⚡ 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.

⭐ 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%.

Hugo 27.3%
Gatsby 25.8%
Astro 21.8%
Jekyll 7.5%
Publii 2.6%
MkDocs 2.3%
Docusaurus 2.3%
Eleventy 2.1%
Gridsome 1.2%
Sphinx 1.1%
Quarto 0.9%
GitBook 0.9%
ReadMe 0.6%
VuePress 0.5%
Other 3.1%

🚀 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.

1. Hugo ^(-2)
5. Publii ^(-6)
8. Eleventy ^(-2)
9. Gridsome ^(-7)
11. Quarto ^(-6)
14. VuePress ^(-1)
16. Zola ^(-8)
17. Pelican ^(-3)
19. HonKit ^(-12)
20. 📖 Pandoc ^(-1)

✨ 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.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Hugo A static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization. FreeOpen source	27.3%
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	25.8%
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	21.8%
4	Jekyll A static site generator written in Ruby. FreeOpen source	7.5%
5	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	2.6%
6	MkDocs A fast and simple static site generator for building project documentation. FreeOpen source	2.3%
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	2.3%
8	Eleventy A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript. FreeOpen source	2.1%
9	Gridsome A Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications. FreeOpen source	1.2%
10	Sphinx A documentation generator written and used by the Python community. FreeOpen source	1.1%
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	0.9%
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	0.9%
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	0.6%
14	VuePress A static site generator based on Vue and Markdown for building documentation and content-focused websites. FreeOpen source	0.5%
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	0.5%
16	Zola A fast static site generator written in Rust. FreeOpen source	0.5%
17	Pelican A Python-powered static site generator powered that requires no database or server-side logic. FreeOpen source	0.5%
18	📖 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	0.5%
19	HonKit An open-source tool for creating documentation using GitHub/Git and Markdown, a fork of GitBook. FreeOpen source	0.3%
20	📖 Pandoc A Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. FreeOpen source	0.3%
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	0.3%
22	Scully A static site generator for Angular projects looking to embrace the Jamstack. 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	Doxygen A tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ source code, which also supports C#, PHP, Java, Python, IDL, Fortran, and D. FreeOpen source	0.2%
25	DocFX A static site generator for .NET API documentation. FreeOpen source	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 Static Site Generators in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 111,745 websites from France.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.