How many companies use Hugo?

TechLeads currently detects Hugo on 40,239 websites. HTTP Archive's monthly crawl, a separate dataset, detected it on 31,233 pages in September 2026.

Who are Hugo's biggest competitors?

By number of websites, the largest Static site generator technologies besides Hugo are Next.js (1,036,081), Nuxt.js (363,162), Astro (134,385), Gatsby (26,323), Jekyll (10,439).

Which companies use Hugo?

Websites using Hugo include brave.com, git-scm.com, letsencrypt.org, openssl.org, joshmuller.ca, ethereum.org. The full list of 40,239 websites can be exported as a CSV for $29.

Hugo market share and customers

As of October 9, 2026, Hugo is used by 40,239 websites in the TechLeads index: 2.5% of all Static site generator detections, the 4th most-used of 29 Static site generator technologies.

40,239

websites using Hugo

2.5%

share of Static site generator

of 29 in Static site generator

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Hugo vs competitors in Static site generator

Websites using each technology in the TechLeads index, and its share of all Static site generator detections.

#	Technology	Websites	Share
1	Next.js	1,036,081	63.5%
2	Nuxt.js	363,162	22.3%
3	Astro	134,385	8.2%
4	Hugo	40,239	2.5%
5	Gatsby	26,323	1.6%
6	Jekyll	10,439	0.64%
7	Docusaurus	7,170	0.44%

Hugo usage over time

In HTTP Archive's monthly crawl of public websites, Hugo was detected on 31,233 pages in September 2026, down 8.8% from a year earlier (peak: 39,675). HTTP Archive is a separate dataset from the TechLeads index, so its numbers are not added to ours.

Same month, other Static Site Generator technologies in HTTP Archive: Jekyll 16,678, VitePress 5,641, SitePad 2,331, Hexo 2,199, VuePress 1,867.

Hugo customers by country

Based on country-code domains (such as .de or .co.uk); websites on .com and other generic domains are not assigned a country.

US192
FR25
GB22
DE21
CN12
JP10
CA10
ES8
BR8
CH8

Companies using Hugo

brave.com
git-scm.com
letsencrypt.org
openssl.org
joshmuller.ca · Josh's site
ethereum.org · ethereum.org
notepad-plus-plus.org
kubernetes.io
ghost.org
kde.org
memcached.org
krita.org

See all 40,239 websites using Hugo or download the full list as a CSV for $29.

How these numbers are calculated

TechLeads scans public websites and detects Hugo from signals in the page HTML, scripts, cookies, HTTP headers and DNS records. Market share is Hugo's website count divided by the website counts of all Static site generator technologies we track; a site using two Static site generator tools counts for both. Counts were last refreshed on October 9, 2026 and update daily.

FAQ

Hugo accounts for 2.5% of Static site generator detections in the TechLeads index (40,239 websites), which makes it the 4th most-used of 29 Static site generator technologies we track.