🆚 Hexo vs. Zola

📈 Hexo is much more popular than Zola.
🌎 Hexo is more popular in China, the United States, and Taiwan.
🌍 Zola is more popular in the United Kingdom, France, and Iceland.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Hexo

Zola

Type

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.

Zola is a fast static site generator written in Rust.

Website

hexo.io #214,341

getzola.org #281,972

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Hexo static site generator is 7 times more popular than Zola.

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 Taiwan, while Zola is more popular in the United Kingdom, France, and Iceland.

China

United States

Taiwan

Japan

Germany

Canada

Sweden

United Kingdom

France

Iceland

Awards

🥇 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 than Zola in all market segments.

Blogs/Wiki

Business

Technical/Business Forums

Software/Hardware

Internet Services

Technical Information

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Personal Pages

Online Shopping

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#13,371

#20,359

#64,263

#101,097

#141,588

Name

Rank

#459,502

#577,761

#663,746

#706,955

#831,034