🆚 MkDocs vs. VuePress
- 📈 MkDocs is twice as popular as VuePress.
- 🌎 MkDocs is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France.
- 🌍 VuePress is more popular in China and Japan.
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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.
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.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 8th most popular in China in the Static Site Generators category.
- 🔥 13rd 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.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Gridsome🗃️ 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.