Website

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In short: A collection of related web pages (HTML documents) reachable via a domain, typically linked together through shared navigation.

In more detail: A single website can consist of a single page or thousands of subpages. It’s delivered by one or more web servers and addressed via a domain or subdomain.

In Depth

The term is often used synonymously with “web page”, but the technical distinction is clear: a single web page is one HTML document, a website is the entire related collection of such pages under one domain, linked together via navigation and internal links.

Websites can roughly be classified by how they’re generated:

• Static: all pages exist as finished HTML files, delivered unchanged (e.g. this wiki, built with Quartz).
• Server-side rendered (SSR): the server generates the HTML fresh on every request, often with personalised content (e.g. the logged-in area of Emzett).
• Static with rehydration (SSG/ISR): pages are built in advance but regenerated periodically or on demand — a middle ground between speed and freshness, which Next.js supports by default.

A website is delivered via one or more web servers and reachable via a domain or subdomain — the browser requests every individual page (and its assets like images, CSS, JS) via separate HTTP requests.

See also: Domain, Browser