The Best Static Site Generators

Based on github stars

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

 

Rank Change 2023 Mar Project Features Stars Activity Rating
1 - 1 Next.js JavaScript React 119,092 10.0 26.55%
2 - 2 Hugo Go 71,721 9.7 15.99%
3 - 3 Gatsby JavaScript React 54,976 9.5 12.26%
4 5 nuxt - 51,037 9.9 11.38%
5 4 Jekyll Ruby Liquid 48,047 8.9 10.71%
6 - 6 Hexo JavaScript 38,216 8.1 8.52%
7 - 7 VuePress JavaScript Vue 22,271 5.3 4.97%
8 - 8 eleventy 🕚⚡️ JavaScript Liquid 16,000 9.1 3.57%
9 - 9 Pelican Python Jinja2 12,064 9.0 2.69%
10 - 10 Gridsome JavaScript Vue 8,519 0.0 1.90%
11 - 11 Scully JavaScript Angular 2,556 0.0 0.57%
12 - 12 Nikola Python 2,537 8.2 0.57%
13 - 13 Sculpin PHP Markdown 1,454 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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