Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators, written in Go. With its incredible build speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again. It is maintained by Bjørn Erik Pedersen and a vibrant community of contributors.
Hugo provides a robust theming system, taxonomies, multilingual support, image processing, Hugo Pipes for assets, shortcodes, and a flexible content model with Markdown plus TOML/YAML/JSON frontmatter.
World's fastest static site framework. Sub-second builds, deploy anywhere static files can live.
✨ Features
Renders thousands of pages per second. Iteration via hugo server is near-instant.
Per-language content directories, translated taxonomies, hreflang in core. Single workflow.
Hundreds of themes. Hugo Modules use Go modules to compose themes, components, content.
Built-in resize, crop, WebP/AVIF conversion. Responsive images without external pipelines.
One static binary, zero runtime deps. Same install command on every OS.
