Science Fair Project Encyclopedia A website, Web site or WWW
site (often shortened to just site) is a collection of webpages,
that is, HTML/XHTML documents accessible via HTTP on the
Internet; all publicly accessible websites in existence comprise
the World Wide Web. The pages of a website will be accessed from
a common root URL, the homepage, and usually reside on the same
physical server. The URLs of the pages organize them into a
hierarchy, although the hyperlinks between them control how the
reader perceives the overall structure and how the traffic flows
between the different parts of the site. Some (parts of)
websites require a subscription, with a fee to be paid e.g.
every month, or just a free registration. Examples include many
Internet pornography sites, parts of many news sites, gaming
sites, and sites providing real-time stock market data. A
website will often be the work of a single individual, a
business or organization, or dedicated to a particular topic or
purpose. This is quite a blurry defin