โšก Static Site Generators in France

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

France is a Western European country with a population of around 69 million people.

According to our statistics, static site generators are used on 0.6% of websites from France.

โญ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Hugo with a share of 27.3%, followed by Gatsby with 25.8% and Astro with 21.8%.

๐Ÿš€ Highlights

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

โœจ Best Static Site Generators

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 27 static site generators used on sites from France, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
Hugo

A static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization.

FreeOpen source
2
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
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
4
Jekyll

A static site generator written in Ruby.

FreeOpen source
5
Publii
Krynica-Zdrรณj, Poland

A desktop-based website builder for Windows, Mac, and Linux that creates static websites using the Handlebars templating language.

FreeOpen source
6
MkDocs

A fast and simple static site generator for building project documentation.

FreeOpen source
7
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
8
Eleventy

A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript.

FreeOpen source
9
Gridsome

A Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications.

FreeOpen source
10
Sphinx

A documentation generator written and used by the Python community.

FreeOpen source
11
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
12
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
13
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
14
VuePress

A static site generator based on Vue and Markdown for building documentation and content-focused websites.

FreeOpen source
15
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
16
Zola

A fast static site generator written in Rust.

FreeOpen source
17
Pelican

A Python-powered static site generator powered that requires no database or server-side logic.

FreeOpen source
18
๐Ÿ“– 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
19
HonKit

An open-source tool for creating documentation using GitHub/Git and Markdown, a fork of GitBook.

FreeOpen source
20
๐Ÿ“– Pandoc

A Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library.

FreeOpen source
21
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
22
Scully

A static site generator for Angular projects looking to embrace the Jamstack.

FreeOpen source
23
Docsify

Turns one or more Markdown files into a Website, with no build process required.

FreeOpen source
24
Doxygen

A tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ source code, which also supports C#, PHP, Java, Python, IDL, Fortran, and D.

FreeOpen source
25
DocFX

A static site generator for .NET API documentation.

FreeOpen source

๐Ÿ‘‰ See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 111,745 websites from France.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.