⚡ Static Site Generators in Canada

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

Canada is a North American country with a population of over 40 million people.

According to our statistics, static site generators are used on 0.6% of websites from Canada.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Hugo with an impressive share of 30.1%, followed by Gatsby with 28.5% and Astro with 20%.

Hugo 30.1%
Gatsby 28.5%
Astro 20%
Jekyll 7.5%
Docusaurus 1.9%
Gridsome 1.6%
Publii 1.3%
Eleventy 1.3%
MkDocs 1.1%
Sphinx 1.1%
GitBook 1.1%
📖 Pandoc 0.8%
Quarto 0.5%
📖 Docutils 0.5%
Other 2.7%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Hugo ^(-2)
6. Gridsome ^(-10)
7. Publii ^(-4)
8. Eleventy ^(-2)
12. 📖 Pandoc ^(-9)
13. Quarto ^(-4)
14. 📖 Docutils ^(-4)
16. Scully ^(-3)
17. Doxygen ^(-11)
18. Lume ^(-8)

✨ Best Static Site Generators

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 25 static site generators used on sites from Canada, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Hugo A static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization. FreeOpen source	30.1%
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	28.5%
3	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	20%
4	Jekyll A static site generator written in Ruby. FreeOpen source	7.5%
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	1.9%
6	Gridsome A Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications. FreeOpen source	1.6%
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	1.3%
8	Eleventy A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript. FreeOpen source	1.3%
9	MkDocs A fast and simple static site generator for building project documentation. FreeOpen source	1.1%
10	Sphinx A documentation generator written and used by the Python community. FreeOpen source	1.1%
11	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	1.1%
12	📖 Pandoc A Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. FreeOpen source	0.8%
13	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%
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	0.5%
15	Hexo A Node.js-powered static site generator. FreeOpen source	0.5%
16	Scully A static site generator for Angular projects looking to embrace the Jamstack. FreeOpen source	0.3%
17	Doxygen A tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ source code, which also supports C#, PHP, Java, Python, IDL, Fortran, and D. FreeOpen source	0.3%
18	Lume A fast and flexible static site generator built with Deno. FreeOpen source	0.3%
19	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%
20	Docsify Turns one or more Markdown files into a Website, with no build process required. FreeOpen source	0.3%
21	Pelican A Python-powered static site generator powered that requires no database or server-side logic. FreeOpen source	0.3%
22	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	0.3%
23	VitePress A Vue-powered static site generator and successor to VuePress, built on top of the Vite build tool. FreeOpen source	0.3%
24	VuePress A static site generator based on Vue and Markdown for building documentation and content-focused websites. FreeOpen source	0.3%
25	Slate Helps you create beautiful, intelligent, responsive API documentation. FreeOpen source	0.3%

👉 See Also

🌎 Static Site Generators in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 66,600 websites from Canada.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.