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Fast static site generator written in Go, popular for blogs, docs sites, and personal homepages.

#7 of 42 in Meta Framework In our data since Apr 2026 Last seen: Oct 16, 2026 Most recent launch: Independent AI Product Studio · Nuvrilo, Oct 16, 2026 Website: gohugo.io

7,851 sites

7,700 found by StackScope, 151 via launch platforms

StackScope Wider Web 7,386 StackScope Discovery (Indie) 314 Product Hunt 73 Hacker News 35 PeerPush 26 Other 17
  • StackScope Wider Web 7,386
  • StackScope Discovery (Indie) 314
  • Product Hunt 73
  • Hacker News 35
  • PeerPush 26
  • Other 17
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Hugo appeared on about 2,200 new sites in the last 30 days.

These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.

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2,171 new sites with Hugo first seen in the last 30 days.

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Share of new sites using Hugo

Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average; weekly averages before July 2026.

0.1%
last 7 days
+0.0pp vs prior week
0.1%
30 days to Oct 15
-0.0pp vs 30 days before
7,851
sites all time
since Apr 2026
Hugo daily detection trend Before 8 July 2026: launch platforms only. We began crawling the wider web on this date, so the cohort this share is measured against changes here. 10 September 2026: we improved our infrastructure to index new sites much sooner, often on the day they go live, so the cohort this share is measured against changes here. 5% 2% 0% Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Weekly averages before this point, daily after. Jul 18 · 33 / 24723 = 0.1% Jul 19 · 53 / 27645 = 0.2% Jul 20 · 32 / 23868 = 0.1% Jul 21 · 28 / 22945 = 0.1% Jul 22 · 39 / 24372 = 0.2% Jul 23 · 30 / 18101 = 0.2% Jul 24 · 16 / 13980 = 0.1% Jul 25 · 13 / 9550 = 0.1% Jul 26 · 25 / 21752 = 0.1% Jul 27 · 38 / 37234 = 0.1% Jul 28 · 70 / 41886 = 0.2% Jul 29 · 71 / 53564 = 0.1% Jul 30 · 61 / 48258 = 0.1% Jul 31 · 67 / 56048 = 0.1% Aug 1 · 68 / 54890 = 0.1% Aug 2 · 76 / 53852 = 0.1% Aug 3 · 58 / 52615 = 0.1% Aug 4 · 55 / 40704 = 0.1% Aug 5 · 43 / 35348 = 0.1% Aug 6 · 53 / 39149 = 0.1% Aug 7 · 54 / 40250 = 0.1% Aug 8 · 42 / 42805 = 0.1% Aug 9 · 84 / 37777 = 0.2% Aug 10 · 26 / 32324 = 0.1% Aug 11 · 46 / 34557 = 0.1% Aug 12 · 48 / 37135 = 0.1% Aug 13 · 70 / 55469 = 0.1% Aug 14 · 69 / 56755 = 0.1% Aug 15 · 65 / 55907 = 0.1% Aug 16 · 72 / 56270 = 0.1% Aug 17 · 63 / 45809 = 0.1% Aug 18 · 75 / 56662 = 0.1% Aug 19 · 63 / 51684 = 0.1% Aug 20 · 93 / 68977 = 0.1% Aug 21 · 119 / 93849 = 0.1% Aug 22 · 110 / 94192 = 0.1% Aug 23 · 134 / 93593 = 0.1% Aug 24 · 91 / 81709 = 0.1% Aug 25 · 73 / 71532 = 0.1% Aug 26 · 87 / 66856 = 0.1% Aug 27 · 93 / 87835 = 0.1% Aug 28 · 142 / 87905 = 0.2% Aug 29 · 85 / 88063 = 0.1% Aug 30 · 137 / 100668 = 0.1% Aug 31 · 146 / 100238 = 0.1% Sep 1 · 105 / 103415 = 0.1% Sep 2 · 89 / 108914 = 0.1% Sep 3 · 321 / 103276 = 0.3% Sep 4 · 589 / 98533 = 0.6% Sep 5 · 344 / 102853 = 0.3% Sep 6 · 141 / 89272 = 0.2% Sep 7 · 100 / 86119 = 0.1% Sep 8 · 81 / 77965 = 0.1% Sep 9 · 74 / 75515 = 0.1% Sep 10 · 80 / 83653 = 0.1% Sep 11 · 105 / 85552 = 0.1% Sep 12 · 55 / 56764 = 0.1% Sep 13 · 66 / 57989 = 0.1% Sep 14 · 49 / 59224 = 0.1% Sep 15 · 66 / 58180 = 0.1% Sep 16 · 45 / 58965 = 0.1% Sep 17 · 67 / 56747 = 0.1% Sep 18 · 79 / 53080 = 0.1% Sep 19 · 60 / 45270 = 0.1% Sep 20 · 61 / 44755 = 0.1% Sep 21 · 31 / 51661 = 0.1% Sep 22 · 49 / 55402 = 0.1% Sep 23 · 50 / 58308 = 0.1% Sep 24 · 50 / 53459 = 0.1% Sep 25 · 42 / 50759 = 0.1% Sep 26 · 347 / 101516 = 0.3% Sep 27 · 65 / 52131 = 0.1% Sep 28 · 66 / 61107 = 0.1% Sep 29 · 77 / 77850 = 0.1% Sep 30 · 90 / 69709 = 0.1% Oct 1 · 71 / 69222 = 0.1% Oct 2 · 71 / 64730 = 0.1% Oct 3 · 45 / 53733 = 0.1% Oct 4 · 70 / 52052 = 0.1% Oct 5 · 50 / 63687 = 0.1% Oct 6 · 49 / 67585 = 0.1% Oct 7 · 49 / 67656 = 0.1% Oct 8 · 63 / 69310 = 0.1% Oct 9 · 86 / 70361 = 0.1% Oct 10 · 67 / 60636 = 0.1% Oct 11 · 89 / 65593 = 0.1% Oct 12 · 54 / 66628 = 0.1% Oct 13 · 69 / 70942 = 0.1% Oct 14 · 71 / 70655 = 0.1% Oct 15 · 88 / 93489 = 0.1%
Mar 30, 2026 90 days Oct 15, 2026

The shaded areas were measured against a different set of sites, so the line can step there without Hugo itself changing.

Coverage details

Before the dashed line where the dots begin, the line is a weekly average. After it, the last 90 days are shown one day at a time.

Grey: before 8 July 2026, we only tracked launches from launch platforms. From that date we crawl the wider web as well.

Amber: 8 July to 10 September 2026, before we improved our infrastructure to index new sites much sooner, often on the day they go live. Sites found that early often haven't finished setting up, so anything usually added after launch reads lower from 10 September. We record each site as it was when we found it.

The share is a proportion of whatever we were tracking at the time. For a single continuous measure, switch to launch platforms.

How StackScope detects technologies

What kind of sites use Hugo

1,609 sites with a known type, all time

Developer Tools
20.7%
Productivity
12.7%
Education
11.8%
Content
9.0%
Health
8.2%
Games
8.0%
Finance
7.6%
AI
6.0%
Social
4.6%
E-commerce
4.1%
Marketing
2.7%
Design
2.0%
Directory
1.4%
Hiring & HR
0.9%
Crypto
0.6%

Domain endings using Hugo

7,841 sites, all time

  • .com 39.5%
  • .xyz 15.0%
  • .fr 8.4%
  • .dev 6.9%
  • .org 4.3%
  • .net 2.5%
  • .me 2.4%
  • .ca 2.3%
  • .uk 2.2%
  • .app 1.9%
  • .io 1.5%
  • .ai 1.3%
  • .online 1.1%
  • .site 0.9%
  • .in 0.8%

Country

Country likely for 1,432 of 7,851 sites (18.2%), all time.

How we know

Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.

  • France France 46.1%
  • United Kingdom United Kingdom 10.3%
  • Canada Canada 9.3%
  • United States United States 5.5%
  • Germany Germany 3.6%
  • India India 3.0%
  • Ireland Ireland 2.5%
  • Thailand Thailand 2.2%
  • Switzerland Switzerland 2.2%
  • Netherlands Netherlands 2.0%
  • Sweden Sweden 1.7%
  • Australia Australia 1.6%
  • China China 1.6%
  • Brazil Brazil 1.3%
  • Spain Spain 0.7%

Green hosting

151 checked sites since Apr 2026.

What this means

The share whose web host The Green Web Foundation lists as running on green energy, against the average for every new site we checked.

  • Hugo 64%
  • Average 47%

Meta Framework leaders

Tool % of sitesall time % of categoryall time
#1 – Next.js 13.8% 61.7%
#2 – TanStack Start 4.3% 19.0%
#3 – Astro 2.1% 9.6%
#4 – vinext 1.4% 6.2%
#5 – Nuxt 0.9% 4.0%
…
#7 ▲1 Hugo Current page 0.1% 0.6%

Percentages show all-time adoption across the new sites we track: the share of all of them, and of the sites using any Meta Framework tool. All 42 in Meta Framework → Related categories: Framework, Static Site Generator

Often used with

Tool Sites vs all new sites
AWS S3 1,174 21x
AWS CloudFront 1,198 14x
Porkbun DNS 1,221 8.3x

Tools that turn up far more often on Hugo sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.

Recent launches using Hugo

465 of the 7,851 sites using Hugo are product launches we list individually. The other 7,386 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one. They are included in the StackScope API and in Stackdar alerts. How StackScope Discovery works

Independent AI Product Studio · Nuvrilo Oct 16, 2026 · AI Also detected Cloudflare No Cap Workshop — Three free days of practitioner-led sessions on meeting FedRAMP's VDR rules before the December 7, 2026 deadline. Oct 16, 2026 · Finance Also detected GitHub Pages Cloudflare Fastly FolioInsight – Your Sharesight portfolios, at a glance Oct 16, 2026 · Finance Also detected Cloudflare Peaceful Plans · Your final chapter, well told Oct 16, 2026 Also detected Cloudflare Google Analytics Google Search Console Google Tag Manager EAMStream Oct 16, 2026 · Education Also detected Cloudflare Potted Parent — Every plant. One page. The whole truth. Oct 15, 2026 · Health Also detected Cloudflare Google Analytics Google Search Console Google Tag Manager keybars: a music equaliser on your keyboard Oct 15, 2026 Also detected Cloudflare Google Fonts Screenshot of ClipBook 2, a launch using Hugo ClipBook 2 Oct 15, 2026 · score 7.1 · Ukraine Productivity Also detected GitHub Pages Fastly GoDaddy DNS GoDaddy Email Screenshot of Fuzio, a launch using Hugo Fuzio Oct 15, 2026 · score 6.7 · China Developer Tools Also detected jQuery Baidu Tongji DNSPod Gradle Plugin Portal Chonk — the CRM that ate everything Oct 15, 2026 · Marketing Also detected Cloudflare Google Fonts Bitter and Bright · Classic cocktails and party batches, measured properly and explained plainly. Oct 14, 2026 Also detected Cloudflare Google Fonts CheatPress Oct 14, 2026 Also detected Bunny CDN Google Search Console

Showing the most recent 12 of 465.

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