Is GitHub Pages or Hugo more popular?

Hugo is used by more websites in our catalog: 505 use GitHub Pages and 1,068 use Hugo.

Does GitHub Pages or Hugo have higher-authority sites?

GitHub Pages sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (GitHub Pages: 94, Hugo: 39).

Is GitHub Pages or Hugo growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, GitHub Pages went from 0.05% to 0.06% of all tracked sites, while Hugo went from 0.14% to 0.12%. GitHub Pages is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both GitHub Pages and Hugo?

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

Where does this GitHub Pages vs Hugo data come from?

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.

GitHub Pages vs Hugo — Site Stats Database

GitHub Pages vs Hugo

A side-by-side comparison of two content management systems, based on the 515,058 CMS sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	GitHub Pages	Hugo
Websites	505	1,068
Market share	0.10%	0.21%
Share of top 10K sites	0.01%	0.07%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#41	#27

Median DR	94	39

Average DR	94	41

Median keywords	333	887

Median referring domains	167	561

Median domain age	13 yrs	11 yrs

Average domain age	13 yrs	12 yrs

Average monthly traffic	17,746	43,550

Combined monthly traffic	8,961,780	46,511,181

cs231n.github.io
LanguageHungarian
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords457
Referring Domains3,623
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,918,719
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGitHub Pages
doodlecricket.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords2,549
Referring Domains871
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)591,885
Traffic Trend
Technology
classroomgame.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords1,226
Referring Domains0
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)500,460
Traffic Trend
Technology
r-roms.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords8,869
Referring Domains692
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)370,758
Traffic Trend
Technology
geometry-dash-unbanned.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords343
Referring Domains93
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)268,188
Traffic Trend
Technology
genizymath.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords1,426
Referring Domains4
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)259,761
Traffic Trend
Technology
thepizzaedition-games.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords430
Referring Domains2
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)165,664
Traffic Trend
Technology
emn178.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords4,165
Referring Domains2,387
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)140,295
Traffic Trend
Technology
powerlanguage-wordle.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords449
Referring Domains30
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)125,758
Traffic Trend
Technology
geometry-dashworld.github.io
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords270
Referring Domains129
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)123,973
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
cs231n.github.io	Hungarian	94	457	3,623	13 yrs	1,918,719		GitHub Pages

wumbo.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords39,007
Referring Domains1,229
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,922,257
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
clerk.chat
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords23,105
Referring Domains1,495
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,892,917
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
ropensci.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords2,103
Referring Domains4,218
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,018,439
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
wvu.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords178,823
Referring Domains46,225
Domain Age34 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,912,529
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
git-scm.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords25,518
Referring Domains85,916
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,768,595
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
brave.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords32,872
Referring Domains59,082
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,164,895
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
pgealerts.alerts.pge.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords7,782
Referring Domains1,225
Domain Age35 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,038,468
Traffic Trend
Technology
exceljet.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords50,278
Referring Domains7,394
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)940,958
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
oliveandmango.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)50
Total Keywords52,730
Referring Domains1,450
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)935,286
Traffic Trend
Technology
freegames.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)48
Total Keywords6,944
Referring Domains3,003
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)757,716
Traffic Trend
Technology