⚡ 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 0.6% of websites from Australia.

Statistics based on 74K+ 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 Gatsby with an impressive share of 43.5%, followed by Astro with 21.4% and Hugo with 17.5%.

Gatsby 43.5%
Astro 21.4%
Hugo 17.5%
Jekyll 5.8%
Gridsome 3.1%
Docusaurus 2.2%
Publii 1.7%
Sphinx 0.7%
Quarto 0.7%
ReadMe 0.7%
Obsidian Publish 0.5%
VitePress 0.5%
Eleventy 0.5%
📖 Docutils 0.2%
Other 1%

🚀 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.

1. Gatsby ^(-1)
5. Gridsome ^(-10)
7. Publii ^(-5)
9. Quarto ^(-8)
11. Obsidian Publish ^(-14)
12. VitePress ^(-1)
14. 📖 Docutils ^(-4)
15. 📖 Pandoc ^(-6)
16. Scalar ^(-14)
17. Scully ^(-2)

✨ Best Static Site Generators

Below is a more detailed list of 19 static site generators used on sites from Australia, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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	43.5%
2	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	21.4%
3	Hugo A static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization. FreeOpen source	17.5%
4	Jekyll A static site generator written in Ruby. FreeOpen source	5.8%
5	Gridsome A Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications. FreeOpen source	3.1%
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	2.2%
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	1.7%
8	Sphinx A documentation generator written and used by the Python community. FreeOpen source	0.7%
9	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	0.7%
10	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%
11	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	0.5%
12	VitePress A Vue.js-powered static site generator and successor to VuePress, built on top of the Vite build tool. FreeOpen source	0.5%
13	Eleventy A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript. FreeOpen source	0.5%
14	📖 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%
15	📖 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	0.2%
16	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	0.2%
17	Scully A static site generator for Angular projects looking to embrace the Jamstack. FreeOpen source	0.2%
18	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%
19	Zola A fast static site generator written in Rust. FreeOpen source	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 74,872 websites from Australia.
We currently track the presence of 36 static site generators across the web.
Of these, 19 were detected on websites from Australia.
Statistics were last calculated on April 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.