The Best Static Site Generators

Based on github stars

Top 15 Most Popular Static Site Generators
by number of GitHub stars

 

Rank Change 2023 Apr Project Features Stars Activity Rating
1 - 1 Next.js JavaScript React 120,572 10.0 26.64%
2 - 2 Hugo Go 72,452 9.8 16.01%
3 - 3 Gatsby JavaScript React 55,016 9.3 12.16%
4 ↑ 5 nuxt - 51,906 9.9 11.47%
5 ↓ 4 Jekyll Ruby Liquid 48,287 8.7 10.67%
6 - 6 Hexo JavaScript 38,433 7.9 8.49%
7 - 7 VuePress JavaScript Vue 22,335 3.6 4.94%
8 - 8 eleventy 🕚⚡️ JavaScript Liquid 16,213 9.3 3.58%
9 - 9 Pelican Python Jinja2 12,239 8.9 2.70%
10 - 10 Gridsome JavaScript Vue 8,525 0.0 1.88%
11 - 11 Scully JavaScript Angular 2,556 0.0 0.56%
12 - 12 Nikola Python 2,548 7.9 0.56%
13 - 13 Sculpin PHP Markdown 1,456 5.8 0.32%
  • Rating - the percentage of stars of a particular project from the total number.
  • Activity - a relative number between 0 and 10 representing the commits activity of a project.
    9+ meaning that the project is amongst the top 10% of most actively developed projects.
    5+ meaning that the project is amongst the top 50% of most active projects.

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