Hugo is one of the world’s fastest static site generators (SSG), written in Go. It generates complete HTML websites from Markdown files and templates in seconds, making it ideal for blogs, documentation, portfolios, and content-focused sites. Hugo produces static files that can be deployed to any web server or CDN without requiring a database or server-side processing.
Hugo was created by Steve Francia in 2013 and is now maintained by Bjørn Erik Pedersen (bep) and the community.
- Blazing fast: Builds sites in milliseconds, even with thousands of pages
- Go-based: Single binary, no runtime dependencies
- Markdown content: Write content in Markdown with front matter metadata
- Advanced templating: Powerful Go template engine
- Multilingual: Built-in support for multiple languages
- Image processing: Built-in image resizing, cropping, and optimization
- Asset pipelines: Sass, JavaScript bundling, TailwindCSS support
- Taxonomies: Categories, tags, and custom taxonomies
- Themes: Hundreds of community themes available
- Embedded server: Live reload during development
- Write content in Markdown files with front matter metadata
- Hugo processes content through templates
- Generates static HTML files in
public/ directory
- Deploy static files to any web server or CDN
- Static file hosting (Netlify, Vercel, GitHub Pages)
- Traditional web server (Apache, Nginx)
- CDN deployment (Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront)
- Containerized deployment with Docker
| Component |
Requirement |
| OS |
Linux, macOS, Windows, BSD |
| Go |
Not required (pre-built binary) |
| RAM |
Minimal (Hugo binary is ~20MB) |
| Disk |
Depends on site size |
- License: Apache 2.0 (open-source)
- Cost: Free
- Current: v0.158.0 (March 16, 2026)
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