⚡ Static Site Generators

Static site generators (SSG) are software applications that create complete static HTML websites from raw content and templates.

Commonly used for blogs and documentation sites, static site generators offer fast load times, lower server requirements, and improved security by eliminating the need for dynamic content generation on the server.

According to our statistics, static site generators are used on 0.6% of all websites.
99.2% of these sites use only one static site generator, 0.7% use two.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading static site generators in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Astro with a share of 25.6%, followed by Gatsby with 24.2% and Hugo with 21.9%.

Astro 25.6%
Gatsby 24.2%
Hugo 21.9%
Jekyll 9.5%
Docusaurus 3.3%
MkDocs 1.7%
GitBook 1.5%
Sphinx 1.5%
Hexo 1.4%
Eleventy 1.1%
ReadMe 1.1%
Publii 1%
VitePress 0.9%
Read the Docs 0.8%
Other 4.5%

You can also drill down by country:

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of static site generators that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

Gatsby is #1 in the United Kingdom ^(-1)
Hugo is #1 in Germany ^(-2)

✨ Best Static Site Generators

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 37 static site generators we detect, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Astro A web build tool optimized for creating fast, content-driven websites using server-rendered HTML and an Islands architecture for partial hydration. FreeOpen source	25.6%
2	Gatsby San Francisco, California, United States An open-source static site generator built on React and Node.js that creates fast pre-rendered websites. FreeOpen source	24.2%
3	Hugo A static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization. FreeOpen source	21.9%
4	Jekyll A static site generator written in Ruby. FreeOpen source	9.5%
5	Docusaurus Menlo Park, California, United States A static site generator for React-powered documentation websites that uses MDX and a React-based theme system. FreeOpen source	3.3%
6	MkDocs Brighton, United Kingdom An open-source static site generator for building project documentation from Markdown files with a simple configuration-driven workflow. FreeOpen source	1.7%
7	GitBook Covina, California, United States A cloud-based documentation platform for creating and publishing product documentation, API references, and knowledge bases. FreeOpen source$79+/site/month	1.5%
8	Sphinx An open-source documentation generator originally created for the Python ecosystem that converts reStructuredText and Markdown sources into structured technical documentation. FreeOpen source	1.5%
9	Hexo A Node.js-based static site generator that builds fast blog and documentation sites from Markdown content. FreeOpen source	1.4%
10	Eleventy A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript. FreeOpen source	1.1%
11	ReadMe San Francisco, California, United States A cloud-based documentation platform that helps teams create, publish, and manage interactive API documentation hubs. Free$99+/month	1.1%
12	Publii Krynica-Zdrój, Poland A desktop-based website builder for Windows, Mac, and Linux that creates static websites using the Handlebars templating language. FreeOpen source	1%
13	VitePress A Vue.js-powered static site generator and successor to VuePress, built on top of the Vite build tool. FreeOpen source	0.9%
14	Read the Docs Portland, Oregon, United States A continuous documentation deployment platform that automatically builds, versions, and hosts software documentation from Git repositories. FreeOpen source$5+/month	0.8%
15	Gridsome A Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications. FreeOpen source	0.7%
16	VuePress A static site generator based on Vue.js and Markdown for building documentation and content-focused websites. FreeOpen source	0.7%
⏳	mdBook Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States A Rust-based command-line tool that compiles Markdown files into navigable and searchable online books for documentation, tutorials, and technical guides. FreeOpen source	0.6%
18	Quarto Boston, Massachusetts, United States An open-source scientific and technical publishing system based on Markdown that allows users to write in plain-text Markdown or work with Jupyter Notebook notebooks and embed executable code in Python, R, Julia, or Observable. FreeOpen source	0.6%
19	Pelican United States A Python-based static site generator that transforms reStructuredText and Markdown content into static HTML websites. FreeOpen source	0.5%
20	📖 Docutils An open-source text processing system for transforming plain text documentation into useful formats such as HTML, LaTeX, man pages, OpenDocument, or XML. FreeOpen source	0.3%
21	Scully Sandy, Utah, United States A static site generator for Angular applications that pre-renders Angular routes into static HTML at build time to improve loading performance and SEO. FreeOpen source	0.3%
22	📖 Pandoc Berkeley, California, United States A Haskell library and command-line tool for converting documents between markup formats such as Markdown, HTML, LaTeX, DOCX, and EPUB. FreeOpen source	0.3%
23	Docsify Shanghai, China Turns one or more Markdown files into a website, with no build process required. FreeOpen source	0.3%
24	DocFX Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source static site generator for .NET API documentation that builds developer documentation websites from source code comments and Markdown files. FreeOpen source	0.2%
25	Slate An open-source, Ruby-based static site generator built to create responsive API documentation from Markdown files. FreeOpen source	0.2%

👉 See Also

Static site generator

🗃️ 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 3,532,617 websites.
We currently track the presence of 37 static site generators across the web.
Statistics were last calculated on June 28, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.