The Best Static Site Generators

Based on github stars

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

 

Rank Change 2024 May Project Features Stars Activity Rating
1 - 1 Next.js JavaScript React 131,986 10.0 27.20%
2 - 2 Hugo Go 80,896 9.8 16.67%
3 ↑ 4 nuxt - 57,072 9.9 11.76%
4 ↓ 3 Gatsby JavaScript React 55,855 8.5 11.51%
5 - 5 Jekyll Ruby Liquid 50,066 9.1 10.32%
6 - 6 Hexo JavaScript 40,332 7.5 8.31%
7 - 7 VuePress JavaScript Vue 22,753 2.1 4.69%
8 - 8 eleventy 🕚⚡️ JavaScript Liquid 18,153 9.6 3.74%
9 - 9 Pelican Python Jinja2 12,876 8.2 2.65%
10 - 10 Gridsome JavaScript Vue 8,554 0.0 1.76%
11 - 11 Nikola Python 2,657 6.8 0.55%
12 - 12 Scully JavaScript Angular 2,553 0.0 0.53%
13 - 13 Sculpin PHP Markdown 1,470 5.2 0.30%
  • 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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