Open source
Hugo is open source and free to use. It is distributed under the Apache 2.0 License.
- Popular.
- Hugo has 78,802 stars on GitHub as of March 18, 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.