⚡ 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.

Statistics based on 121K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 Gatsby with a share of 26.7%, followed by Hugo with 25.9% and Astro with 22.1%.

Gatsby 26.7%
Hugo 25.9%
Astro 22.1%
Jekyll 7.2%
Publii 2.6%
MkDocs 2.5%
Docusaurus 2.3%
Eleventy 1.9%
Gridsome 1.1%
Sphinx 1.1%
GitBook 1%
Quarto 0.8%
VuePress 0.5%
ReadMe 0.5%
Other 3.8%

🚀 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. Gatsby ^(-1)
2. Hugo ^(-1)
5. Publii ^(-7)
8. Eleventy ^(-2)
9. Gridsome ^(-6)
12. Quarto ^(-6)
13. VuePress ^(-3)
15. 📖 Docutils ^(-4)
16. Zola ^(-10)
17. 📖 Pandoc ^(-4)

✨ Best Static Site Generators

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 28 static site generators used on sites from France, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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	26.7%
2	Hugo A static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization. FreeOpen source	25.9%
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	22.1%
4	Jekyll A static site generator written in Ruby. FreeOpen source	7.2%
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 Brighton, United Kingdom An open-source static site generator for building project documentation from Markdown files with a simple configuration-driven workflow. FreeOpen source	2.5%
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	1.9%
9	Gridsome A Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications. FreeOpen source	1.1%
10	Sphinx An open-source documentation generator originally created for the Python ecosystem that converts reStructuredText and Markdown sources into structured technical documentation. FreeOpen source	1.1%
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	1%
12	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	0.8%
13	VuePress A static site generator based on Vue.js and Markdown for building documentation and content-focused websites. FreeOpen source	0.5%
14	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	0.5%
15	📖 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%
16	Zola A fast static site generator written in Rust. FreeOpen source	0.4%
17	📖 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%
18	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	0.4%
19	Pelican United States A Python-based static site generator that transforms reStructuredText and Markdown content into static HTML websites. FreeOpen source	0.4%
⏳	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	0.4%
21	HonKit An open-source tool for creating documentation using GitHub/Git and Markdown, a fork of GitBook. FreeOpen source	0.3%
22	DocFX Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source static site generator for .NET API documentation that builds developer documentation websites from source code comments and Markdown files. FreeOpen source	0.3%
23	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	0.3%
24	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	0.3%
25	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%

👉 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 121,608 websites from France.
We currently track the presence of 37 static site generators across the web.
Of these, 28 were detected on websites from France.
Statistics were last calculated on June 19, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.