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title: Hugo Features
description: Hugo boasts blistering speed, robust content management, and a powerful templating language making it a great fit for all kinds of static websites.
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## General

* [Extremely fast] build times (&lt; 1 ms per page)
* Completely cross platform, with [easy installation][install] on macOS, Linux, Windows, and more
* Renders changes on the fly with [LiveReload] as you develop
* [Powerful theming]
* [Host your site anywhere][hostanywhere]

## Organization

* Straightforward [organization for your projects], including website sections
* Customizable [URLs]
* Support for configurable [taxonomies], including categories and tags
* [Sort content] as you desire through powerful template [functions]
* Automatic [table of contents] generation
* [Dynamic menu] creation
* [Pretty URLs] support
* [Permalink] pattern support
* Redirects via [aliases]

## Content

* Native Markdown and Emacs Org-Mode support, as well as other languages via *external helpers* (see [supported formats])
* TOML, YAML, and JSON metadata support in [front matter]
* Customizable [homepage]
* Multiple [content types]
* Automatic and user defined [content summaries]
* [Shortcodes] to enable rich content inside of Markdown
* ["Minutes to Read"][pagevars] functionality
* ["WordCount"][pagevars] functionality

## Additional Features

* Integrated [Disqus] comment support
* Integrated [Google Analytics] support
* Automatic [RSS] creation
* Support for [Go] HTML templates
* [Syntax highlighting] powered by [Chroma]

[aliases]: /content-management/urls/#aliases
[Chroma]: https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma
[content summaries]: /content-management/summaries/
[content types]: /content-management/types/
[Disqus]: https://disqus.com/
[Dynamic menu]: /templates/menu-templates/
[Extremely fast]: https://github.com/bep/hugo-benchmark
[front matter]: /content-management/front-matter/
[functions]: /functions/
[Go]: https://pkg.go.dev/html/template
[Google Analytics]: https://google-analytics.com/
[homepage]: /templates/homepage/
[hostanywhere]: /hosting-and-deployment/
[install]: /installation/
[LiveReload]: /getting-started/usage/
[organization for your projects]: /getting-started/directory-structure/
[pagevars]: /variables/page/
[Permalink]: /content-management/urls/#permalinks
[Powerful theming]: /hugo-modules/theme-components/
[Pretty URLs]: /content-management/urls/
[RSS]: /templates/rss/
[Shortcodes]: /content-management/shortcodes/
[sort content]: /templates/
[supported formats]: /content-management/formats/
[Syntax highlighting]: /content-management/syntax-highlighting/
[table of contents]: /content-management/toc/
[taxonomies]: /content-management/taxonomies/
[URLs]: /content-management/urls/
