⚡ 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.

Statistics based on 83K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 27.7%, followed by Astro with 16.3% and Hugo with 16.3%.

Hexo 27.7%
Astro 16.3%
Hugo 16.3%
Docusaurus 7.6%
VitePress 7.3%
Gatsby 6.9%
Jekyll 5.4%
VuePress 5.4%
Docsify 1.9%
GitBook 1.9%
MkDocs 0.9%
Gridsome 0.9%
Eleventy 0.5%
Sphinx 0.5%
Other 0.5%

🚀 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 ^(-8)
4. Docusaurus ^(-1)
5. VitePress ^(-8)
8. VuePress ^(-7)
9. Docsify ^(-13)
12. Gridsome ^(-4)
17. Pelican ^(-3)

✨ Best Static Site Generators

Below is a more detailed list of 17 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	27.7%
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	16.3%
3	Hugo A static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization. FreeOpen source	16.3%
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	7.6%
5	VitePress A Vue.js-powered static site generator and successor to VuePress, built on top of the Vite build tool. FreeOpen source	7.3%
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	6.9%
7	Jekyll A static site generator written in Ruby. FreeOpen source	5.4%
8	VuePress A static site generator based on Vue.js and Markdown for building documentation and content-focused websites. FreeOpen source	5.4%
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 Brighton, United Kingdom An open-source static site generator for building project documentation from Markdown files with a simple configuration-driven workflow. FreeOpen source	0.9%
12	Gridsome A Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications. FreeOpen source	0.9%
13	Eleventy A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript. FreeOpen source	0.5%
14	Sphinx A documentation generator written and used by the Python community. FreeOpen source	0.5%
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	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%
17	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

🗃️ 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 83,408 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 36 static site generators across the web.
Of these, 17 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.