How does a website differ from a web application?

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  • This is how IBM sees it - read - insun
  • If the main business logic on the client is a web application, and if on the server it is a website. - kosost
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A website is a platform for posting anything published on the web. Including web applications, by the way.
A web application is a program that uses the web to interact with the user and other programs.

From the point of view of a simple user are not distinguishable at all. Everything that opens in a browser is a website. The same https://ru.stackoverflow.com/ is it perceived as some kind of application? So, saytik, on which students perform homework on computer science :). Classmates, VKontakte and other facebooks, too, no one calls applications. So that IBM does not think about amazon and audi ( link ), any normal person will say: this is a site.

But in order to pass the test, you will have to agree with IBM in everything :)