Docusaurus vs Hugo

Hugo is used by more websites in our catalog: 163 use Docusaurus and 1,068 use Hugo.

Docusaurus sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Docusaurus: 71, Hugo: 39).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Docusaurus went from 0.02% to 0.02% of all tracked sites, while Hugo went from 0.14% to 0.12%. Docusaurus is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single CMS / website platform, so Docusaurus and Hugo are mutually exclusive.

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.