Static Site Generator Tools

1. VitePress leads, on 44% of the sites using a static site generator tool, 2.2 times as many sites as Hexo.
2. Only 10 of the 42 static site generator tools we track run on more than 1% of these sites.
3. Among sites launched in September, Nikola rose to #7 from #11 in August.

#	Movement	Tool	Country	Share	Bar	Sites	90 days
1	–	VitePress Vue-based static site generator.		44%		864
2	–	Hexo Fast, simple static site generator powered by Node.js.		20%		386
3	–	Q Quartz Static site generator that publishes Obsidian notes as a linked digital garden.		13%		262
4	–	Z Zensical Static site generator from the Material for MkDocs team, focused on documentation and content sites.		5.9%		116
5		W Wryt		2.6%		52
6	▲2	P Pelican Python static site generator used for blogs and personal sites.		2.6%		51
7	–	P Pandoc Universal document converter that produces standalone HTML from markup formats.		2.1%		41
8	▼3	Rspress Static site generator for documentation sites, built on the Rspack bundler.		1.8%		35
9	▲4	N Nikola Nikola static site generator (getnikola.com)		1.2%		23
10	▼1	Org mode Plain-text outlining and document authoring system for Emacs, with an HTML exporter used to publish notes and websites.		1.1%		22

Share is of the 1,967 sites using a static site generator tool; a site can use more than one. Arrows compare each tool's rank among sites launched in September with August. The line is its share of new sites over 90 days. Showing the top 10 of 42.

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