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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.
20 of the 60 sites closest to MkDocs match.
- 01
Sphinx — Sphinx documentation
documentation generator which converts reStructuredText files into HTML
Very close - 02
Use JSDoc: Index
Official documentation for JSDoc.
Very close - 03
TypeDoc
Documentation for TypeDoc
Very close - 04
Eleventy is a simpler static site generator
Eleventy is a simpler static site generator
Very close - 05
Home • Angular
The web development framework for building modern apps.
Very close - 06
Welcome to CodeIgniter
The small framework with powerful features
Very close - 07
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 - 08
Svelte • Web development for the rest of us
Web development for the rest of us
Very close - 09
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Very close - 10
Docs.rs
official documentation website for Rust libraries
Close - 11
Home page | Yarn
Yarn, the modern JavaScript package manager
Close - 12
Swift Programming Language
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
Very close - 13
Bulma: Free, open source, and modern CSS framework based on Flexbox
Bulma is a free, open source CSS framework based on Flexbox and built with Sass. It's 100% responsive, fully modular, and available for free.
Close - 14
LZ4 - Extremely fast compression
Compression algorithm
Close - 15
Bundler: The best way to manage a Ruby application's gems
Close - 16
AMP - a web component framework to easily create user-first web experiences - amp.dev
Whether you are a publisher, e-commerce company, storyteller, advertiser or email sender, AMP makes it easy to create great experiences on the web. Use AMP to build websites, stories, ads and emails.
Close - 17
Canva Developers
Build apps and integrations with Canva
Close - 18
UnoCSS: The instant on-demand Atomic CSS engine
The instant on-demand Atomic CSS engine
Close - 19
Mercurial SCM
cross-platform, distributed revision-control tool for software developers
Close - 20
Raku®
The Raku® programming language.
Close
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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,212
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 39 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