Static Site Generators Market Share & Usage Statistics (2026)

Next.js runs on 731,970 live websites, 66.6% of the 1,099,131 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 Aug 19, 2026

  • A favicon of Next.js
    #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 websites731,970Market Share66.6%Top CountryUnited States
  • A favicon of Astro
    #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 websites287,180Market Share26.13%Top CountryUnited States
  • A favicon of Gatsby
    #3

    Gatsby

    Gatsby is a React-based static site generator that builds content-driven sites at compile time, sourcing data through a GraphQL layer.

    Live websites29,767Market Share2.71%Top CountryUnited States
  • A favicon of Hugo

    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 websites28,690Market Share2.61%Top CountryUnited States
  • A favicon of Jekyll

    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 websites7,537Market Share0.69%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

Net domains gained or lost in the last 30 days — 21 of 26 technologies moved.
Top gainers
Top losers

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.

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David ThomsonCTO, TechnologyChecker
Data as of 2026-08-19 · Reviewed 2026-08-27

We detect a static site generator on about 1.1M live sites, and Next.js and Astro take roughly 93% 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.

Market share

Next.js at two thirds, Astro at a quarter

Next.js sits on roughly 67% of detected sites and Astro on about 26%. Gatsby and Hugo follow near 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.

Movers

Growth is concentrated in the same two names

Next.js added roughly 22,600 domains over the latest 30 days and Astro about 4,300, together accounting for almost all the movement in the category. Hugo and VitePress added a few hundred 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.

Churn

The previous generation is the one giving ground

Gatsby lost about 560 more domains than it gained, the only meaningful net loss in the category, with Jekyll and Gridsome slightly down as well. 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.

Trend

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.

Static Site Generators Overview
Active Domains1.1MRunning static site generators tech
Technologies26Tracked in this category
Net 30-Day Growth+26,78948,654 adopted · 21,865 dropped
Domain Index29.9MLive business domains crawled

Market Share

Next.js leads with 66.6% of active domains
  • NNext.js66.6%
  • A favicon of AstroAstro26.13%
  • A favicon of GatsbyGatsby2.71%
  • A favicon of HugoHugo2.61%
  • A favicon of JekyllJekyll0.69%
  • A favicon of SitePadSitePad0.41%
  • …Others0.9%
Live detection data · as of 2026-08-19

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 1,099,131 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 1,099,131 detected sites, the most widely found static site generators tools are: Next.js (66.6% share, 731,970 sites), Astro (26.13% share, 287,180 sites), Gatsby (2.71% share, 29,767 sites). Others we see regularly include Hugo and Jekyll.

Which static site generators tool has the largest market share?

Next.js is the most widely detected static site generators tool at 66.6% share, on 731,970 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 Gatsby 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 1,099,131 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.