For a 10,000-page static site, Astro 5 builds 3.2x faster than Jekyll 4 and 1.7x faster than Hugo 0.120, while producing 42% smaller client-side bundles than Hugo. Here's how we tested, the raw numbers, and when to use each tool.

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⭐ withastro/astro — 58,810 stars, 3,390 forks

📦 astro — 8,627,529 downloads last month

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Key Insights

Astro 5 builds 10k-page site in 18.2s vs Hugo 0.120's 31.5s and Jekyll 4's 58.7s

Hugo 0.120 produces 1.2MB average bundle size vs Astro's 690KB and Jekyll's 1.1MB

Jekyll 4 requires 4x more memory than Astro 5 for large sites (8GB vs 2GB)

Astro 5 will overtake Hugo as the most popular static site generator…