Hugo vs Jekyll

Hugo is used by more websites in our catalog: 1,112 use Hugo and 347 use Jekyll.

Jekyll sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Hugo: 39, Jekyll: 50).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Hugo went from 0.15% to 0.13% of all tracked sites, while Jekyll went from 0.05% to 0.04%. Jekyll is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single JavaScript framework, so Hugo and Jekyll 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.