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A webmaster is a person responsible for maintaining one or more websites. The title may refer to web architects, web developers, site authors, website administrators, website owners, website coordinators, or website publishers.

The duties of a webmaster could include:

Creating, editing, and publishing content on the website, either independently or with other content creators
Content placement
Managing a website's appearance, user access rights, and navigation
Ensuring that the web servers, hardware and software are operating correctly
A/B testing
Analysing traffic through the site
Ensuring the website is up to date and functioning correctly, e.g. installing updates, fixing bugs and errors, and optimizing performance
Optimizing the website's content and structure to improve its ranking in search engines (SEO), e.g. keyword research, link building, and optimizing meta tags and titles
Keeping the site secure, e.g. installing security software, monitoring for threats, and implementing practices for data protection
Analytics, e.g. monitoring the website's traffic and performance to make informed decisions about its content
Customer support, e.g. troubleshooting any issues that users may be experiencing.

Due to the RFC 822 requirement for establishing a "postmaster" email address for the single point of contact for the email administrator of a domain, the "webmaster" address and title were unofficially adopted by analogy for the website administrator. RFC 2142, which turned this common practice into a standard.

Webmasters may be generalists with HTML expertise who manage most or all aspects of web operations. Depending on the nature of the websites they manage, webmasters may be required to know scripting languages such as ColdFusion, JavaScript, JSP, .NET, Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby.^{[citation needed]} They may also need to know how to configure web servers such as Apache and be a server administrator.^{[citation needed]} Most server roles, however, would be overseen by an IT Administrator.^{[citation needed]}

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 A '''webmaster''' is a person responsible for maintaining one or more [[website]]s. The title may refer to web architects, [[web developer]]s, site authors, website [[System administrator|administrator]]s, website owners, website coordinators, or website publishers.
-The first webmaster is the creator of the world wide web: Tim Berners-Lee. He invented the world wide web in 1989 while in CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. He was been a role model to many people including the Google Founders (Larry and Sergey) when they decided to create a search engine that was dedicated to listing websites by webmasters around the world. Since then, there are millions of webmasters around the world.
-Though people may refer to themselves as a "web developer", webmasters were the active developers and still continue to be as more words are spin-off from the webmaster name.
 The duties of a webmaster could include:

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