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The world's fastest framework for building websites

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Hugo is an open-source static site generator written in Go, distributed under the Apache 2.0 License. It builds sites quickly, rendering large projects in seconds, and provides an advanced templating system for flexible site structures. It is commonly used for documentation, landing pages, corporate, government, nonprofit, education, news, event, and project sites.

Hugo includes multilingual content support, a taxonomy system, and an embedded development web server that reflects changes to content, structure, behavior, and presentation instantly. Its asset pipeline covers image processing (convert, resize, crop, rotate, adjust colors, apply filters, overlay text and images, extract EXIF data), JavaScript bundling with tree shaking and code splitting, Sass processing, and TailwindCSS support. The project is free to use, with an active community, forums for questions and help, and frequent releases.

12 alternatives to Hugo

Ranked by how well each tool replaces Hugo: shared features, audience, price and popularity.

  1. Hexo

    Fast, simple, and powerful blog framework powered by Node.js

    Covers 7 of 15 key features.

    Open source
    70 out of 100 match—

  2. Jekyll

    Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs

    Covers 3 of 15 key features.

    Free planOpen source
    64 out of 100 matchFree

  3. HTML5 UP

    Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 site templates designed by @ajlkn.

    Covers 4 of 15 key features.

    Free planOpen source
    63 out of 100 matchContact sales

  4. Docusaurus

    Build optimized websites quickly, focus on your content

    Covers 6 of 15 key features.

    62 out of 100 match—

  5. Gridsome

    A Jamstack framework for Vue.js that makes it easy to build static generated websites &amp

    Covers 1 of 15 key features.

    Free planOpen source
    61 out of 100 matchFree

  6. Wikidot

    A place to build wiki-based websites.

    Covers 2 of 15 key features.

    Free planOpen source
    61 out of 100 matchFree

  7. Joomla!

    Free and open-source content management system for publishing web content.

    Covers 3 of 15 key features.

    Free planOpen source
    60 out of 100 matchFree

  8. Nikola

    Static site generator: in goes content, out comes a website, ready to deploy.

    Covers 1 of 15 key features.

    Free planOpen source
    59 out of 100 matchFree

  9. Octopress

    A blogging framework for hackers.

    Covers 3 of 15 key features.

    Open source
    59 out of 100 match—

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    A list of static site generators for Jamstack sites, community-driven.

    Covers 2 of 15 key features.

    Free planOpen source
    59 out of 100 matchFree

  11. Bolt.new

    Build and scale websites and apps by describing what you want in chat.

    Covers 3 of 15 key features.

    Free plan
    58 out of 100 matchFree

  12. Pelican

    Static site generator powered by Python

    Covers 2 of 15 key features.

    Open source
    58 out of 100 match—