Static Site Generators Market Share & Usage Statistics (2026)
Next.js runs on 903,683 live websites, 68.5% of the 1,319,932 sites we detect using static site generators. Below, all 26 tools we detect in this category, ranked by live websites, with market share and 30-day adoption momentum.
Data updated Oct 19, 2026
- #1
Next.js
See which companies use Next.js, the React framework built by Vercel. 731,970 domains verified, with market share, company size, industry and country data.
Live websites903,683Market Share68.46%Top CountryUnited States - #2
Astro
Astro is an open-source web framework for content-driven sites, built on an islands architecture that ships minimal JavaScript by default.
Live websites332,356Market Share25.18%Top CountryUnited States - #3
Hugo
Hugo is an open-source static site generator written in Go, detected on 28,690 active domains including Datadog, GitLab, DigitalOcean, and Arm.
Live websites30,613Market Share2.32%Top CountryUnited States 
Gatsby
Gatsby is a React-based static site generator that builds content-driven sites at compile time, sourcing data through a GraphQL layer.
Live websites30,229Market Share2.29%Top CountryUnited States
Jekyll
Jekyll is the static site generator GitHub Pages builds natively, and the engine behind a large share of the developer documentation portals we detect.
Live websites8,191Market Share0.62%Top CountryUnited States
SitePad
Companies that use SitePad: our October 2026 crawl finds Softaculous's hosting-bundled website builder on 4,778 live domains, almost a quarter on Afrihost, including IUEA, Thekwini College and Bulawayo Polytechnic.
Live websites4,778Market Share0.36%Top CountrySouth Africa
VitePress
Companies that use VitePress: 1,970 live domains in our October 2026 crawl once Efty's domain-for-sale pages are removed, mostly docs sites such as Workato, Shopware and KNIME.
Live websites (cleaned)1,970Market Share0.15%Top CountryUnited States
Hexo
Companies that use Hexo: 1,218 live domains in our October 2026 crawl, mostly developer blogs and many in Chinese, plus company sites such as CKEditor, Avid's developer portal and Meteor's guide.
Live websites1,218Market Share0.09%Top CountryUnited States
Publii
Companies that use Publii: 1,013 live domains in our October 2026 crawl after removing 290 casino pages, mostly small firms' main sites such as PublishDrive, Unike Hoteller and Loves Data.
Live websites (cleaned)1,013Market Share0.08%Top CountryGermany
Eleventy
Companies that use Eleventy: at least 994 live domains in our October 2026 crawl, counting sites that keep its opt-in generator tag, from Northern Arizona University to Ookla and Daher.
Live websites994Market Share0.08%Top CountryUnited States
Static Site Generators Market Data
Adoption and 30-day momentum across 26 static site generators technologies, measured from our live detection crawl.
Biggest Movers
Expert Insight: Static Site Generators Market Share & Momentum
Two tools hold nine tenths of this category, but the counts underneath are floors rather than measurements.
We detect a static site generator on about 1.32M live sites, and Next.js and Astro take roughly 94% between them. Treat the ranking with more care than usual. A generator leaves a trace only if the build writes one, so a site whose theme drops that marker is invisible to us, and the tools in this category are not equally easy to spot.
Next.js at two thirds, Astro at a quarter
Next.js sits on roughly 68% of detected sites and Astro on about 25%. Hugo and Gatsby follow at about 2.3% each and nothing else clears 1%. The distance between the top and the bottom of this table is real, but it is wider than the products are: the tools at the top announce themselves in several ways, while several below them can only be found from a single build marker, so their counts are the deeper floors.
Growth is concentrated in the same two names
Next.js added roughly 29,700 domains over the latest 30 days and Astro about 16,200, together accounting for almost all the movement in the category. Hugo and VitePress added a few dozen each. Nothing here is a newly detected technology, so every one of these is growth on a base we already had rather than a first sighting.
The previous generation is the one giving ground
Gatsby lost about 840 more domains than it gained, the largest net loss in the category, with SitePad down about 310 and Jekyll about 100. Our switching data points the same way: the older React and Ruby generators are handing domains to the two leaders. The one corridor that runs against the leader is Astro's, which takes noticeably more from Next.js than it gives back.
Read these as floors, and read Hugo differently
Every count here undercounts, because a generator marker is trivial to remove and developers routinely customise the templates that emit it. That bites hardest on the tools whose only trace is that marker, so the smaller entries are further below their true size than the larger ones. It also means the detected population differs by tool: Hugo's base is the most developer-concentrated we measure anywhere, with software and IT companies making up more than a quarter of it, while the fastest-growing challenger skews heavily toward small budget-hosted sites. Same category, quite different customers.
Market Share
- NNext.js68.46%
- Astro25.18%
- Hugo2.32%
- Gatsby2.29%
- Jekyll0.62%
- SitePad0.36%
- …Others0.8%
Static Site Generators
FAQ.
What is Static Site Generators software?
Static Site Generators covers the tools a site can load or configure to handle this part of its stack. We detect one of the 26 static site generators tools in this category on 1,319,932 live sites. A detection means we found the technology on the site, which is not the same as a paid account.
What are the most popular static site generators platforms?
Across 1,319,932 detected sites, the most widely found static site generators tools are: Next.js (68.46% share, 903,683 sites), Astro (25.18% share, 332,356 sites), Hugo (2.32% share, 30,613 sites). Others we see regularly include Gatsby and Jekyll.
Which static site generators tool has the largest market share?
Next.js is the most widely detected static site generators tool at 68.46% share, on 903,683 sites. The largest share of those sites belongs to various companies, and to businesses in the 1-10 employee band.
Which industries use static site generators software the most?
The industries with the most detected sites in this category are Software Development, IT Services and IT Consulting, Technology, Information and Internet, Financial Services, Business Consulting and Services. Industry mix follows where these tools get installed, so a category carried by website builders or agency templates will lean toward the verticals those platforms serve rather than the vendor's target buyer.
Which countries have the highest adoption of static site generators tools?
We detect the most static site generators sites in United States, India, United Kingdom, Brazil, Germany. Country here is the company's registered location in our enriched data rather than where the site is served from, so read it as a ranking of markets rather than a measure of any single one.
How do I choose the right static site generators platform?
Start from your own size, industry and primary use case rather than from share. Next.js, Astro and Hugo are the three we detect most often in this category, which tells you what is common, not what fits you. Compare their integrations, pricing tiers and support commitments against the workflow you actually run, and check each vendor's own documentation for current capabilities.
How many companies use static site generators software?
TechnologyChecker.io detects static site generators tools on 1,319,932 live sites. That is a count of sites carrying the technology, not a count of paying customers, and a site running two tools in this category is counted under each. We crawl 2 billion+ URLs across 29.9M live business domains each sweep.
What is the source of this data?
TechnologyChecker.io's web crawling and technology detection platform. We've logged 2.12 billion total detections over 20+ years, covering 40,000+ technologies across the 29.9M live business domains we successfully crawl each sweep. Detection methods include JavaScript analysis, HTTP headers, HTML patterns, DNS records, and certificate transparency logs.