# daattali/beautiful-jekyll

✨ Build a beautiful and simple website in literally minutes. Demo at https://beautifuljekyll.com

Repository: https://github.com/daattali/beautiful-jekyll
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/beautiful-jekyll
Homepage: https://beautifuljekyll.com
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: jekyll, jekyll-theme, github-pages, jekyll-themes, static-site-generator, ruby-gem, responsive, blog
Last push: 2026-05-25T05:22:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 61/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 84, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4202, "days_push": 100, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5822, forks 17306 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:30.075524+00:00)

## What it is
Beautiful Jekyll is a ready-to-use Jekyll theme/template for quickly building beautiful personal sites, blogs, and simple project websites, usable directly on GitHub Pages or as a Ruby gem. It offers mobile-first responsive design, SEO/social media support, comments, tags, search, and analytics integration with minimal configuration.

## Use cases
- create a personal website in minutes
- start a blog on GitHub Pages
- build a simple project website
- set up a static site without web development experience
- customize a Jekyll theme with SEO and social media support
- add comments and analytics to a static blog

## When to choose
- you want a polished personal site or blog hosted free on GitHub Pages with minimal setup
- you prefer configuration over coding and need responsive, SEO-friendly defaults
- you want a battle-tested theme with a large user community

## When to avoid
- you need a highly custom design beyond what YAML configuration allows
- you need dynamic server-side functionality like user accounts or a database
- you use a static site generator other than Jekyll

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: static-site-generator, templating, theme
- domain: web-development, frontend, documentation, cms
- platform: ruby
- tags: jekyll-theme, github-pages, blog, responsive-design, ruby-gem, personal-website, web-server

## Member repositories
- daattali/beautiful-jekyll (main) score 61

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:30.075524+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:52:10.656498+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/daattali/beautiful-jekyll (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:30.075524+00:00, sha 04aadd823b76)
  - homepage: https://beautifuljekyll.com (fetched 2026-08-29T08:47:37.463681+00:00, sha ad61a0f9d64b)
  - site_page: https://beautifuljekyll.com/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T08:47:37.468117+00:00, sha 0b46b6cc4188)
  - site_page: https://beautifuljekyll.com/getstarted (fetched 2026-08-29T08:47:37.466148+00:00, sha 2ce589371a12)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.