A static web page is a web page A web page or webpage is a document or resource of information that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a web browser and displayed on a computer screen that always comprises the same information in response to all download requests from all users. Contrast with Dynamic web page Classical hypertext navigation, with HTML or XHTML alone, provides "static" content, meaning that the user requests a web page and simply views the page and the information on that page.
It displays the same information for all users, from all contexts, providing the classical hypertext Hypertext is text, displayed on a computer, with references to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images and other presentational devices. Other means of interaction may also be present, such as a bubble with text appearing when, where navigation is performed through "static" documents.
Advantages
- Quick and easy to put together, even by someone who doesn't have much experience.
- Ideal for demonstrating how a site will look.
- Cache friendly, one copy can be shown to many people.
Disadvantages
- Difficult to maintain when a site gets large.
- Difficult to keep consistent and up to date.
- Offers little visitor personalization (all would have to be client side).
Technical view
The HTML HTML, which stands for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists etc as well as for links, quotes, and other items. It allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create or TXT page is stored at the web server A web server has defined load limits, because it can handle only a limited number of concurrent client connections (usually between 2 and 60,000, by default between 500 and 1,000) per IP address (and TCP port) and it can serve only a certain maximum number of requests per second depending on: file system In computing, a file system is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them. File systems may use a data storage device such as a hard disk or CD-ROM and involve maintaining the physical location of the files, they might provide access to data on a file server by acting as and is distributed (in a HTTP protocol Hypertext Transfer Protocol is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. Its use for retrieving inter-linked resources led to the establishment of the World Wide Web for example) directly, as a file transfer.
Comparison details
(see Dynamic web page Classical hypertext navigation, with HTML or XHTML alone, provides "static" content, meaning that the user requests a web page and simply views the page and the information on that page for more information)
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In a dynamic site, pages are assembled "on the fly" as and when they are requested. Most server side languages as PHP, JSP and ASP powered sites do this technology by actively encourages dynamic content creation. Generating pages dynamically allows for all sorts of clever applications, from e-commerce, random quote generators to full on web applications such as Hotmail.
In a static publishing system, HTML pages are pre-generated by the publishing software and stored as flat files on the web server, ready to be served. This approach is less flexible than dynamic generation in many ways and is often ignored as an option as a result, but in fact the vast majority of content sites consist of primarily static pages and could be powered by static content generation without any loss of functionality to the end user.
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Benefits of dynamic publishing
At first glance, the benefits of dynamic publishing are obvious. What is frequently ignored are the benefits of static publishing, at least for content-driven sites which don't have any heavy need for dynamic features. The most obvious benefit is performance; serving static files is what web servers such as Apache are optimised to do, and they can do it fast.
The reliability advantage
A big part is that it takes the pressure off of going live. You can be sure before going live that the published website is correct. The actual CMS may explode in flames, but the site will be fine. Going live with a web application is always a stressful process, and anything that reduces the stress of that is a great benefit. As time goes on, static publishing is also a big stress reduction for the system administrator, since a simple Apache configuration is a lot more reliable under different loads and configurations than any dynamic site will be.
Performance issues
Static site will increase the performance of any website or online application. Static pages will have a ‘circular’ effect on speed: static pages will take up less load time; less load time will allow for better performance under stress, and better performance will reduce the server stress and give the user faster downloads. Note, though, that accessibility should always have a higher priority than performance.
Static over dynamic - Conclusion
Not everything needs to be dynamically created. If there are pieces of information that have quite a long dynamic cycle, embed them statically, but perhaps allow for new items to be re-embedded easily, through a pseudo-dynamic process.
See also
- Dynamic web page Classical hypertext navigation, with HTML or XHTML alone, provides "static" content, meaning that the user requests a web page and simply views the page and the information on that page
- Web page A web page or webpage is a document or resource of information that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a web browser and displayed on a computer screen
- Web document A PDF document requested from SFTP or SMTP protocols, for example, is a web document, but not a web page
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James
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:29:51 GM
Just under a year ago I wrote about three websites that allowed users to generate RSS feeds from . static web. pages. The most promising provider looked like Feed43, however I never really gave it a thorough test. ...
