🆚 Pelican vs. Sphinx
- 📈 Sphinx is three times more popular than Pelican.
- 🌎 Sphinx is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Pelican is more popular in China.
Pelican
SphinxType
About
Pelican is a Python-based static site generator that transforms reStructuredText and 
Markdown content into static 
HTML websites.
It supports Jinja2 templating, plugins, multilingual sites, 
RSS and Atom feed generation, syntax highlighting via Pygments, and deployment to 
GitHub Pages and 
Amazon S3.
Sphinx is an open-source documentation generator originally created for the Python ecosystem that converts reStructuredText and Markdown sources into structured technical documentation.
It supports cross-references, automatic API documentation for Python, 
C++, 
JS, and other software domains, theming, and deployments to 
Read the Docs, GitHub Pages, 
GitLab Pages, and 
Netlify.
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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
- 🔥 16th most popular in the United States 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.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Docusaurus🗃️ 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 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.