🆚 Hugo vs. Jekyll

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Static site generator
Static site generator

About

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization.

It supports Markdown content, templating, configurable taxonomies, multilingual sites, image processing, Sass and JavaScript pipelines, pretty URLs, a live-reload development server, and shortcodes to insert elements such as videos, images and social media embeds.

Jekyll is a static site generator written in Ruby.

It uses the Liquid templating language, supports front-matter metadata and data files in YAML, JSON, and CSV formats, includes a plugin system with custom converters and generators, and offers incremental regeneration to speed up build times.

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Hugo static site generator is 2.3 times more popular than Jekyll.
Total websites

Market share

Static Site Generators

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Hugo is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Jekyll is more popular in Korea, Colombia, and Nepal.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Canada
Netherlands
Japan
Italy
Australia
China

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Hugo is more popular than Jekyll in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Business
Internet Services
Technical/Business Forums
Education/Reference
Technical Information
Marketing/Merchandising
Games
Personal Pages

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
#1,368
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Rank
#3,491
#10,456
#12,723
#15,399
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