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Top 20 static site generators

Fast websites without a server

Updated 11 min ago · GitHub stars (stars)

Why these 20

Ranked by GitHub stars: how many developers bookmarked the project. Stars measure attention, not quality, so each row also shows forks, open issues, licence and the last push.

1

vercel/next.js

The React Framework

143,097 stars 35,274 forks3,709 open issuesJavaScriptlast push 2026-10-19MIT
2

gohugoio/hugo

The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

90,166 stars 8,392 forks211 open issuesGolast push 2026-10-19Apache-2.0
3

withastro/astro

The web framework for content-driven websites.

63,329 stars 3,861 forks124 open issuesTypeScriptlast push 2026-10-19NOASSERTION
4

nuxt/nuxt

The full-stack Vue framework.

60,975 stars 5,830 forks475 open issuesTypeScriptlast push 2026-10-19MIT
5

gatsbyjs/gatsby

React-based framework with performance, scalability, and security built in.

55,935 stars 10,101 forks457 open issuesJavaScriptlast push 2026-10-15MIT
6

jekyll/jekyll

:globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby

51,718 stars 10,302 forks255 open issuesRubylast push 2026-10-13MIT
7

hexojs/hexo

A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.

41,776 stars 51 forks77 open issuesTypeScriptlast push 2026-10-19MIT
8

vuejs/vuepress

📝 Minimalistic Vue-powered static site generator

22,716 stars 4,611 forks605 open issuesJavaScriptlast push 2024-08-07MIT
9

mkdocs/mkdocs

Project documentation with Markdown.

22,505 stars 2,658 forks191 open issuesPythonlast push 2025-10-20BSD-2-Clause
10

11ty/buildawesome

A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.

19,978 stars 591 forks164 open issuesJavaScriptlast push 2026-10-16MIT
11

decaporg/decap-cms

A Git-based CMS for Static Site Generators

19,440 stars 3,141 forks616 open issuesJavaScriptlast push 2026-10-18MIT
12

getzola/zola

A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org

17,522 stars 1,195 forks204 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-19EUPL-1.2
13

iamgio/quarkdown

🪐 Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books, and knowledge bases.

16,321 stars 523 forks26 open issuesKotlinlast push 2026-10-19GPL-3.0
14

shuding/nextra

Simple, powerful and flexible site generation framework with everything you love from Next.js.

13,938 stars 1,414 forks328 open issuesTypeScriptlast push 2026-07-31MIT
15

jackyzha0/quartz

🌱 a fast, batteries-included static-site generator that transforms Markdown content into fully functional websites

13,421 stars 4,132 forks88 open issuesTypeScriptlast push 2026-10-04MIT
16

getpelican/pelican

Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Powered by Python.

13,355 stars 1,826 forks104 open issuesPythonlast push 2026-10-13AGPL-3.0
17

stenciljs/core

A toolchain for building scalable, enterprise-ready component systems on top of TypeScript and Web Component standards. Stencil components can be...

13,145 stars 868 forks193 open issuesTypeScriptlast push 2026-10-18NOASSERTION
18

react-static/react-static

⚛️ 🚀 A progressive static site generator for React.

10,335 stars 739 forks1 open issuesJavaScriptlast push 2022-10-31MIT
19

getgridea/gridea

✍️ A static blog writing client (一个静态博客写作客户端)

10,227 stars 832 forks584 open issuesTypeScriptlast push 2023-07-26MIT
20

HugoBlox/kit

🧱 Describe your site, AI builds it, you own it as Markdown. Snap together Tailwind blocks like Lego — landing pages, blogs, portfolios, docs & more. No AI...

9,770 stars 2,952 forks24 open issuesHTMLlast push 2026-08-04MIT