⚡ 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.

Statistics based on 240K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 35%, followed by Astro with 21.6% and Gatsby with 18.2%.

Hugo 35%
Astro 21.6%
Gatsby 18.2%
Jekyll 7.1%
Sphinx 2.3%
Publii 2.3%
MkDocs 2.3%
Docusaurus 1.7%
Pelican 1.3%
Eleventy 1%
Scully 0.9%
Gridsome 0.9%
📖 Docutils 0.7%
mdBook 0.7%
Other 4%

🚀 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 ^(-3)
6. Publii ^(-6)
9. Pelican ^(-10)
11. Scully ^(-10)
12. Gridsome ^(-3)
13. 📖 Docutils ^(-7)
17. Doxygen ^(-10)
19. 📖 Pandoc ^(-3)
24. Zola ^(-2)

✨ Best Static Site Generators

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 30 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	35%
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	21.6%
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	18.2%
4	Jekyll A static site generator written in Ruby. FreeOpen source	7.1%
5	Sphinx An open-source documentation generator originally created for the Python ecosystem that converts reStructuredText and Markdown sources into structured technical documentation. FreeOpen source	2.3%
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 Brighton, United Kingdom An open-source static site generator for building project documentation from Markdown files with a simple configuration-driven workflow. FreeOpen source	2.3%
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	1.7%
9	Pelican United States A Python-based static site generator that transforms reStructuredText and Markdown content into static HTML websites. FreeOpen source	1.3%
10	Eleventy A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript. FreeOpen source	1%
11	Scully Sandy, Utah, United States A static site generator for Angular applications that pre-renders Angular routes into static HTML at build time to improve loading performance and SEO. 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	0.7%
⏳	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	0.7%
15	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%
16	VitePress A Vue.js-powered static site generator and successor to VuePress, built on top of the Vite build tool. FreeOpen source	0.5%
17	Doxygen Eindhoven, Netherlands An open-source documentation generator that creates reference documentation from annotated source code and supports languages including C/C++, C#, PHP, Java, Python, IDL, Fortran, and D. FreeOpen source	0.5%
18	VuePress A static site generator based on Vue.js and Markdown for building documentation and content-focused websites. FreeOpen source	0.4%
19	📖 Pandoc Berkeley, California, United States A Haskell library and command-line tool for converting documents between markup formats such as Markdown, HTML, LaTeX, DOCX, and EPUB. FreeOpen source	0.4%
20	Hexo A Node.js-based static site generator that builds fast blog and documentation sites from Markdown content. FreeOpen source	0.4%
21	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%
22	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 Notebook notebooks and embed executable code in Python, R, Julia, or Observable. FreeOpen source	0.3%
23	Docsify Turns one or more Markdown files into a Website, with no build process required. FreeOpen source	0.2%
24	Zola A fast static site generator written in Rust. FreeOpen source	0.2%
25	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%

👉 See Also

🌎 Static Site Generators in other countries
- Spain
- France
- Italy

🗃️ 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 240,324 websites from Germany.
We currently track the presence of 37 static site generators across the web.
Of these, 30 were detected on websites from Germany.
Statistics were last calculated on June 20, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.