🆚 MkDocs vs. Sphinx
- 📈 MkDocs is slightly more popular than Sphinx.
- 🌍 MkDocs is more popular in France, the Netherlands, and Russia.
- 🌎 Sphinx is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
MkDocsType
Static site generator
Static site generator
About
MkDocs is an open-source static site generator for building project documentation from 
Markdown files with a simple configuration-driven workflow.
It uses a single 
YAML configuration file to define navigation and site settings, includes a built-in development server with live reloading, supports theming and plugins, and provides one-command deployment to 
GitHub Pages.
Sphinx is a documentation generator written and used by the Python community.
Headquarters
Brighton, United Kingdom
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Static Site Generators › Rank #6
Static Site Generators › Rank #8
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The MkDocs static site generator is 1.1 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.
MkDocs is more popular in France, the Netherlands, and Russia, while Sphinx is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
United States
Germany
France
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Russia
Japan
Canada
Sweden
Switzerland
Awards
- ⭐ 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.
MkDocs is more popular among sites focused on Internet services, business, and blogs and wiki, while Sphinx is more commonly used on software and hardware, technical information, and education and reference sites.
Software/Hardware
Technical Information
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Technical/Business Forums
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Shareware/Freeware
Personal Pages
Online Shopping
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Doxygen🗃️ 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.