🆚 Hugo vs. Jekyll
- 📈 Hugo is twice as popular as Jekyll.
- 🌎 Hugo is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Jekyll is more popular in Korea, Colombia, and Nepal.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Hugo
JekyllType
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.
YAML
JSONPricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Static Site Generators › Rank #3
Static Site Generators › Rank #4
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
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Static Site Generators category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Static Site Generators category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Static Site Generators category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Static Site Generators category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Switzerland in the Static Site Generators category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Static Site Generators category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Static Site Generators category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in France in the Static Site Generators category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Brazil in the Static Site Generators category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Hugo is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, software and hardware, and business, while Jekyll is more commonly used on general news, government and military, and recreation and hobbies sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Business
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Technical/Business Forums
Technical Information
Marketing/Merchandising
Games
Personal Pages
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Quarto🗃️ 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.