Jekyll

Jekyll is a static site generator written in Ruby.

It uses the Liquid templating language, supports front-matter metadata and data files in YAML, JSON, and CSV formats, includes a plugin system with custom converters and generators, and offers incremental regeneration to speed up build times.

According to our data, Jekyll is the 4th most popular static site generator on the web.
It has 9.9% of the static site generator market share and is present on 0.06% of all websites.

💸 Pricing

Jekyll is available for free.

Free ✔️Open source

📊 Rankings and Market Share

🏆 Jekyll Awards

⚡ Sites Powered by Jekyll

We have data on 2,012 websites that use the Jekyll static site generator. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.

The highest rated site using Jekyll is home-assistant.io.

#WebsiteRankCountryLanguage
1 home-assistant.io #2,326 Switzerland English
2 idaho.gov #3,491 United States American English
3 etimad.sa #10,456 Saudi Arabia Arabic
4 brew.sh #12,723 United Kingdom English
5 plausible.io #15,399 Estonia English
6 termux.dev #17,950 English
7 catalogueoflife.org #21,588 Denmark English
8 mpc-hc.org #25,736 Greece English
9 iith.ac.in #25,853 India English
10 endoflife.date #25,862 American English
11 tsp.gov #25,881 United States American English
12 dontkillmyapp.com #26,441 Czech Republic English
13 fabricmc.net #30,088 United Kingdom English
14 thepythoncorner.com #33,259 English
15 duckdb.org #35,156 English
16 pages.github.com United States English
17 getsharex.com #40,569 English
18 squeak.org #50,980 Germany English
19 france-identite.gouv.fr #52,128 France French
20 fcix.net #52,841 United States English

📈 Usage Statistics

Most of the sites that use Jekyll:

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

  • United States 29.5%
  • United Kingdom 14%
  • Germany 7.9%
  • France 4.5%
  • Brazil 2.8%
  • Italy 2.6%
  • Netherlands 2.6%
  • Canada 2.5%
  • India 2.4%
  • Other 31.2%

Most Jekyll users speak English.

  • English 89.3%
  • Spanish 1.6%
  • German 1.3%
  • Chinese 1%
  • Portuguese 1%
  • Japanese 0.9%
  • Italian 0.8%
  • French 0.8%
  • Swedish 0.4%
  • Other 2.9%

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

  • .com 40.9%
  • .org 17.3%
  • .io 5.5%
  • .net 5.4%
  • .de 1.8%
  • .me 1.6%
  • .uk 1.5%
  • .co.uk 1.4%
  • .dev 1.2%
  • Other 23.4%

The primary market segments for websites utilizing Jekyll include blogs and wiki, software and hardware, and Internet services.

  • Blogs/Wiki 20.5%
  • Software/Hardware 13.9%
  • Internet Services 8.8%
  • Technical/Business Forums 8.8%
  • Business 8.3%
  • Education/Reference 8.3%
  • Technical Information 6.4%
  • Marketing/Merchandising 2.9%
  • Personal Pages 2.9%
  • Other 19.2%

🔢 Jekyll Versions

The most widespread version of Jekyll is 3.9, used by 26.6% of sites where versions were detected. In addition, 23.5% of sites use Jekyll 3.10, and 15.7% use Jekyll 4.3.

  • 3.9 26.6%
  • 3.10 23.5%
  • 4.3 15.7%
  • 3.8 9.1%
  • 4.2 7.4%
  • 4.4 6.4%
  • 4.0 5.1%
  • 4.1 3.6%
  • 3.7 1.7%
  • Other 0.9%

🕵️ Similar Technologies

These are some of the best Jekyll alternatives.

RankName
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
6
MkDocs

A fast and simple static site generator for building project documentation.

FreeOpen source
13
VitePress

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

FreeOpen source
15
VuePress

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

FreeOpen source
17
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

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💬 Frequently Asked Questions

Is Jekyll free?

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

Which country uses Jekyll the most?

The majority of Jekyll users are from the United States.

Who uses Jekyll?

According to our data, Jekyll is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as home-assistant.io, idaho.gov, and etimad.sa.

Is Jekyll used on government websites?

Yes, for example, it is used by idaho.gov and tsp.gov. Overall, we found Jekyll on 4 government sites in the United States.

Do academic institutions use Jekyll?

Yes. The most notable of these is iith.ac.in.

How does Jekyll compare to its competitors?

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

What are the alternatives to Jekyll?

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

👉 See Also

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