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Summary Information

Updated 12 minutes ago
Type:CLI ToolCategory(s):CMS, Static Sites & ForumsWeb Development
Added to GitGenius on March 14th, 2022
Created on July 4th, 2013
Open Issues & Pull Requests: 207 (+0)
GitHub issues: Enabled
Number of forks: 8,385
Total Stargazers: 90,070 (+1)
Total Subscribers: 1,086 (+0)

Repository Insights (GitGenius)

Median issue/PR response: 1.4 hours
Mean response time: 132.7 days
90th percentile: 402.5 days
Tracked items: 1,410

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Maintainer activity

3 people did triage or write work on this repository in the last 12 months.

Counts unlabeled, assigned, unassigned, milestoned, demilestoned, locked, unlocked over the last 12 months. These are issue and pull request events that require triage or write permission. Commits and code review are not counted. labeled and renamed are excluded because GitHub issue forms record the issue author as the actor. Figures from October 7, 2026. This count is not comparable across projects: each project's automation decides which of these events a person emits.

How this project is maintained

Practically every issue opened in the past year has drawn a reply. 66% of open issues come from outside the core team, a mix of external reports and the maintainers' own roadmap. Work labelled "NeedsTriage" is answered fastest, typically in under an hour, while "Keep" waits about 8 months. 18% of tracked open issues have had no activity in three months. 87% of issues opened in the past year have been closed, leaving a working backlog.

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Issue Activity (beta)

Open issues: 187
New in 7 days: 3
Closed in 7 days: 3
Avg open age: 1,105 days
Stale 30+ days: 67
Stale 90+ days: 32

Recent activity

Opened in 7 days: 3
Closed in 7 days: 3
Comments in 7 days: 13
Events in 7 days: 72

Top labels

  • Outdated (5,758)
  • Bug (1,930)
  • Enhancement (1,222)
  • Stale (894)
  • Proposal (719)
  • NeedsTriage (537)
  • Keep (162)
  • Upstream (156)

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Detailed Description

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go that emphasizes speed and flexibility for building websites.

Hugo solves the problem of slow site generation by rendering complete websites in seconds through its Go implementation and optimized architecture. It combines an advanced templating system with fast asset pipelines that handle CSS processing, image manipulation, JavaScript bundling, Sass transpilation, and Tailwind CSS compilation. The tool includes an embedded development server for instant preview of changes and supports deployment through direct pushes to Git providers or to cloud storage services.

Hugo suits developers building corporate sites, documentation, portfolios, landing pages, blogs, and resumes who need multilingual support and powerful taxonomy systems. The tool's flexible framework makes it appropriate for projects ranging from simple blogs to complex documentation sites with image processing requirements. The extended edition adds LibSass support for developers who need it, while the deploy edition enables direct cloud deployment to Google Cloud Storage, AWS S3, or Azure Storage containers.

The project receives issues from both core maintainers and outside users, indicating adoption beyond the core team without overwhelming external support demands. Maintainers typically respond to new issues and pull requests within hours. Work in the issue tracker centers on addressing outdated items, bugs, and enhancements.