Websnark refers to the website Websnark.com, and a webcomic review on the site. The site is a critical and popular culture commentary website and blog, and the reviews are known for increasing traffic to the site. It is in use mostly in webcomic circles, although its endurance is yet to be determined. Webcomics, also known as online comics and web comics, are comics that are available on the Internet. ... Example graph of web traffic at Wikipedia in December 2004 Web traffic is the amount of data sent and received by visitors to a web site. ... Webcomics, also known as online comics and web comics, are comics that are available on the Internet. ...

Websnark.com began in August 2004 by Eric A. Burns as his commentary blog, which quickly migrated towards a webcomics theme. Currently, it has two authors, the aforementioned Eric Burns, and Wednesday White, who joined the regular writing team in February 2005. Eric Alfred Burns is the creator of the popular culture and webcomic commentary website Websnark and writer of the webcomic Gossamer Commons. ... The first use of the term weblog. ... Wednesday White is a Canadian citizen currently living in the United Kingdom. ...

Although Burns has written reviews for and has a monthly column at Comixpedia, Websnark tends not to contain reviews of full comic runs, but will instead focus on the day's comic (often in the context of the strips preceding it). Site regulars refer to Websnark reviews as snarks, and the activity of writing them as snarking. Each snark is usually accompanied by a size-reduced thumbnail of the strip it is reviewing, and a link to said strip at the webcomic's archive page.

For the most part, the commentary in a given snark will center around particular elements of the strip that the commentator found noteworthy (whether good or bad); strips Burns finds particularly outstanding earn their creators "a tasty, tasty biscuit"—Websnark's equivalent of kudos or a gold star. (White has not to date dispensed biscuits.) In keeping with its blog format, occasionally the site will also feature some of Burns's novel-writing or webcomic projects, an essay, or a personal update. A biscuit is a type of food. ... Kudos (always singular, even though it looks like a plural): fame and renown resulting from an act or achievement; prestige thus by logical extension is often used as a praising remark. ... The first use of the term weblog. ... Webcomics, also known as online comics and web comics, are comics that are available on the Internet. ...

The longest essays on the Websnark site are in the You Had Me And You Lost Me series. These essays detail the author's discovery of a particular webcomic and what they liked about it, how it grew and changed over the comic's run, and the point where the author eventually stopped reading it. A webcomic which is close to being lost is put on the "Why Do I Read This Webcomic, Again?" list.

Also included in the site's lexicon is the phrase Cerebus Syndrome—named after Dave Sim's Cerebus the Aardvark—which describes the scenario when a light, gag-a-day comic adds layer after layer of sophistication to its characters and set-up. Eventually, the strip comes to the point where the strip bears little resemblance to its roots and is the greater for it (on the web, the seminal example is Sluggy Freelance). There is also First and Ten Syndrome, named after an early HBO program which shifted directions abruptly between seasons, losing its old viewers and failing to attract new ones. The phrase describes when a comic does just that (or something similar), often the result of a failed attempt at Cerebus Syndrome. Cerebus issues 112 and 113, from 1988. ... Sluggy Freelance is one of the longest running, best-known and most popular webcomics, with a new comic released daily since August 25, 1997 (Except for 8 days in August 2001 and filler art on many other ocassions). ... HBO logo HBO (Home Box Office) is a premium cable television network. ...

The recent success of Websnark seems to have a number of roots: firstly, many find that the Websnark site is clean, accessible and has a personal voice. Secondly, many webcartoonists have reciprocated a link from Websnark, even if their comic was criticized. (Recently, the site has even begun to receive mention in advertising banners for particular webcomic strips.) Thirdly, Websnark occasionally dabbles in in-depth analysis, which probably kickstarted its success when an analysis of PvP was linked by Scott Kurtz, PvP's author. PvP, also known as Player Vs. ... For PvP in multiplayer computer role-playing games, see player versus player. ...

The term snark did not originate with Websnark; rather, Websnark was named for the word already in use. According to The Urban Dictionary, snark is a contraction of "snide remark" (although in the Websnark sense, a snark is not necessarily snide). Some will point to the Lewis Carroll classic, The Hunting of the Snark, for the term's origin, but Carroll's snarks had very little to do with the sense in which the word is used today. The word snark has a number of uses: A Snark (Lewis Carroll) is a fictional animal, the quarry for a hunting party comprising some highly unlikely characters in Lewis Carrolls The Hunting of the Snark A snark (graph theory) is a graph in which each vertex has three edges... Photograph of Lewis Carroll taken by himself, with assistance Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was a British author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. ... Lewis Carrolls The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a comic poem about a group of adventurers hunting a legendary beast. ...