A website (also spelled Web site or else web site) is a set of allied web pages, pictures, videos or else additional digital resources that are addressed with a general domain name or else IP addressing an Internet Protocol-based network. A web site is being hosted on at least one web server, available using a network for example the Internet or else a private local area network. A web page is a an HTML file, normally written in plain text scattered with formatting directions of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML, XHTML). A web page might include elements from further websites with appropriate markup anchors.

Web pages are being administered as well as distributed with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which can optionally utilize encryption (HTTP Secure, HTTPS) to offer security along with privacy for the customer of the web page content. The user's application, normally with a web browser, renders the page content according to its HTML markup directions onto a display terminal.

All openly available websites jointly make up the World Wide Web.

The pages of a website can generally be accessed from a simple Uniform Resource Locator (URL) called the homepage. The URLs of the pages arrange them into a chain of command; even though hyperlinking among them conveys the reader's apparent site structure as well as guides the reader's navigation of the site.

A few websites need a subscription to access several or else all of their content. Examples of subscription sites contain various business sites, parts of numerous news sites, academic journalists, gaming sites, message boards, web-based e-mail, services, social networking websites, with sites offering real-time stock market data.