⚡ Static Site Generators in China

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

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our statistics, static site generators are used on 0.5% of websites from China.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Hexo with a share of 27.3%, followed by Hugo with 16.9% and Astro with 15.9%.

🚀 Highlights

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

✨ Best Static Site Generators

Below is a more detailed list of 16 static site generators used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
Hexo

A Node.js-powered static site generator.

FreeOpen source
2
Hugo

A static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization.

FreeOpen source
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
4
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
5
VitePress

A Vue-powered static site generator and successor to VuePress, built on top of the Vite build tool.

FreeOpen source
6
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
7
VuePress

A static site generator based on Vue and Markdown for building documentation and content-focused websites.

FreeOpen source
8
Jekyll

A static site generator written in Ruby.

FreeOpen source
9
Docsify

Turns one or more Markdown files into a Website, with no build process required.

FreeOpen source
10
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
11
MkDocs

A fast and simple static site generator for building project documentation.

FreeOpen source
12
Gridsome

A Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications.

FreeOpen source
13
Eleventy

A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript.

FreeOpen source
14
Sphinx

A documentation generator written and used by the Python community.

FreeOpen source
15
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
16
Pelican

A Python-powered static site generator powered that requires no database or server-side logic.

FreeOpen source

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 82,655 websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.