Hugo

Category - Static Site Generator

Hugo is an open source static site generator.

Technology usage statistics

Websites using Hugo 9,432 websites
Most popular in the country United States of America
Market position in Static Site Generator #2
Market share in Static Site Generator 30.41%
Most popular version 0.54.0

Technology adoption

Recent changes in Hugo usage. (See Hugo Usage Changes report)
Websites that added Hugo +217
Websites that dropped Hugo -306
Websites that changed version of Hugo 1,051

Distribution by websites popularity

Hugo detection in the top websites by popularity
Top 10k sites 18 websites
Top 100k sites 87 websites
Top 1m sites 1,060 websites

Websites utilizing Hugo

Top websites that use Hugo

Domain Country Rank Contacts
www.smashingmagazine.com United States of America 561
notepad-plus-plus.org United States of America 677
www.haiku-os.org United States of America 2,259
www.expressvpn.com United States of America 2,396
letsencrypt.org United States of America 2,730
manjaro.org Germany 3,045
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Market Share

Hugo market share within the Static Site Generator category

Geographical Distribution

Technology usage distribution by websites across the globe.






Versions (by popularity)

  • 0.54.0 (9.01%)
  • 0.55.6 (4.56%)
  • 0.53 (4.27%)
  • 0.72.0 (4.21%)
  • 0.73.0 (3.79%)
  • 0.74.3 (3.55%)
  • 0.68.3 (3.01%)
  • 0.59.1 (2.44%)
  • 0.70.0 (2.43%)
  • 0.58.3 (2.37%)

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Always Used together


Go: Total 15,235 domains found using Go
Category - Programming Languages. 4,955,668 domains found using Programming Languages


Hugo often used together with


Category - Programming Languages.
Go is used together with Hugo on 9,432 domains. Total 15,235 domains found using Go
Category - Document Encoding.
UTF-8 is used together with Hugo on 9,090 domains. Total 8,486,158 domains found using UTF-8
Category - Document Standards.
HTML5 Tags is used together with Hugo on 8,802 domains. Total 4,203,578 domains found using HTML5 Tags
Category - Document Standards.
JavaScript is used together with Hugo on 6,918 domains. Total 6,425,165 domains found using JavaScript
Category - JavaScript Libraries.
jQuery is used together with Hugo on 4,303 domains. Total 4,000,935 domains found using jQuery
Category - Document Standards.
X-UA-Compatible is used together with Hugo on 4,140 domains. Total 1,945,684 domains found using X-UA-Compatible


Alternative Technologies


Gatsby: Total 10,359 domains found using Gatsby
Gridsome: Total 435 domains found using Gridsome
Hexo: Total 1,502 domains found using Hexo
Jekyll: Total 7,819 domains found using Jekyll
Octopress: Total 742 domains found using Octopress
Pelican: Total 388 domains found using Pelican
VuePress: Total 285 domains found using VuePress
Phenomic: Total 27 domains found using Phenomic
Cecil: Total 4 domains found using Cecil
Saber: Total 21 domains found using Saber