A website ([ˈvɛpsaɪ̯t], [1] also [ˈwɛpsaɪ̯t] or English [ˈwɛbˌsaɪt]), also a web presence, website or website, is the presence of a telemedia provider in the worldwide network (World Wide Web), which can be reached at an individual web address. . It is created with web technologies, for example HTML, and can be displayed with a user agent, for example a browser. The web presence includes web pages and optionally available downloadable documents. In other words: A web presence is a virtual place in the World Wide Web, where there are usually several websites, files and other resources that are usually linked to one another by a uniform navigation (using hypertext processes).

The English name website or web site is derived from site (German ‘Ort’, ‘Platz’, ‘Stelle’), this in turn from Latin situs (German ‘Lage’, ‘position’). The other German terms Internet presence, Internet presence and Internet offer are less precise, since the focus on the World Wide Web (as part of the entire Internet) is not expressed in these terms. The term homepage, which is also frequently used, equates the entry page of the website, which is actually referred to as the homepage, with the entire website.