Glossary

Home page

The first page of a website, the one served at the site address with no particular path.

Menu

The set of links repeated at the top of every page, used to go from one page to another.

Page title

A short text that names the page. It appears in the browser tab and in search results.

Sitemap

A file listing the addresses of the published pages, for crawling tools.

Crawling rules

A file at the root of the website that tells crawling tools what they may visit.

Static website

A website whose pages are files served as they are, with nothing computed at visit time.