🆚 MkDocs vs. VuePress

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.

VuePress is a static site generator based on Vue and Markdown for building documentation and content-focused websites.

It combines Markdown content with Vue components, provides a theme and plugin ecosystem, uses Vue Router for client-side navigation, includes built-in internationalization, and supports server-side rendering and static generation.

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 2.2 times more popular than VuePress.
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 VuePress is more popular in China and Japan.
United States
Germany
China
France
Russia
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Japan
Brazil
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

MkDocs is more popular than VuePress in all market segments.
Software/Hardware
Internet Services
Technical Information
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Technical/Business Forums
Education/Reference
Shareware/Freeware
Entertainment
Games

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#12,026
#30,903
#54,106
#57,081
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Rank
#20,735
#94,703
#136,751
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