🆚 MkDocs vs. VitePress

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Static site generator
Static site generator

About

MkDocs is a fast and simple static site generator for building project documentation.

VitePress is a Vue-powered static site generator and successor to VuePress, built on top of the Vite build tool.

It provides a Markdown-first workflow with Vue components, fast development updates through Vite's module system, automatic routing and sidebar generation, support for TypeScript and JSX in Markdown, built-in search indexing, a theming system, and static HTML output with minimal client-side JavaScript.

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The MkDocs static site generator is 1.8 times more popular than VitePress.
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 the United States, Germany, and France, while VitePress is more popular in China, Japan, and Hong Kong.
United States
China
Germany
France
Russia
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Japan
Brazil
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

MkDocs is more popular among sites focused on software and hardware, Internet services, and business, while VitePress is more commonly used on technical, business forums and games sites.
Software/Hardware
Internet Services
Technical Information
Business
Technical/Business Forums
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Games
Shareware/Freeware
Online Shopping

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#12,026
#30,903
#54,106
#57,081
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Rank
#6,061
#29,061
#29,726
#42,883
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