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Jekyll is a popular, blog-aware static site generator that transforms plain text into beautiful, functional websites. Written in Ruby, Jekyll takes Markdown (or other markup languages) and templates, and generates a complete, static website ready to be served by any web server. Its simplicity, flexibility, and integration with version control systems like Git make it an excellent choice for personal, project, or organization sites. Jekyll's built-in support for blog posts, categories, and layouts, along with its extensive plugin ecosystem, allows developers to create sophisticated websites while maintaining the benefits of static site generation, such as improved security and faster load times.
Jekyll belongs toStatic site generatorcategory.
2websites
use it — 0.1% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months
#6of 8
tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 33)
1public pages
on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing
0.15% of all websites we track run Jekyll
Similar tools in its category
Static site generator: 33 tools known, 8 seen in our scans
Questions about Jekyll
- How many websites use Jekyll?
- We found Jekyll on 2 of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (0.1%). 1 of them have a public status page.
- What is Jekyll often used with?
- Among the websites we scan, Jekyll is often found alongside Ahrefs (50% of its sites), Amazon CloudFront (50% of its sites), AWS Certificate Manager (50% of its sites).
- What are the alternatives to Jekyll?
- Other static site generator tools we recognize include Next.js, Nuxt.js, Astro, Gatsby.
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