⚡ Static Site Generators in Germany

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

Germany is a Central European country with a population of around 84 million people.

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

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Hugo with an impressive share of 36.4%, followed by Astro with 20.9% and Gatsby with 18.7%.

Hugo 36.4%
Astro 20.9%
Gatsby 18.7%
Jekyll 7.5%
Sphinx 2.4%
Publii 2.3%
MkDocs 2%
Docusaurus 1.6%
Eleventy 1%
Scully 0.9%
Pelican 0.9%
Gridsome 0.9%
📖 Docutils 0.8%
GitBook 0.6%
Other 3.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Hugo ^(-2)
5. Sphinx ^(-2)
6. Publii ^(-5)
9. Eleventy ^(-1)
10. Scully ^(-9)
11. Pelican ^(-9)
12. Gridsome ^(-4)
13. 📖 Docutils ^(-5)
17. 📖 Pandoc ^(-4)
20. Docsify ^(-2)

✨ Best Static Site Generators

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 29 static site generators used on sites from Germany, 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	36.4%
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	20.9%
3	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	18.7%
4	Jekyll A static site generator written in Ruby. FreeOpen source	7.5%
5	Sphinx A documentation generator written and used by the Python community. FreeOpen source	2.4%
6	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	2.3%
7	MkDocs A fast and simple static site generator for building project documentation. FreeOpen source	2%
8	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	1.6%
9	Eleventy A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript. FreeOpen source	1%
10	Scully A static site generator for Angular projects looking to embrace the Jamstack. FreeOpen source	0.9%
11	Pelican A Python-powered static site generator powered that requires no database or server-side logic. FreeOpen source	0.9%
12	Gridsome A Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications. FreeOpen source	0.9%
13	📖 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	0.8%
14	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	0.6%
15	VuePress A static site generator based on Vue and Markdown for building documentation and content-focused websites. FreeOpen source	0.5%
16	VitePress A Vue-powered static site generator and successor to VuePress, built on top of the Vite build tool. FreeOpen source	0.5%
17	📖 Pandoc A Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. FreeOpen source	0.4%
18	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%
19	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	0.3%
20	Docsify Turns one or more Markdown files into a Website, with no build process required. FreeOpen source	0.3%
21	Hexo A Node.js-powered static site generator. FreeOpen source	0.3%
22	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%
23	Zola A fast static site generator written in Rust. FreeOpen source	0.2%
24	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	0.09%
25	Doxygen A tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ source code, which also supports C#, PHP, Java, Python, IDL, Fortran, and D. FreeOpen source	0.09%

👉 See Also

🌎 Static Site Generators in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 225,538 websites from Germany.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.