⚡ Static Site Generators in Japan

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

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our statistics, static site generators are used on 0.5% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 201K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Astro, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 55.4% share.
It is followed by Hugo with 17.3% and Gatsby with 15.1%.

Astro 55.4%
Hugo 17.3%
Gatsby 15.1%
Jekyll 2.9%
Eleventy 1.2%
Sphinx 1.1%
Docusaurus 0.9%
Hexo 0.9%
VuePress 0.8%
Pelican 0.7%
VitePress 0.7%
MkDocs 0.4%
📖 Pandoc 0.4%
GitBook 0.4%
Other 1.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Hugo ^(-1)
5. Eleventy ^(-5)
6. Sphinx ^(-2)
8. Hexo ^(-1)
9. VuePress ^(-7)
10. Pelican ^(-5)
11. VitePress ^(-1)
13. 📖 Pandoc ^(-8)
15. Gridsome ^(-4)
16. Quarto ^(-1)

✨ Best Static Site Generators

Below is a more detailed list of 24 static site generators used on sites from Japan, 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	55.4%
2	Hugo A static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization. FreeOpen source	17.3%
3	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	15.1%
4	Jekyll A static site generator written in Ruby. FreeOpen source	2.9%
5	Eleventy Bentonville, Arkansas, United States A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript. FreeOpen source	1.2%
6	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	1.1%
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	0.9%
8	Hexo A Node.js-based static site generator that builds fast blog and documentation sites from Markdown content. FreeOpen source	0.9%
9	VuePress A static site generator based on Vue and Markdown for building documentation and content-focused websites. FreeOpen source	0.8%
10	Pelican United States A Python-based static site generator that transforms reStructuredText and Markdown content into static HTML websites. FreeOpen source	0.7%
11	VitePress A Vue-powered static site generator and successor to VuePress, built on top of the Vite build tool. FreeOpen source	0.7%
12	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	0.4%
13	📖 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%
14	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	0.4%
15	Gridsome A Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications. FreeOpen source	0.3%
16	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	0.3%
17	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	0.2%
18	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	0.2%
19	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%
20	HonKit An open-source tool for creating documentation using GitHub/Git and Markdown, a fork of GitBook. FreeOpen source	0.2%
21	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	0.1%
22	Zola A fast static site generator written in Rust. FreeOpen source	0.1%
23	Lume A fast and flexible static site generator built with Deno. FreeOpen source	0.1%
24	TypeDoc Germany A documentation generator for TypeScript projects that converts source-code comments into HTML documentation. FreeOpen source	0.1%

👉 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 201,037 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 38 static site generators across the web.
Of these, 24 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.