Static Website

noun

say it: “STAT-ik WEB-site” /ˈstætɪk ˈwɛbsaɪt/

A website whose pages are ready-made files that are sent to every visitor exactly as stored.

What is Static Website?

Static Website — A site whose pages are ready-made HTML files. The server sends every visitor the same file exactly as it's stored, so changing a page means editing the file.

In a sentence

  • “Our first site was a static website: three HTML files that never changed on their own.”

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