What is Static site?
Also called: Static website
The short answer
A static site is made of pre-built HTML files served the same way to every visitor, which makes it fast, cheap to host and hard to break.
Static site, explained
Pages are built once, ahead of time, and copied to a global network. There is no database to query on each visit, so there is little to slow down or attack.
Static does not mean plain: static pages can still run rich JavaScript, forms and 3D, and can be rebuilt automatically whenever content changes.
Questions people ask about Static site
What is Static site?
A static site is made of pre-built HTML files served the same way to every visitor, which makes it fast, cheap to host and hard to break.
Related terms
A dynamic site builds each page on the server when it is requested, so it can show personalised or constantly changing content.
Static site generationStatic site generation builds every page's HTML ahead of time, at deploy, so pages are served instantly from a CDN without any work per request.
JamstackJamstack is an approach to building sites from pre-rendered pages served by a CDN, with dynamic features added through JavaScript and APIs.
Hardcoded websiteA hardcoded website is built directly in code, HTML, CSS and JavaScript or a framework, rather than assembled in a page builder, so it carries no platform or plugin overhead.
CDNA CDN is a network of servers around the world that keeps copies of a site's files and serves each visitor from the location nearest to them.
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