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Top Difference between websites & web Apps

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Top Difference between websites & web Apps

Overview: A website is defined by its content, while a web application is defined by its interaction with the user.

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Top Difference between websites & web Apps

A website can plausibly consist of a static content repository that's dealt out to all visitors, while a web application depends on interaction and requires programmatic user input and data processing.

Top Difference between websites & web AppsFor example, a news site would be a "website", but a spreadsheet or a collaborative calendar would be web "applications". The news site shows essentially the same information to all visitors, while the calendar processes individual data.

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Top Difference between websites & web AppsPractically, most websites with quickly changing content will also rely on a sophisticated programmatic (and/or database) backend, but at least in principle they're only defined by their output. The web application on the other hand is essentially a program that runs remotely, and it depends fundamentally on a processing and a data storage backend.

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A Reason to Initiate CommunicationWebsites are primarily informational. In this sense, http://cnn.com and http://php.net are websites, not web applications.

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Web applications primarily allow the user to perform actions. Google Analytics, gmail, and jslintare web applications.

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There is no real "difference". Web site is a more anachronistic term that exists from the early days of the internet where the notion of a dynamic application that can respond to user input was much more limited and much less common. Commercial websites started out largely as interactive brochures (with the notable exception of hotel/airline reservation sites). Over time their functionality (and the supporting technologies) became more and more responsive and the line between an application that you install on your computer and one that exists in the cloud became more and more blurred.

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Top DifferenceIf you're just looking to express yourself clearly when speaking about what you're building, I would continue to describe something that is an interactive brochure or business card as a "web site" and something that actually *does something that feels more like an application as a web app. Web Development Company India

Difference Between web & web appThe most basic distinction would be if a website has a supporting database that stores user data and modifies what the user sees based on some user specified criteria, then it's probably an app of some sort (although I would be reluctant to describe Amazon.com as a web app, even though it has a lot of very user-specific functionality). If, on the other hand, it is mostly static .html files that link to one another, I would call that a web site.

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