It’s Web site.
Web site. Not website.
Web: a shortened version of World Wide Web. Can be used as a noun or adjective (similar to how there is America and American, except “Webican” would sound stupid).
Site: a place.
So, a place on the Web? A Web site.
“But I like website… it’s not as stuffy, more people use it, and the English language should just adapt.”
No, it should not. Not when there is a grammatically-correct term that is already in existence. This isn’t German, where we mush all this stuff together to make our nouns. It’s not Website, website, or whatever, just like it isn’t Microsoftwindows, Applecomputer, Kleenextissues or what have you.
That is all.
