⚡ Static Site Generators in Australia

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

Australia is an Oceanian country with a population of over 27 million people.

According to our statistics, static site generators are used on 0.7% of websites from Australia.

Statistics based on 81K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Astro with an impressive share of 35.8%, followed by Gatsby with 34.4% and Hugo with 14.9%.

Astro 35.8%
Gatsby 34.4%
Hugo 14.9%
Jekyll 5.1%
Gridsome 2%
Docusaurus 1.9%
Publii 1.4%
ReadMe 0.7%
mdBook 0.5%
Quarto 0.5%
Sphinx 0.3%
Obsidian Publish 0.3%
Eleventy 0.3%
Scalar 0.3%
Other 1.5%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top static site generators that are more popular in Australia than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

5. Gridsome ^(-14)
7. Publii ^(-6)
8. ReadMe ^(-3)
9. mdBook ^(-8)
10. Quarto ^(-8)
12. Obsidian Publish ^(-15)
14. Scalar ^(-15)
15. Zola ^(-11)
17. Scully ^(-5)
19. 📖 Docutils ^(-1)

✨ Best Static Site Generators

Below is a more detailed list of 24 static site generators used on sites from Australia, 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	35.8%
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	34.4%
3	Hugo A static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization. FreeOpen source	14.9%
4	Jekyll A static site generator written in Ruby. FreeOpen source	5.1%
5	Gridsome A Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications. FreeOpen source	2%
6	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	1.9%
7	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	1.4%
8	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	0.7%
9	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	0.5%
10	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 notebooks and embed executable code in Python, R, Julia, or Observable JS. FreeOpen source	0.5%
11	Sphinx Germany An open-source documentation generator originally created for the Python ecosystem that converts reStructuredText and Markdown sources into structured technical documentation. FreeOpen source	0.3%
12	Obsidian Publish Toronto, Ontario, Canada A cloud-based service that lets you publish your Obsidian notes as a wiki, knowledge base, documentation, or digital garden. $10/month	0.3%
13	Eleventy Bentonville, Arkansas, United States A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript. FreeOpen source	0.3%
14	Scalar Victoria, British Columbia, Canada An open-source platform for creating API documentation with an interactive playground, built around the OpenAPI standard. Free$24+/seat/month	0.3%
15	Zola A fast static site generator written in Rust. FreeOpen source	0.2%
16	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	0.2%
17	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	0.2%
18	Pelican United States A Python-based static site generator that transforms reStructuredText and Markdown content into static HTML websites. FreeOpen source	0.2%
19	📖 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	0.2%
20	VitePress A Vue-powered static site generator and successor to VuePress, built on top of the Vite build tool. FreeOpen source	0.2%
21	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	0.2%
22	Hexo A Node.js-based static site generator that builds fast blog and documentation sites from Markdown content. FreeOpen source	0.2%
23	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	0.2%
24	Javadoc Austin, Texas, United States A tool for generating API documentation in HTML format from doc comments in Java source code. Free	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 Static Site Generators in other countries

🗃️ 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 81,818 websites from Australia.
We currently track the presence of 38 static site generators across the web.
Of these, 24 were detected on websites from Australia.
Statistics were last calculated on September 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.