⚡ Static Site Generators in India

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

India is a South Asian country with a population of over 1.4 billion people.

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

Statistics based on 80K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Astro, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 59.7% share.
It is followed by Gatsby with 17.4% and Hugo with 11.5%.

Astro 59.7%
Gatsby 17.4%
Hugo 11.5%
Jekyll 6.1%
Docusaurus 1%
Publii 1%
GitBook 0.6%
Eleventy 0.4%
Pelican 0.4%
ReadMe 0.4%
Quarto 0.4%
Hexo 0.2%
Sphinx 0.2%
Gridsome 0.2%
Other 0.6%

🚀 Highlights

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

6. Publii ^(-7)
8. Eleventy ^(-2)
9. Pelican ^(-6)
10. ReadMe ^(-1)
11. Quarto ^(-6)
14. Gridsome ^(-5)
15. Docsify ^(-8)
16. mdBook ^(-2)
17. Scully ^(-5)

✨ Best Static Site Generators

Below is a more detailed list of 17 static site generators used on sites from India, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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	59.7%
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	17.4%
3	Hugo A static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization. FreeOpen source	11.5%
4	Jekyll A static site generator written in Ruby. FreeOpen source	6.1%
5	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%
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	1%
7	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%
8	Eleventy Bentonville, Arkansas, United States A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript. FreeOpen source	0.4%
9	Pelican United States A Python-based static site generator that transforms reStructuredText and Markdown content into static HTML websites. FreeOpen source	0.4%
10	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	0.4%
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	0.4%
12	Hexo A Node.js-based static site generator that builds fast blog and documentation sites from Markdown content. FreeOpen source	0.2%
13	Sphinx Germany An open-source documentation generator originally created for the Python ecosystem that converts reStructuredText and Markdown sources into structured technical documentation. FreeOpen source	0.2%
14	Gridsome A Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications. FreeOpen source	0.2%
15	Docsify Shanghai, China An open-source documentation site generator that renders Markdown files into single-page websites directly in the browser without requiring a static build process. FreeOpen source	0.2%
16	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	0.2%
17	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	0.2%

👉 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 80,272 websites from India.
We currently track the presence of 38 static site generators across the web.
Of these, 17 were detected on websites from India.
Statistics were last calculated on October 20, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.