⚡ Static Site Generators in the United Kingdom

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

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our statistics, static site generators are used on 0.7% of websites from the United Kingdom.

Statistics based on 159K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Gatsby with an impressive share of 30.8%, followed by Hugo with 23.2% and Astro with 19.5%.

Gatsby 30.8%
Hugo 23.2%
Astro 19.5%
Jekyll 14.1%
Publii 2.7%
Eleventy 1.8%
Docusaurus 1.4%
Sphinx 0.9%
Read the Docs 0.7%
GitBook 0.7%
ReadMe 0.6%
Gridsome 0.6%
MkDocs 0.6%
Quarto 0.5%
Other 1.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Gatsby ^(-1)
2. Hugo ^(-1)
5. Publii ^(-7)
6. Eleventy ^(-5)
9. Read the Docs ^(-5)
12. Gridsome ^(-3)
14. Quarto ^(-3)
15. Scully ^(-4)
18. Zola ^(-6)
19. Lume ^(-7)

✨ Best Static Site Generators

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 25 static site generators used on sites from the United Kingdom, 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	30.8%
2	Hugo A static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization. FreeOpen source	23.2%
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	19.5%
4	Jekyll A static site generator written in Ruby. FreeOpen source	14.1%
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	2.7%
6	Eleventy A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript. FreeOpen source	1.8%
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	1.4%
8	Sphinx A documentation generator written and used by the Python community. FreeOpen source	0.9%
9	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	0.7%
10	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	0.7%
11	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%
12	Gridsome A Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications. FreeOpen source	0.6%
13	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	0.6%
14	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	0.5%
15	Scully A static site generator for Angular projects looking to embrace the Jamstack. FreeOpen source	0.4%
16	VitePress A Vue.js-powered static site generator and successor to VuePress, built on top of the Vite build tool. FreeOpen source	0.3%
17	Hexo A Node.js-powered static site generator. FreeOpen source	0.3%
18	Zola A fast static site generator written in Rust. FreeOpen source	0.3%
19	Lume A fast and flexible static site generator built with Deno. FreeOpen source	0.2%
20	📖 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	0.2%
21	VuePress A static site generator based on Vue.js and Markdown for building documentation and content-focused websites. FreeOpen source	0.2%
22	Pelican A Python-powered static site generator powered that requires no database or server-side logic. FreeOpen source	0.2%
23	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%
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	0.09%
25	Quartz San Francisco, California, United States An open-source static-site generator that turns your "digital garden" and notes into a website. FreeOpen source	0.09%

👉 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 159,260 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 36 static site generators across the web.
Of these, 25 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on April 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.