Static Website Services

A curated list of services for static websites.

Table of Contents

Analytics

• Google Analytics - Free website analytics.
• Heap - "Capture Everything" analytics.
• MixPanel - Mobile analytics.
• Segment - Collect all your customer data in one place.

Forms/Surveys

• FormSpree - HTML only to receive emails.
• Google Forms - Free Google-powered forms and surveys.
• SurveyMonkey - Easy-to-use and free surveys.
• TypeForm - Beautiful embeddable forms.

Emails

• MailChimp - Email marketing.
• MailGun - Transactional email API.
• SendGrid - Marketing and transactional email.

Hosting

• Aerobatic - Static hosting for Bitbucket.
• Amazon S3 - Granddaddy of static hosting.
• Github Pages - Free Github hosting.
• surge - Single-command publishing.
• GitLab Pages - Free GitLab hosting.

Hosting + CMS for non-developers

• Contentful - API-first CMS.
• Cloud Cannon - Cloud CMS for Jekyll.
• Forestry - CMS for Jekyll/Hugo sites.
• Netlify - Continuous deployment, CDN, and CMS.
• Pulse - Flat-file CMS.

Maps

• Google Maps - Ubiquitous, easy to embed.
• Mapbox - Beautiful and customizable maps.

Messaging

• Drift - An AI-powered messaging app.
• Intercom - Customer messaging app.
• Olark - Live messaging app.

Search

• Algolia - Fast, powerful search-as-a-service.
• Google Custom Search Engine - Custom Google Search for your site.

Static Site Generators

• Jekyll - Ruby-powered, popular, many plug-ins.
• Hugo - Go-powered, fast.
• Pelican - Python-powered.
• Gatsby - ReactJS-powered.
• Cactus - Python and Django-powered.
• Lektor - Python, file-based, CMS.

License

To the extent possible under law, William Vincent has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.