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# The world’s fastest framework for building websites

Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again.

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Open source

Hugo is open source and free to use. It is distributed under the Apache 2.0 License.

Popular.

Hugo has 84,730 stars on GitHub as of November 14, 2025. Join the crowd and hit the Star button.

Active.

Hugo has a large and active community. If you have questions or need help, you can ask in the Hugo forums.

Frequent releases.

Hugo has a fast release cycle. The project is actively maintained and new features are added regularly.

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Optimized for speed

Written in Go, optimized for speed and designed for flexibility. With its advanced templating system and fast asset pipelines, Hugo renders a large site in seconds, often less.

Flexible framework

With its multilingual support, and powerful taxonomy system, Hugo is widely used to create documentation sites, landing pages, corporate, government, nonprofit, education, news, event, and project sites.

Fast assets pipeline

Image processing (convert, resize, crop, rotate, adjust colors, apply filters, overlay text and images, and extract EXIF data), JavaScript bundling (tree shake, code splitting), Sass processing, great TailwindCSS support.

Embedded web server

Use Hugo's embedded web server during development to instantly see changes to content, structure, behavior, and presentation.



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