Static site generators in the UK: market share ranking

Generators that build HTML ahead of time.

#	Technology	United Kingdom	Global	Netherlands	Italy	Spain	Japan	Latin America
1	Astro	0.7%	1.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.9%
2	Gatsby	0.3%	0.4%	<0.1%	0.1%	0.4%	<0.1%	0.2%
3	Hugo	<0.1%	0.2%	<0.1%	<0.1%	<0.1%	<0.1%	<0.1%
4	Eleventy	<0.1%	<0.1%	0%	<0.1%	0%	0%	0%
5	Jekyll	0%	<0.1%	<0.1%	0%	<0.1%	<0.1%	<0.1%
6	Docusaurus	0%	<0.1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
7	VitePress	0%	<0.1%	<0.1%	0%	0%	<0.1%	0%
8	Sphinx	0%	<0.1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
9	MkDocs	0%	<0.1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%

By site popularity

Share of measured sites in each Tranco popularity band that use the technology: the top 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000 sites and the whole top million.

#	Technology	Top 10K	Top 100K	Top 1M
1	Gatsby	1.5%	0.5%	0.3%
2	Astro	0%	1.5%	0.7%
3	Hugo	0%	0%	<0.1%
	Sites measured	66	931	11,909

Popular sites vs local business websites

Popular: sites of United Kingdom from the Tranco top million. Local business: websites of companies with 1–20 locations in the country, taken from a business places directory (platforms, marketplaces and aggregators excluded).

#	Technology	Popular sites	Local business	Difference, pp
	Any Static site generators	1%	1%	−0.1
1	Astro	0.7%	0.8%	+0.1
2	Gatsby	0.3%	<0.1%	−0.2
3	Hugo	<0.1%	<0.1%	0
4	Jekyll	0%	<0.1%	0
	Sites measured	11,909	21,114

Our crawler: 11,909 sites · United Kingdom · updated 23 Oct 2026 · Methodology