Webservers and HTTP Response

A webserver is software and hardware where websites are stored, processed, and delivered over an HTTP connection.

Once web servers receive an HTTP request, they process it and generate an HTTP response. This response contains the requested website and other important information. The browser has now received the content for the website and displays the requested webpage.

At a broader level, browsers go through the aforementioned steps to display a website. This may seem like a very long process, but they are performed instantly and browsers display websites within milliseconds.