🆚 Jekyll vs. Sphinx
- 📈 Jekyll is much more popular than Sphinx.
- 🌎 Jekyll is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Sphinx is more popular in Estonia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
JekyllType
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.
Sphinx is a documentation generator written and used by the Python community.
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Static Site Generators › Rank #4
Static Site Generators › Rank #8
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Jekyll static site generator is 6 times more popular than Sphinx.
Total websites
Market share
Static Site Generators
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Jekyll is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Sphinx is more popular in Estonia.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Netherlands
Brazil
Canada
Italy
Australia
India
Awards
- ⭐ 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.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Static Site Generators category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Jekyll is more popular than Sphinx in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Technical Information
Technical/Business Forums
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Business
Personal Pages
Marketing/Merchandising
Games
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
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Slate🗃️ 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.