There and back again, again

Around twelve months ago I posted about how I was migrating this blog back to Hugo. That migration lasted around 6 months at which time I switched to Grav. I had fiddled around with Grav in the very early says of this blog but had commenced with Hugo.

Just before Christmas 2019 there were some changes made to Hugo which meant the theme I was using¹ broke and my site wouldn’t render properly. I tried to fix it - unsuccessfully. As a result I switched to Grav. It worked well for a time but there were occasional issues with the site - namely that the bigfoot footnotes would only render correctly around half the time, and sometimes the archives and tag/category clouds didn’t seem to be complete.

As a result, that foray into Grav lasted around 7 months until I wondered whether the issues with my chosen Hugo theme, Blackburn, had been fixed. Earlier this week I recreated the site with a new Hugo installation and fresh download of Blackburn and, lo and behold, everything worked.

In light of that I flipped my site from Grav back to Hugo.

Here’s that history in tabular form:

I was wondering how popular Hugo and Grav are relative to each other. I came across these content management system statistics. I don’t know how reliable or accurate the information is, but it indicates Grav is in use in 0.013% of sites compared to Hugo’s 0.08% of sites. This suggests Hugo is around 6 times more prevalent or popular than Grav - but both are pretty low down on the CMS totem pole.