Websites Powered by Hugo
38,874 websites tracked using Hugo (Static site generator) · gohugo.io
Hugo is a static site generator that builds pages ahead of time. Its official site is gohugo.io. PoweredBy tracks the websites that use Hugo across the public web; the tracked counts, adoption trend, and site list on this page are updated from our ongoing crawl of the static site generator ecosystem.
Usage trend
5K
10K
15K
Apr 2018
May 2020
Jul 2022
Aug 2024
Sep 2026
Domains observed using Hugo in each month's HTTP Archive crawl,
Apr 2018 to Sep 2026 · peak 10,881 in Nov 2024. The tracked total above also
counts sites not re-crawled recently.
Core Web Vitals
LCP 1.4 s
INP 50 ms
CLS 0
TTFB 500 ms
Median site among 10,376 Hugo sites with Chrome UX data, p75 values, Sep 2026.
Top countries
United States
3,761
India
2,378
United Kingdom
2,209
Germany
1,897
France
1,740
Japan
1,568
Brazil
1,413
Canada
1,396
Sites using Hugo by audience country, Chrome UX Report.
Usage by industry
| Industry | Share | Websites |
|---|---|---|
| Blogs and publishing | 0.27% | 66 |
| Software and apps | 0.25% | 289 |
| Automotive | 0.24% | 164 |
| Games | 0.19% | 9 |
| Government | 0.12% | 10 |
| Legal | 0.12% | 29 |
| Professional services | 0.12% | 50 |
| Non-profit and religious | 0.12% | 9 |
| Education | 0.10% | 49 |
| Sports and fitness | 0.08% | 14 |
| Healthcare | 0.08% | 84 |
| Arts and entertainment | 0.07% | 30 |
Share of each industry's websites with a detected stack that use Hugo; industries come from what sites declare in their own structured data.
Top sites by authority
9+
9% · 32 of 372 sites
8+
4% · 277 of 7,677 sites
7+
1% · 608 of 45,712 sites
6+
<1% · 883 of 110,136 sites
5+
<1% · 1,182 of 246,751 sites
The share of the web's most authoritative domains, by Open Page Rank tier, seen running Hugo in recent crawls. Only 372 domains worldwide score 9 or higher.
Websites using Hugo
| # | Domain | Open Page RankOPR | Est. monthly visits (US)Visits (US) | Keywords | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wordpress.com | 9.50/10 | 461,400 | 54,845 | Nov 2018 |
| 2 | amazonaws.com | 9.50/10 | - | - | Sep 2021 |
| 3 | github.io | 9.43/10 | 1,800 | 1 | Aug 2018 |
| 4 | blogspot.com | 9.39/10 | - | - | Mar 2020 |
| 5 | qq.com | 9.34/10 | 2,200 | 163 | Jul 2026 |
| 6 | baidu.com | 9.33/10 | 27,100 | 321 | Aug 2026 |
| 7 | doi.org | 9.30/10 | 18,700 | 24,752 | Mar 2023 |
| 8 | zoom.us | 9.29/10 | 681,100 | 57,492 | Feb 2023 |
| 9 | tumblr.com | 9.27/10 | 5,070,300 | 1,588,775 | Jul 2022 |
| 10 | who.int | 9.26/10 | 3,114,700 | 778,407 | Jul 2026 |
| 11 | weebly.com | 9.24/10 | 162,400 | 11,089 | Jul 2022 |
| 12 | harvard.edu | 9.24/10 | 472,700 | 11,444 | Dec 2020 |
| 13 | apache.org | 9.21/10 | 35,700 | 6,177 | Oct 2018 |
| 14 | stanford.edu | 9.19/10 | 3,302,700 | 5,160 | Feb 2019 |
| 15 | mit.edu | 9.18/10 | 163,800 | 31,239 | Aug 2018 |
| 16 | nasa.gov | 9.15/10 | 2,697,400 | 289,920 | Aug 2018 |
| 17 | pages.dev | 9.14/10 | - | - | Jul 2021 |
| 18 | zendesk.com | 9.10/10 | 416,900 | 60,938 | Jul 2022 |
| 19 | berkeley.edu | 9.10/10 | 166,700 | 4,721 | Aug 2022 |
| 20 | cornell.edu | 9.10/10 | 140,600 | 19,190 | Jul 2022 |
| 21 | canada.ca | 9.08/10 | 2,129,800 | 995,010 | Nov 2018 |
| 22 | acm.org | 9.05/10 | 24,100 | 17,765 | Dec 2021 |
| 23 | vercel.app | 9.05/10 | - | - | Jun 2021 |
| 24 | free.fr | 9.05/10 | 3,400 | 1,262 | Jul 2022 |
| 25 | openstreetmap.org | 9.04/10 | 84,300 | 9,254 | Jun 2025 |
| 26 | columbia.edu | 9.02/10 | 768,900 | 38,656 | Aug 2018 |
| 27 | netlify.app | 9.01/10 | 2 | 2 | Jun 2020 |
| 28 | psu.edu | 9.01/10 | 580,400 | 80,390 | Aug 2018 |
| 29 | umich.edu | 9.01/10 | 36,500 | 1,974 | Dec 2019 |
| 30 | gitlab.com | 9.00/10 | 87,500 | 29,195 | May 2023 |
| 31 | uk.com | 9.00/10 | 2 | 12 | May 2026 |
| 32 | upenn.edu | 9.00/10 | 178,900 | 4,794 | Aug 2018 |
| 33 | princeton.edu | 8.98/10 | 244,600 | 46,551 | Aug 2022 |
| 34 | treasury.gov | 8.98/10 | 31,800 | 70,318 | Sep 2026 |
| 35 | wisc.edu | 8.97/10 | 461,200 | 6,382 | Oct 2020 |
| 36 | nginx.com | 8.96/10 | - | - | Aug 2021 |
| 37 | usgs.gov | 8.95/10 | 3,088,500 | 314,649 | Aug 2022 |
| 38 | ethz.ch | 8.95/10 | 12,900 | 11,869 | Dec 2020 |
| 39 | sakura.ne.jp | 8.95/10 | - | - | Jun 2022 |
| 40 | uchicago.edu | 8.92/10 | 63,700 | 10,331 | Apr 2019 |
| 41 | withgoogle.com | 8.91/10 | - | - | Jul 2019 |
| 42 | zoho.com | 8.90/10 | 564,300 | 147,943 | Aug 2024 |
| 43 | jimdofree.com | 8.88/10 | - | - | Apr 2023 |
| 44 | azurewebsites.net | 8.87/10 | - | - | Oct 2022 |
| 45 | appspot.com | 8.87/10 | - | - | Jun 2019 |
| 46 | fandom.com | 8.87/10 | 96,300 | 43,935 | Jul 2022 |
| 47 | cam.ac.uk | 8.87/10 | 208,200 | 35,354 | Sep 2023 |
| 48 | northwestern.edu | 8.86/10 | 193,400 | 45,922 | Nov 2019 |
| 49 | umd.edu | 8.85/10 | 253,200 | 15,103 | Jul 2022 |
| 50 | ufl.edu | 8.84/10 | 241,500 | 3,277 | Apr 2022 |
| 51 | getbootstrap.com | 8.83/10 | 229,800 | 179,100 | Feb 2020 |
| 52 | sap.com | 8.83/10 | 526,000 | 58,757 | Aug 2026 |
| 53 | uscourts.gov | 8.83/10 | 1,577,500 | 178,527 | Aug 2021 |
| 54 | git-scm.com | 8.82/10 | 385,800 | 86,466 | Oct 2024 |
| 55 | js.org | 8.82/10 | 2 | 5 | Aug 2018 |
| 56 | cnrs.fr | 8.82/10 | 4,300 | 2,992 | Jul 2022 |
| 57 | it.com | 8.81/10 | - | - | Aug 2025 |
| 58 | mpg.de | 8.81/10 | 59,700 | 20,903 | Jul 2026 |
| 59 | colorado.gov | 8.81/10 | 81,300 | 11,605 | Jul 2022 |
| 60 | nejm.org | 8.81/10 | 529,000 | 189,081 | Oct 2022 |
| 61 | utoronto.ca | 8.81/10 | 42,800 | 10,094 | Mar 2025 |
| 62 | fc2.com | 8.80/10 | 5,100 | 10 | Jun 2019 |
| 63 | nikkei.com | 8.79/10 | 1,900 | 2,469 | Aug 2018 |
| 64 | unhcr.org | 8.77/10 | 178,800 | 55,400 | Nov 2024 |
| 65 | letsencrypt.org | 8.76/10 | 17,600 | 9,187 | Feb 2018 |
| 66 | web.app | 8.76/10 | - | - | Apr 2020 |
| 67 | cern.ch | 8.76/10 | 950 | 261 | Mar 2023 |
| 68 | postgresql.org | 8.75/10 | 134,600 | 49,157 | Oct 2022 |
| 69 | ucl.ac.uk | 8.74/10 | 154,800 | 93,062 | Mar 2023 |
| 70 | epfl.ch | 8.74/10 | 12,900 | 6,546 | Jun 2020 |
| 71 | smugmug.com | 8.73/10 | 5,000 | 2,226 | May 2025 |
| 72 | kernel.org | 8.73/10 | 29,000 | 6,432 | May 2026 |
| 73 | brown.edu | 8.73/10 | 376,500 | 23,950 | Jan 2023 |
| 74 | virginia.edu | 8.73/10 | 265,100 | 10,889 | Apr 2019 |
| 75 | r-project.org | 8.72/10 | 37,500 | 4,317 | Aug 2018 |
| 76 | colorado.edu | 8.72/10 | 585,400 | 165,595 | Mar 2025 |
| 77 | digitalocean.com | 8.71/10 | 221,000 | 121,251 | Jul 2021 |
| 78 | gohugo.io | 8.71/10 | 29,800 | 4,190 | Jul 2016 |
| 79 | uwaterloo.ca | 8.71/10 | 224,700 | 71,840 | Sep 2022 |
| 80 | ucsb.edu | 8.71/10 | 73,800 | 11,445 | Apr 2025 |
| 81 | u-tokyo.ac.jp | 8.71/10 | 25,200 | 7,795 | Oct 2020 |
| 82 | ghost.org | 8.70/10 | 9,500 | 5,676 | Jan 2021 |
| 83 | ucsf.edu | 8.70/10 | 161,700 | 52,728 | Jul 2022 |
| 84 | mcgill.ca | 8.70/10 | 403,000 | 145,097 | Aug 2022 |
| 85 | joinmastodon.org | 8.68/10 | 6,500 | 1,959 | Jan 2019 |
| 86 | carrd.co | 8.68/10 | 57,600 | 5,248 | Sep 2026 |
| 87 | gatech.edu | 8.68/10 | 128,100 | 22,038 | Jul 2022 |
| 88 | overheid.nl | 8.68/10 | 690 | 96 | Apr 2025 |
| 89 | eclipse.org | 8.67/10 | 95,100 | 12,882 | Aug 2018 |
| 90 | af.mil | 8.67/10 | 983,100 | 88,532 | Nov 2023 |
| 91 | esa.int | 8.67/10 | 412,100 | 94,679 | Jul 2024 |
| 92 | modelcontextprotocol.io | 8.66/10 | 37,100 | 17,258 | Sep 2025 |
| 93 | altervista.org | 8.66/10 | - | - | Jan 2021 |
| 94 | ndl.go.jp | 8.65/10 | 11,900 | 3,100 | Oct 2020 |
| 95 | caltech.edu | 8.65/10 | 148,200 | 20,173 | Aug 2022 |
| 96 | uga.edu | 8.65/10 | 234,500 | 2,950 | Jul 2021 |
| 97 | insee.fr | 8.65/10 | 25,500 | 15,430 | Jun 2022 |
| 98 | usp.br | 8.65/10 | 1 | 19 | Sep 2025 |
| 99 | paris.fr | 8.65/10 | 24,100 | 12,376 | Jul 2022 |
| 100 | gitlab.io | 8.64/10 | - | - | Aug 2018 |
Open Page Rank is the domain's authority score (0 to 10, from the open web link graph); the list is ordered by it and covers sites seen in recent crawls. Visits and keywords are estimated US organic search figures.
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Columns: domain, Open Page Rank, first seen, last seen, industry (from the site's own structured data, blank when none).