⚡ Static Site Generators in Italy

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

Italy is a Southern European country with a population of around 59 million people.

According to our statistics, static site generators are used on 0.3% of websites from Italy.

Statistics based on 89K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Gatsby with an impressive share of 33%, followed by Astro with 25.4% and Hugo with 23.4%.

Gatsby 33%
Astro 25.4%
Hugo 23.4%
Jekyll 9.9%
Publii 2%
Hexo 1.7%
Docusaurus 1.3%
MkDocs 1%
Read the Docs 0.3%
Sphinx 0.3%
Eleventy 0.3%
📖 Docutils 0.3%
VuePress 0.3%
📖 Pandoc 0.3%
Other 0.5%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Gatsby ^(-1)
5. Publii ^(-7)
6. Hexo ^(-3)
9. Read the Docs ^(-5)
12. 📖 Docutils ^(-6)
13. VuePress ^(-3)
14. 📖 Pandoc ^(-7)
16. Pelican ^(-4)

✨ Best Static Site Generators

Below is a more detailed list of 16 static site generators used on sites from Italy, 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	33%
2	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	25.4%
3	Hugo A static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization. FreeOpen source	23.4%
4	Jekyll A static site generator written in Ruby. FreeOpen source	9.9%
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	Hexo A Node.js-powered static site generator. FreeOpen source	1.7%
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	1.3%
8	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	1%
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	0.3%
10	Sphinx A documentation generator written and used by the Python community. FreeOpen source	0.3%
11	Eleventy A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript. FreeOpen source	0.3%
12	📖 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	0.3%
13	VuePress A static site generator based on Vue.js and Markdown for building documentation and content-focused websites. FreeOpen source	0.3%
14	📖 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	0.3%
15	Gridsome A Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications. FreeOpen source	0.3%
16	Pelican A Python-powered static site generator powered that requires no database or server-side logic. FreeOpen source	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 89,089 websites from Italy.
We currently track the presence of 36 static site generators across the web.
Of these, 16 were detected on websites from Italy.
Statistics were last calculated on April 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.