How to know a website is static or dynamic

[lkovnih226]

Hi everyone,
Is there any ways that we can check a website is either dynamic or static or when visiting a few pages in a website you can know whether it is a static or dynamic website.
Please share your experience.

 

[EpicGlobalWeb]

You need to clarify what you mean by "static" or "dynamic." However, I'll take a guess at what you mean and try to answer you.

1. A static website could be a website that does not change its text or navigation content. One way to tell if this is the case is to look at the URL extension on your browser. If the site says "something.com/this-is-a-file/this-is-a-page.html" then it is likely static, because html doesn't change its content except through JavaScript when you interact with it, if there is any script in it.

That is not 100% way to tell however, because php (with the help of the fwrite function) can generate html pages if it was programmed to. Also, a common practice for SEO or vanity reasons is URL re-writing, which usually rewrites the URL in the code to cut off the page file extension, like this: "something.com/this-is-a-file/this-is-a-page" instead of "something.com/this-is-a-file/this-is-a-page.html"

More websites today are dynamic or becoming dynamic. Dynamic websites might have a URL extension ending in ".php" or ".asp" which means that the page you're viewing was generated by the server through server-side code instead of client side code.

2. The comments. If you right click any website, you'll see a button that says "view source" and you should click it. If there is anything dynamic, good programmers will comment where their php code is during development and sometimes they leave it there when the site goes live too.

3. In the same "view source" you might find tags that say "<script>var x = "a_variable";</script>" which is JavaScript code. JavaScript code will tell you that there are dynamic elements going on in between those tags. Sometimes they call other parts of the website to change when an event happens such as a mouse-click or even a hand gesture infront of your webcam.

You probably wanted to know about websites that can change dynamically, so that's my answer.

4. Sometimes dynamic can mean rotating IP addresses. Your website likely doesn't do that, however, and is usually static on hostgator, for instance, and your IP doesn't normally change there I don't think.

 

[RebeccaDooley]

I have cleared out your confusion about the website which is static or dynamic. There are basically two main types of website - static and dynamic.

A static site is one that is usually written in plain HTML and what is in the code of the page is what is displayed to the user.

A dynamic site is one that is written using a server-side scripting language such as PHP, ASP, JSP, or Coldfusion. In such a site the content is called in by the scripting language from other files or from a database depending on actions taken by the user.

 

[grimgrinn]

Hey there. Try to use chrome extension (aavilable for firefox and opera also) called Wappalyzer. It determines technology that web site is built on. For example this is how its look for webmastersun.com

So this way when you come to certain site you just look to wappalyzer icon in yuors browser address string and is it show you for example wp or dle or joomla or somth like this you can already say the site is dynamic/ If it shows just apache logo or jquery or somth else js framework most likely its static )

 

[OSSMediaLtd]

Hi

Static websites: Websites contains fixed pages and formats. It display the exact same information whenever anyone visits it.

Dynamic websites: Website can change the web page contents dynamically based on client's browser.

You can also use browser extension or addon to check the site is static or dyanamic:

Wappalyzer:

I am using wappalyzer in my browser to know sites information. Wappalyzer is a browser extension that uncovers the technologies used on websites. It detects content management systems, eCommerce platforms.

 

[RenderedElite]

Very easy to tell, just look at the source code. As grimgrinn said, you can use the Chrome extension Wappalyzer to find out even quicker.

 

[Aby]

There is one app that I know of that detects whether a web page is static or not.
It is called as Wappalyser. It is the best one out there.
I hope you find it easy to use and even more so while recommending it.

 

[Azmeri]

All websites are dynamic, it’s just a question of when. Some change several times a day. Others change less often, once or twice a year maybe… sooner or later they'll most likely all change to ‘just a memory’.

They are also static. Even the most dynamic doesn't change at every request. Else reverse proxies and caches wouldn't make a lot of sense.

So look for the marks of a CMS or some kind of rendered page.

 

[anghelvalentin95]

You can use the website builtwith. This give you information about the server side. If that section is not available, there is a possibility that website is static.

 

[John-S]

A static site is all written in plain HTML code and that code output will be displayed to the user. A dynamic website is written using a server-side scripting language such as PHP, asp, jsp or ColdFusion.

 

[Traffic]

Control refresh between visits. Delete cache. I don't really have the issue as browsers suck delete cache. View source see what is used to create the code. eg wysiwyg, note pad wordpress or any db.

 

[markuspalmer]

I think you should know code this website. There are two forms of coding languages, one is "C" coding language and the other is "PHP" coding language.

 

[poco]

Very Useful tricks for find out any website is static or dynamic
Or which platform used like PHP, asp.net, or hosting server


Follow the steps
1> Install Wappalyzer Chrome extension
2> Open the website which is you want to check. Then Above the Bookmark bar, there is wappalyzer blue icon.
3> as per the below screenshot all details you can see.

 

[Koonus]

It' easy. A static site is all written in plain HTML code .r. A dynamic website is written using a server-side scripting language such as PHP

 

[jackdaniel]

Hi everyone,
Is there any ways that we can check a website is either dynamic or static or when visiting a few pages in a website you can know whether it is a static or dynamic website.
Please share your experience.

According to me 2 things you have to check it whether the website is static or not
First, one is to check its source code .. source code can be written only in HTML it should be a static site
Then source code written in php, javascript and many other scripting languages is should be a dynamic page


Also static site has only one page and dynamic sites have more than one page

 

[hipcat]

hipcat

I have lots of static sites with more than 1 page

 

[stanleylawson]

simply right click on website's page and view source, if you dont see code other than html, then it means that site is static

 

[Amie]

The language of the static page is HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) or XML (Extensible Character Language). Dynamic page language: HTML + ASP or HTML + ASP.NET or HTML + PHP or HTML + JSP etc. In website design, pure HTML pages are commonly referred to as "static pages". If the page is static: Each page of a static page has a fixed URL, and the page URL has a common suffix such as .htm, .html, .shtml, and does not contain "?"; After the page content is published to the website server, regardless of whether the user has access, the content of each static page is stored on the website server, that is, a static page is a file that is actually saved on the server. Each page is an independent file; (3) the content of static pages is relatively stable so that search engines can easily get it; Static pages do not have database support, and the workload of creating and maintaining websites is relatively high. Therefore, it is difficult to rely solely on methods for creating static pages when the amount of information about the website is large; The interactivity of static pages is interspersed and there are relatively large limitations in terms of functionality. This seems to be understandable. First, look at the name of the suffix, and second, if it can communicate with the server. Static pages refer to dynamic pages. Refers to pages that do not have a back-end database, programs, and interactions. You come up with something that appears unchanged.

 

[Traffic]

For the record anyone can make a static version of any dynamic site in any format by simply right clicking and saving site which will give html file. eg php can be saved as html even save a wordpress site as static. Not every php page is going to be dynamic got plenty of files never changed.

 

[Traffic]

Extension will also give it away at times .htm .hrml will be static .php is likely dynamic but can be static depending on function. Wordpress is dynamic. Wayback machine will show what previous versions look like. Which if static and not updated will be same.