⚡ 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 1% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 64K+ 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 23.1%, followed by Hugo with 17.8% and Astro with 17.7%.

Hexo 23.1%
Hugo 17.8%
Astro 17.7%
Docusaurus 7.8%
VitePress 6.2%
Gatsby 6.1%
VuePress 5.4%
Jekyll 4.9%
mdBook 2.5%
MkDocs 2.4%
GitBook 2.4%
Docsify 1.8%
Eleventy 0.5%
Read the Docs 0.3%
Other 1.1%

🚀 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)
2. Hugo ^(-1)
4. Docusaurus ^(-1)
5. VitePress ^(-7)
7. VuePress ^(-9)
9. mdBook ^(-9)
12. Docsify ^(-11)
17. Gridsome ^(-2)
19. Slate ^(-6)
20. Javadoc ^(-13)

✨ Best Static Site Generators

Below is a more detailed list of 20 static site generators used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Hexo A Node.js-based static site generator that builds fast blog and documentation sites from Markdown content. FreeOpen source	23.1%
2	Hugo A static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization. FreeOpen source	17.8%
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	17.7%
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	7.8%
5	VitePress A Vue-powered static site generator and successor to VuePress, built on top of the Vite build tool. FreeOpen source	6.2%
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	6.1%
7	VuePress A static site generator based on Vue and Markdown for building documentation and content-focused websites. FreeOpen source	5.4%
8	Jekyll A static site generator written in Ruby. FreeOpen source	4.9%
9	mdBook Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States A Rust-based command-line tool that compiles Markdown files into navigable and searchable online books for documentation, tutorials, and technical guides. FreeOpen source	2.5%
10	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	2.4%
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	2.4%
12	Docsify Shanghai, China An open-source documentation site generator that renders Markdown files into single-page websites directly in the browser without requiring a static build process. FreeOpen source	1.8%
13	Eleventy Bentonville, Arkansas, United States A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript. FreeOpen source	0.5%
14	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	0.3%
15	Sphinx Germany An open-source documentation generator originally created for the Python ecosystem that converts reStructuredText and Markdown sources into structured technical documentation. FreeOpen source	0.3%
16	Pelican United States A Python-based static site generator that transforms reStructuredText and Markdown content into static HTML websites. FreeOpen source	0.3%
17	Gridsome A Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications. FreeOpen source	0.3%
18	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%
19	Slate An open-source, Ruby-based static site generator built to create responsive API documentation from Markdown files. FreeOpen source	0.2%
20	Javadoc Austin, Texas, United States A tool for generating API documentation in HTML format from doc comments in Java source code. Free	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 64,974 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 38 static site generators across the web.
Of these, 20 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.