⚡ 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%.

Hexo 27.3%
Hugo 16.9%
Astro 15.9%
Docusaurus 7.5%
VitePress 7.2%
Gatsby 6.5%
VuePress 5.8%
Jekyll 5.6%
Docsify 1.9%
GitBook 1.9%
MkDocs 1%
Gridsome 1%
Eleventy 0.7%
Sphinx 0.2%
Other 0.6%

🚀 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.

1. Hexo ^(-7)
2. Hugo ^(-1)
4. Docusaurus ^(-1)
5. VitePress ^(-8)
7. VuePress ^(-8)
9. Docsify ^(-13)
12. Gridsome ^(-4)
16. Pelican ^(-4)

✨ 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.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Hexo A Node.js-powered static site generator. FreeOpen source	27.3%
2	Hugo A static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization. FreeOpen source	16.9%
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	15.9%
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	7.5%
5	VitePress A Vue-powered static site generator and successor to VuePress, built on top of the Vite build tool. FreeOpen source	7.2%
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	6.5%
7	VuePress A static site generator based on Vue and Markdown for building documentation and content-focused websites. FreeOpen source	5.8%
8	Jekyll A static site generator written in Ruby. FreeOpen source	5.6%
9	Docsify Turns one or more Markdown files into a Website, with no build process required. FreeOpen source	1.9%
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	1.9%
11	MkDocs A fast and simple static site generator for building project documentation. FreeOpen source	1%
12	Gridsome A Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications. FreeOpen source	1%
13	Eleventy A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript. FreeOpen source	0.7%
14	Sphinx A documentation generator written and used by the Python community. FreeOpen source	0.2%
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	0.2%
16	Pelican A Python-powered static site generator powered that requires no database or server-side logic. FreeOpen source	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 Static Site Generators in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 82,655 websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.