⚡ Static Site Generators in New Zealand

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

New Zealand is an Oceanian country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our statistics, static site generators are used on 1% of websites from New Zealand.

Statistics based on 16K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Gatsby with an impressive share of 41.2%, followed by Astro with 36.4% and Hugo with 8.5%.

Gatsby 41.2%
Astro 36.4%
Hugo 8.5%
Jekyll 4.2%
Docusaurus 2.4%
Publii 2.4%
Eleventy 1.2%
Hexo 0.6%
Gridsome 0.6%
ReadMe 0.6%
Quarto 0.6%
mdBook 0.6%
GitBook 0.6%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Gatsby ^(-1)
6. Publii ^(-7)
7. Eleventy ^(-3)
8. Hexo ^(-1)
9. Gridsome ^(-10)
10. ReadMe ^(-1)
11. Quarto ^(-6)
12. mdBook ^(-6)

✨ Best Static Site Generators

Below is a more detailed list of 13 static site generators used on sites from New Zealand, 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	41.2%
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	36.4%
3	Hugo A static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization. FreeOpen source	8.5%
4	Jekyll A static site generator written in Ruby. FreeOpen source	4.2%
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	2.4%
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	2.4%
7	Eleventy Bentonville, Arkansas, United States A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript. FreeOpen source	1.2%
8	Hexo A Node.js-based static site generator that builds fast blog and documentation sites from Markdown content. FreeOpen source	0.6%
9	Gridsome A Vue.js powered Jamstack framework for building statically generated websites and applications. FreeOpen source	0.6%
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	0.6%
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	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	0.6%
13	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%

👉 See Also

🌎 Static Site Generators in other countries
- United Kingdom
- Israel

🗃️ 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 16,771 websites from New Zealand.
We currently track the presence of 38 static site generators across the web.
Of these, 13 were detected on websites from New Zealand.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.