Static Content

By Joe Gardiner Monday, 12th April 2010

Static content is the type of content sent to a user making a request to the web server where the web site is stored, through their web browser.

Specifically, static content is any content that is not generated depending on the request the user has made. For example, loading an image file, or a block of text like a dictionary term, will be the same for every user accessing the site, and cannot change, unless the person who owns the site makes changes to the files that are stored on the web server.

The static content will be hard coded into the .html pages of the web site, and will never be loaded from a database or dynamically created depending no the request the user has made.

static content is useful for search engine indexing, as it stays in the same location, is rarely changed, and is always present.

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