🆚 Jekyll vs. Pelican

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Static site generator
Static site generator

About

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.

Pelican is a Python-powered static site generator powered that requires no database or server-side logic.

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Jekyll static site generator is 35 times more popular than Pelican.
Total websites

Market share

Static Site Generators

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Jekyll is more popular than Pelican in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Brazil
Netherlands
Italy
Canada
India
China

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

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

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
#3,491
#10,456
#12,723
#15,399
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Rank
#269,348
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