What is Website?
The short answer
A website is a collection of linked web pages published under one domain name, stored on a server and viewed in a web browser.
What people say: “a site”, “my page online”, “web presence”.
Website, explained
Every website has three parts: a domain name people type or click (like example.com), files that describe the pages (HTML for structure, CSS for style, JavaScript for behaviour), and a server that sends those files to each visitor's browser.
Websites range from a single page for a local business to stores with thousands of products and apps people log into. What they share is the web itself: open standards any browser can read, on any device, without installing anything.
Questions people ask about Website
What is Website?
A website is a collection of linked web pages published under one domain name, stored on a server and viewed in a web browser.
What do I need to make a website?
A domain name, somewhere to host the files, and the site itself, built by hand, with a builder, or from a one-sentence description.
How much does a website cost?
It ranges from a few dollars a month on a DIY builder to five figures at an agency; the biggest factors are custom design, number of pages and features like checkout.
Is a website the same as a web page?
No. A web page is one document; a website is the whole set of pages under one domain.
Related terms
A web page is a single document on the web, identified by its own URL and written in HTML, that a browser renders for a visitor.
Domain nameA domain name is the human-readable address of a website, such as example.com, that points to the server where the site lives.
Web hostingWeb hosting is the service that stores a website's files on internet-connected servers and delivers them to visitors around the clock.
Web appA web app is software that runs in the browser and lets people do things, such as edit, book, chat or buy, rather than only read.
Part of the Web Encyclopedia by Apex Flow Digital. Definitions are general knowledge, kept current, with no invented statistics.