GAX vs Hugo - Which Go SSG is Faster?
Hugo is king, but GAX is a crow. Benchmarking 1000 markdown files.
14 Aug 2026
Hugo: 89ms for 1000 posts. GAX: 67ms.
Why? Hugo does everything - i18n, image processing, taxonomy. GAX does only one thing: markdown + frontmatter -> HTML.
If you need a blog, portfolio, docs site - you don't need Hugo's 200 features.
GAX:
- No theme marketplace
- No shortcodes hell
- Just
{{variable}},{% for %},{% if %}
Less is more. Like Itachi's fight - 3 moves, fight over.