Types of Websites
Affiliate
The purpose of this site is to sell a third party's product. The seller receives a commission for facilitating the sale.
Affiliate Agency
Enabled portal that renders not only its custom CMS but also syndicated content from other content providers for an agreed fee.
Archive site
Used to preserve valuable electronic content threatened with extinction.
Blog (web log)
Sites generally used to post online diaries which usually include discussion forums.
Brand building site
A site with the purpose of creating an experience of a brand online.
Celebrity website
A website whose information revolves around a celebrity. This sites can be official (endorsed by the celebrity) or fan made (run by his/her fan, fans, without implicit endorsement).
Click-to-donate site
A website that allows the visitor to donate to charity simply by clicking on a button or answering a question correctly.
Community site
A site where persons with similar interests communicate with each other, usually by chat or message boards.
Content site
Sites whose business is the creation and distribution of original content
Corporate website
Used to provide background information about a business, organization, or service.
Dating website
A site where users can find other single people looking for long range relationships, dating, or just friends.
E-Commerce
A site offering goods and services for online sale and enabling online transactions for such sales.
Forum website
A site where people discuss various topics.
Government Site
A website made by the local, state, department or national government of a country.
Gripe site
A site devoted to the criticism of a person, place, corporation, government, or institution.
Gaming website
A site that lets users play online games. Some enable people to gamble online.
Humor site
Satirizes, parodies or otherwise exists solely to amuse.
Information site
Most websites could fit in this type of website to some extent many of them are not necessarily for commercial purposes
Media sharing site
A site that enables users to upload and view media such as pictures, music, and videos
Microblog site
A short and simple form of blogging. Microblogs are limited to certain amounts of characters and works similar to a status update on Facebook
News site
Similar to an information site, but dedicated to dispensing news, politics, and commentary.
Personal website
Websites about an individual or a small group (such as a family) that contains information or any content that the individual wishes to include. Many personal homepages are rare, thanks to the modern era of social networking sites such as Myspace, but some are still used for at home businesses. This website is different from a Celebrity website, which can be very expensive and run by a publicist or agency.
Phishing site
a website created to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business (such as Social Security Administration, PayPal) in an electronic communication (see Phishing).
p2p/Torrents website
Websites that index torrent files. This type of website is different from a Bit torrent client which is usually a stand alone software.
Political site
A site on which people may voice political views, show political humor, campaigning for elections, or show information about a certain political party or ideology.
Question and Answer (Q&A) Site
A site where users can ask questions and get answers.
Rating site
A site on which people can rate what is featured.
Religious site
A site in which people may advertise a place of worship, or provide inspiration or seek to encourage the faith of a follower of that religion.
Review site
A site on which people can post reviews for products or services.
School site
a site on which teachers, students, or administrators can post information about current events at or involving their school. U.S. elementary-high school websites generally use k12 in the URL
Search engine site
A website that indexes material on the internet or an intranet (and lately on traditional media such as books and newspapers)and provides links to information as a response to a query.
Social bookmarking site
A site where users share other content from the Internet and rate and comment on the content.
Social networking site
A site where users could communicate with one another and share media, such as pictures, videos, music, blogs, etc. with other users.
Warez
A site designed to host or link to materials such as music, movies and software for the user to download.
Webmail
A site that provides a webmail service.
Web portal
A site that provides a starting point or a gateway to other resources on the Internet or an intranet.
Wiki site
A site which users collaboratively edit its content.
