Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, ease of use, and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates, and renders them into a full HTML website.

Hugo relies on Markdown files with front matter for meta data. And you can run Hugo from any directory. This works well for shared hosts and other systems where you don’t have a privileged account.

Hugo renders a typical website of moderate size in a fraction of a second. A good rule of thumb is that each piece of content renders in around 1 millisecond.

Hugo is meant to work well for any kind of website including blogs, tumblelogs and docs.

Complete documentation is available at https://gohugo.io/