How to know a website is static or dynamic

[kunalkumar]

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.

 

[GuiseNoise]

The complexity of dynamic websites abruptly catches the eye. It might be login form, articles, blogs posted through some CMS, others interactive elements.

 

[aegisinfoways]

A functionality based web site is always regarded as dynamic website. Where as a web page that is not presented with any sort of functionality is regarded as static website.

 

[dombowkett]

Static website have .HTML extension while dynamic having .php or nothing.

 

[Martin smith]

If a site URL has .html extension then it is a static website and dynamic websites are developed using server-side scripting languages like PHP, ASP, or JSP.

 

[Elly]

Very easy to tell, just look at the source code. Other than this, you can use the Chrome extension Wappalyzer to find out even quicker.

 

[petershene]

You can easily have a end point url of ..html on your otherwise dynamic website. The best way would be to run a technology checker tool and see if there are any uses of things like php or mysql because html pages and php pages can be intertwined.

 

[Flex-start]

The dynamic sites having a script...