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MkDocs
Who runs MkDocs, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest documentation generator alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Docusaurus
Measured from MkDocs’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit MkDocs01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs MkDocs
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What MkDocs tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
10 of the 20 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to MkDocs
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to MkDocs, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Build optimized websites quickly, focus on your content | Docusaurus
An optimized site generator in React. Docusaurus helps you to move fast and write content. Build documentation websites, blogs, marketing pages, and more.
Very close - 02
Sphinx — Sphinx documentation
documentation generator which converts reStructuredText files into HTML
Very close - 03
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.
Very close - 04
Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites | Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs
Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs
Very close - 05
Use JSDoc: Index
Official documentation for JSDoc.
Very close - 06
TypeDoc
Documentation for TypeDoc
Very close - 07
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Very close - 08
Eleventy is a simpler static site generator
Eleventy is a simpler static site generator
Very close - 09
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close - 10
Home • Angular
The web development framework for building modern apps.
Very close - 11
Welcome to CodeIgniter
The small framework with powerful features
Very close - 12
Lit
Simple. Fast. Web Components.
Very close - 13
Symfony, High Performance PHP Framework for Web Development
Symfony is a web framework and a set of reusable PHP packages to build web applications, APIs, microservices and CLI apps.
Very close - 14
React
React is the library for web and native user interfaces. Build user interfaces out of individual pieces called components written in JavaScript. React is designed to let you seamlessly combine components written by independent people, teams, and organizations.
Very close - 15
Svelte • Web development for the rest of us
Web development for the rest of us
Very close - 16
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Very close - 17
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Very close - 18
CakePHP - Build fast, grow solid | PHP Framework | Home
CakePHP is an open-source web, rapid development framework that makes building web applications simpler, faster and require less code. It follows the model–view–controller (MVC) . Manual for beginners now available and links towards the last version.
Very close - 19
Docs.rs
official documentation website for Rust libraries
Close - 20
Home page | Yarn
Yarn, the modern JavaScript package manager
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles MkDocs’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones MkDocs uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what MkDocs adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 25 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to MkDocs’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.mkdocs.org/js/jquery-3.6.0.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://www.mkdocs.org/js/bootstrap.min.js
- Font Awesome asset https://www.mkdocs.org/css/font-awesome.min.css
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- CDN
- Hosting
- GitHub Pages header server: GitHub.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-176.awsdns-22.com
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on mkdocs.org 14/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on mkdocs.org 12/20
- Cloudflare · not on mkdocs.org 8/20
- Google Analytics 7/20
- Fastly 5/20
- Algolia · not on mkdocs.org 4/20
- Google Workspace · not on mkdocs.org 4/20
- Mailgun · not on mkdocs.org 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on mkdocs.org 3/20
- Vercel · not on mkdocs.org 3/20
- Font Awesome 3/20
- Netlify · not on mkdocs.org 2/20
- Google AdSense · not on mkdocs.org 2/20
- Fastmail · not on mkdocs.org 2/20
- Google Cloud DNS · not on mkdocs.org 2/20
- Google Fonts · not on mkdocs.org 2/20