Pelican
Pelican is a Python-powered static site generator powered that requires no database or server-side logic.
According to our data, Pelican ranks 20th among the static site generators we track.
It has 0.3% of the static site generator market share and is present on 0.002% of all websites.
- 🏠 Website
- </> Source code
💸 Pricing
Pelican is available for free.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Static Site Generators
- Rank: 20
- Market share: 0.3%
⚡ Sites Powered by Pelican
We have data on 57 websites that use the Pelican static site generator. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Pelican is aihabitat.org.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #269,348 | United States | English | |
| 2 | #429,127 | United States | English | |
| 3 | #450,152 | Russia | English | |
| 4 | #468,870 | Germany | English | |
| 5 | #536,706 | English | ||
| 6 | #556,754 | Germany | English | |
| 7 | #698,802 | Portugal | Portuguese | |
| 8 | #816,407 | Taiwan | Chinese | |
| 9 | English | |||
| 10 | #885,252 | Germany | German | |
| 11 | #1,439,135 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 12 | #1,607,939 | Germany | English | |
| 13 | #2,451,972 | English | ||
| 14 | #2,530,962 | English | ||
| 15 | English | |||
| 16 | #4,136,778 | English | ||
| 17 | English | |||
| 18 | English | |||
| 19 | United States | American English | ||
| 20 | Netherlands | English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Pelican:
- are located in Germany
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Technical/Business Forums category.
Most of the sites using Pelican are from Germany, the United States, and France.
- Germany 27.8%
- United States 27.8%
- France 8.3%
- Netherlands 5.6%
- United Kingdom 5.6%
- Canada 2.8%
- China 2.8%
- Denmark 2.8%
- Italy 2.8%
- Other 13.7%
Most Pelican users speak English, German, or French.
- English 80.7%
- German 7%
- French 3.5%
- Chinese 3.5%
- Japanese 1.8%
- Portuguese 1.8%
- Danish 1.8%
The Pelican static site generator is especially popular on .com, .org, and .net top-level domains.
- .com 33.3%
- .org 17.5%
- .net 8.8%
- .de 8.8%
- .fr 3.5%
- .me 3.5%
- .io 1.8%
- .dev 1.8%
- .tw 1.8%
- Other 19.2%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Pelican include technical, business forums, technical information, and business.
- Technical/Business Forums 25%
- Technical Information 25%
- Business 12.5%
- Blogs/Wiki 12.5%
- Personal Pages 12.5%
- Software/Hardware 12.5%
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Can I use Pelican for free?
Yes, it is a free static site generator.
Moreover, it is an open-source solution, and you can access its source code on 
GitHub.
Which country uses Pelican the most?
The majority of Pelican users are from Germany.
Who uses Pelican?
According to our data, Pelican is used on at least 57 sites, including such established ones as aihabitat.org,
python-excel.org, and
notesalexp.org.
How does Pelican compare to its competitors?
Pelican is a moderately popular static site generator, ranking ahead of 16 other static site generators we track.
Jamstack🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.