the United States, and Italy.
- 🌍 VitePress is more popular in Germany, Hong Kong, and Australia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this 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.
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Static Site Generators › Rank #9
Static Site Generators › Rank #13
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Hexo static site generator is 1.5 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 Italy, while VitePress is more popular in Germany, Hong Kong, and Australia.
China
United States
Japan
Germany
United Kingdom
Hong Kong
Italy
Russia
Sweden
Turkey
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Static Site Generators category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in China in the Static Site Generators category.
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.
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Astro🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.