Hugo

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go that focuses on speed, flexibility and structured content organization.

It supports Markdown content, templating, configurable taxonomies, multilingual sites, image processing, Sass and JavaScript pipelines, pretty URLs, a live-reload development server, and shortcodes to insert elements such as videos, images and social media embeds.

According to our data, Hugo is the third most popular static site generator on the web.
It has 18.3% of the static site generator market share and is detected on 0.1% of all websites.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

💸 Pricing

Hugo is available for free.

Free ✔️ Open source

📊 Rankings and Market Share

🏆 Hugo Awards

⚡ Sites Built With Hugo

We have data on 5,525 websites that use the Hugo static site generator. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.

The highest rated site using Hugo is brave.com.

#WebsiteRankCountryLanguage
1 brave.com #1,368 English
2 git-scm.com #1,647 United States English
3 libreoffice.org #2,057 Germany American English
4 notepad-plus-plus.org #2,740 France English
5 datadoghq.com #5,850 United States English
6 numpy.org #6,981 English
7 playtika.com #7,447 English
8 treasury.gov #7,587 United States American English
9 newyorker.de #7,653 Germany German
10 krita.org #7,993 Germany English
11 crossref.org #8,271 United States American English
12 qgis.org #8,763 Finland English
13 pom.go.id #8,947 Indonesia Indonesian
14 educ.ar #12,226 Argentina Spanish
15 rclone.org #12,902 Finland English
16 creately.com #15,244 Australia English
17 smartsupp.com #16,357 Czech Republic English
18 letsencrypt.org #16,404 American English
19 ultrasurfing.com #16,430 English
20 liveagent.com #17,338 United States American English

📈 Usage Statistics

Most of the sites that use Hugo:

Most of the sites using Hugo are from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

  • United States 24.1%
  • Germany 12.7%
  • United Kingdom 7.4%
  • France 5.8%
  • Japan 4.3%
  • Netherlands 3.7%
  • Canada 3.3%
  • China 3%
  • Switzerland 2.7%
  • Other 33%

Most Hugo users speak English or German.

  • English 77.7%
  • German 5%
  • Japanese 2.5%
  • Chinese 2.4%
  • French 2.3%
  • Spanish 1.6%
  • Portuguese 1.2%
  • Russian 1.1%
  • Italian 1%
  • Other 5.2%

The Hugo static site generator is especially popular on .com, .org, and .net top-level domains.

  • .com 38.9%
  • .org 12.3%
  • .net 6%
  • .io 4.8%
  • .de 4.4%
  • .me 2.1%
  • .fr 1.3%
  • .co.uk 1.3%
  • .nl 1%
  • Other 27.9%

The primary market segments for websites utilizing Hugo include blogs and wiki, business, and software and hardware.

  • Blogs/Wiki 16.7%
  • Business 15.9%
  • Software/Hardware 13.8%
  • Internet Services 9.8%
  • Education/Reference 6.6%
  • Technical/Business Forums 6.4%
  • Technical Information 5.2%
  • Marketing/Merchandising 4%
  • Games 2.7%
  • Other 18.9%

🔢 Hugo Versions

The most common version of Hugo is 0.147, used by 5.5% of sites where versions were detected. In addition, 4.2% of sites use Hugo 0.152, and 3.4% use Hugo 0.111.

The Hugo version distribution shows significant fragmentation, with 73.4% of sites using versions other than the top ones.

  • 0.147 5.5%
  • 0.152 4.2%
  • 0.111 3.4%
  • 0.145 2.6%
  • 0.148 2.4%
  • 0.164 2.3%
  • 0.124 2.1%
  • 0.140 2.1%
  • 0.118 2%
  • Other 73.4%

🕵️ Similar Technologies

These are some of the best Hugo alternatives.

RankName
4
Jekyll

A static site generator written in Ruby.

FreeOpen source
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
7
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
12
VitePress

A Vue-powered static site generator and successor to VuePress, built on top of the Vite build tool.

FreeOpen source
16
VuePress

A static site generator based on Vue and Markdown for building documentation and content-focused websites.

FreeOpen source

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💬 Frequently Asked Questions

Is Hugo free?

Yes, it is a free static site generator.
It is also open source, and you can access its source code on GitHub.

Which country uses Hugo the most?

The majority of Hugo users are from the United States.

Who uses Hugo?

According to our data, Hugo is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as brave.com, git-scm.com, and libreoffice.org.

Is Hugo used on government websites?

Yes, for example, it is used by treasury.gov. In total, we found Hugo on 3 government sites in the United States.

Do academic institutions use Hugo?

Yes. Overall, we know of 7 academic websites in the United States that use Hugo.

How does Hugo stack up against the competition?

Hugo is one of the most popular static site generators, second only to Gatsby and Astro.

What are the alternatives to Hugo?

Alternatives and possible competitors to Hugo may include Jekyll, Docusaurus, and MkDocs.

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