⚡ 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 0.3% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 160K+ 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 with an impressive share of 45.1%, followed by Hugo with 21.2% and Gatsby with 19.3%.

Astro 45.1%
Hugo 21.2%
Gatsby 19.3%
Jekyll 3.7%
Eleventy 1.9%
Sphinx 1.3%
Hexo 1%
VitePress 1%
Docusaurus 1%
VuePress 0.8%
Quarto 0.6%
MkDocs 0.6%
Lume 0.6%
HonKit 0.4%
Other 1.5%

🚀 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 ^(-6)
6. Sphinx ^(-2)
7. Hexo ^(-2)
8. VitePress ^(-5)
10. VuePress ^(-5)
11. Quarto ^(-6)
13. Lume ^(-13)
14. HonKit ^(-17)
17. Pelican ^(-3)

✨ Best Static Site Generators

Below is a more detailed list of 21 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	45.1%
2	Hugo A static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization. FreeOpen source	21.2%
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	19.3%
4	Jekyll A static site generator written in Ruby. FreeOpen source	3.7%
5	Eleventy A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript. FreeOpen source	1.9%
6	Sphinx A documentation generator written and used by the Python community. FreeOpen source	1.3%
7	Hexo A Node.js-powered static site generator. FreeOpen source	1%
8	VitePress A Vue.js-powered static site generator and successor to VuePress, built on top of the Vite build tool. FreeOpen source	1%
9	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%
10	VuePress A static site generator based on Vue.js and Markdown for building documentation and content-focused websites. FreeOpen source	0.8%
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	0.6%
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	0.6%
13	Lume A fast and flexible static site generator built with Deno. FreeOpen source	0.6%
14	HonKit An open-source tool for creating documentation using GitHub/Git and Markdown, a fork of GitBook. FreeOpen source	0.4%
15	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%
16	Gridsome A Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications. FreeOpen source	0.4%
17	Pelican A Python-powered static site generator powered that requires no database or server-side logic. FreeOpen source	0.2%
18	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	0.2%
19	Zola A fast static site generator written in Rust. FreeOpen source	0.2%
20	📖 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	0.2%
21	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%

👉 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 160,338 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 36 static site generators across the web.
Of these, 21 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.