adj.
Describes a Web site that encourages visitors to spend long periods of time visiting its various pages.
Example Citation:
"Most so-called 'top site' surveys measure how many individuals visit a site....What they don't necessarily tell you is which sites are 'stickiest.' That's the new Web buzzword for sites that are especially good at keeping visitors engaged."
— Annette Hamilton, "Web Sites We Hate to Leave," Jesse Berst's AnchorDesk
Notes:
The sticky adjective is itself becoming linguistically sticky by latching on to different usages. Here's an example:
"Genes released into the environment can replicate themselves ad infinitum. Indeed, some studies suggest that transgenes are particularly 'sticky' — better at getting themselves around in nature than ordinary genes, possibly because of the viral and bacterial vectors used to engineer them."
— Michael Pollan, "Genetic Pollution," The New York Times, December 9, 2001
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