How to check if a website is static or dynamic ?

In a basic sense, dynamic sites work by users requesting options in their web browser, sending that to the server, the server builds a page with the info the user asked for, then sending back a "flat" HTML page (that you can see by pressing CTRL-U).
For all you know, there could be a team of coders making a customer page just for you, really fast (but it's cheaper to have a computer do it). In a more complex sense, these days, many web site will also have client-side scripting, meaning the server is not involved (you'll notice these changes happen instantly when you do stuff on the site, without a delay to contact the server and ask for more info. Tom Gordon has some interesting ideas on detecting that.
 
In a basic sense, dynamic sites work by users requesting options in their web browser, sending that to the server, the server builds a page with the info the user asked for, then sending back a "flat" HTML page (that you can see by pressing CTRL-U).
For all you know, there could be a team of coders making a customer page just for you, really fast (but it's cheaper to have a computer do it). In a more complex sense, these days, many web site will also have client-side scripting, meaning the server is not involved (you'll notice these changes happen instantly when you do stuff on the site, without a delay to contact the server and ask for more info. Tom Gordon has some interesting ideas on detecting that.
 
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