Open-Source Static Site Generator Index

Web development has significantly evolved over the past ten years. There are many frameworks and technologies that allow web developers to rapidly and effectively build websites. One of these are static site generators (SSG) and their open-source solutions. SSG open-source management systems have grown in popularity in recent years. As a result, we’ve launched a special index for open-source static site generators.

We automatically source the full list of open-source static site generators from jamstack.org and calculate daily updated metrics based on Github data. Then we include only top repos with 1000+ Github stars and 3+ active contributors (made commits in the repo in the last 12 months).

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Age	Github repo age in years
⭐️	Github repo stars
⑂	Github repo forks
NC	new contributors, who made their first commit in the repo in the last 12 months
AC	active contributors, who made commits in the repo in the last 12 months
TC	total contributors, who made commits in the repo since its inception
SG	annual star growth
ACG	annual active contributors growth
TCG	annual total contributors growth
HHI	the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index calculated by share of commits (decentralization metric)

Name	Age	⭐️	⑂	NC	AC	TC	SG	ACG	TCG	HHI
Next.js	7.0	112,430	24,813	593	733	2,961	23	-35	25	494
Nuxt	6.9	47,604	4,400	273	321	546	17	-34	100	1,618
Astro	2.5	35,543	1,834	242	284	592	76	-33	69	825
SvelteKit	3.0	16,215	1,549	136	184	457	57	-46	42	1,138
Docusaurus	6.3	48,053	7,379	115	149	1,077	27	-64	12	617
VitePress	3.4	9,054	1,557	117	143	262	60	-27	81	1,668
Gatsby	8.4	54,737	10,569	71	120	4,159	3	-61	2	362
UmiJS	5.9	14,442	2,620	62	87	463	12	-45	16	2,985
Sphinx	8.7	5,650	1,992	53	82	777	16	-35	7	2,380
Zola	6.8	11,614	838	52	69	380	25	-38	16	1,824
Hugo	10.2	69,185	7,366	31	42	808	12	-37	4	3,482
mdBook	8.2	14,997	1,465	32	42	295	42	-32	12	1,120
DocFX	8.3	3,625	819	29	37	236	15	-34	14	996
Jekyll	14.9	47,308	10,194	27	35	1,174	5	-35	2	1,441
Bridgetown	3.5	1,003	104	24	31	68	30	-39	55	6,442
Lume	3.1	1,484	64	25	30	53	95	-14	89	6,888
MkDocs	9.7	17,119	2,314	21	26	240	15	-47	10	1,757
Pelican	13.0	11,790	1,828	9	16	449	7	-48	2	1,088
Hakyll	13.8	2,602	416	6	15	223	5	-29	3	5,412
Docsify	6.9	25,070	5,643	7	13	187	17	-38	4	2,719
Nikola	11.5	2,478	448	4	11	235	7	-31	2	2,533
Eleventy	5.8	15,096	460	10	11	98	19	-65	11	7,525
VuePress	5.5	21,913	4,817	8	10	381	6	-63	2	2,723
Hexo	11.0	37,471	4,651	4	9	192	7	-55	2	3,521
R Markdown	9.7	2,712	964	3	9	116	9	-31	3	2,737
Middleman	14.2	6,969	763	5	8	198	2	-27	3	5,016
Bookdown (R)	7.9	3,467	1,246	3	7	108	14	-65	3	6,242
Cryogen	8.9	1,065	100	4	6	67	5	-46	6	1,602
Publii	5.3	5,612	377	3	6	21	14	-14	17	5,852
Cobalt	8.9	1,257	95	2	5	57	11	-29	4	3,400
Jigsaw	8.4	2,050	185	4	5	76	5	-50	6	3,576
Routify	4.0	1,761	82	3	5	11	13	-29	38	5,015
Nanoc	14.2	2,065	262	1	4	103	4	-64	1	8,961
Slate	10.0	35,469	22,187	1	4	145	3	-60	1	2,525
beautiful-jekyll	8.6	4,848	14,897	2	4	83	15	-67	3	6,407
Publish	3.8	4,630	325	2	4	38	12	-20	6	2,466
InkPaper	8.6	1,038	117	2	3	19	3	0	12	3,976
Lektor	7.8	3,701	317	1	3	95	4	-63	1	1,655
Blogdown	6.9	1,654	336	1	3	63	8	-77	2	7,806
WP2Static	6.8	1,322	250	1	3	42	9	-73	2	2,807
Sapper.js	5.8	7,059	449	1	3	125	0	-25	1	4,270

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