⚡ Static Site Generators in Portugal

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

Portugal is a Southern European country with a population of around 10.3 million people.

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

Statistics based on 15K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Astro with an impressive share of 39.8%, followed by Hugo with 31.3% and Gatsby with 13.3%.

Astro 39.8%
Hugo 31.3%
Gatsby 13.3%
Jekyll 6%
Publii 2.4%
Hexo 1.2%
Eleventy 1.2%
📖 Docutils 1.2%
ReadMe 1.2%
Pelican 1.2%
GitBook 1.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Hugo ^(-1)
5. Publii ^(-7)
6. Hexo ^(-3)
7. Eleventy ^(-3)
8. 📖 Docutils ^(-11)
9. ReadMe ^(-2)
10. Pelican ^(-13)

✨ Best Static Site Generators

Below is a more detailed list of 11 static site generators used on sites from Portugal, 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	39.8%
2	Hugo A static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization. FreeOpen source	31.3%
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	13.3%
4	Jekyll A static site generator written in Ruby. FreeOpen source	6%
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	2.4%
6	Hexo A Node.js-based static site generator that builds fast blog and documentation sites from Markdown content. FreeOpen source	1.2%
7	Eleventy A high-performance, production-ready, open-source static site generator written in JavaScript. FreeOpen source	1.2%
8	📖 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	1.2%
9	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	1.2%
10	Pelican United States A Python-based static site generator that transforms reStructuredText and Markdown content into static HTML websites. FreeOpen source	1.2%
11	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	1.2%

👉 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 15,535 websites from Portugal.
We currently track the presence of 37 static site generators across the web.
Of these, 11 were detected on websites from Portugal.
Statistics were last calculated on June 19, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.