Issues
Frustration over congestion issues in the Internet infrastructure and the high latency that results in slow browsing has led to an alternative name for the World Wide Web: the World Wide Wait. Speeding up the Internet is an ongoing discussion over the use of peering and QoS technologies. Other solutions to reduce the World Wide Wait can be found on W3C.
Pronunciation of "www"
Most English-speaking people pronounce the 9-syllable letter sequence www used in some domain names for websites as "double U, double U, double U" despite shorter options like "triple double U", triple dub or even "World Wide Web" being available.

Some languages do not have the letter w in their alphabet (for example, Italian), which leads some people to pronounce www as "vou, vou, vou." In some languages (such as Czech and Finnish) the w is substituted by a v, so Czechs pronounce www as "veh, veh, veh" rather than the correct but much longer pronunciation "dvojité veh, dvojité veh, dvojité veh;" the same applies to Finnish, where the correct pronunciation would be "kaksoisvee, kaksoisvee, kaksoisvee." Also in Norwegian, and similarly in Swedish and Danish: Instead of the correct "dobbel-ve, dobbel-ve, dobbel-ve" it is pronounced "ve, ve, ve". The pronunciation of "ve" instead of "dobbel-ve" is also used in other abbreviations. Several other languages (e.g. German, Dutch, Afrikaans etc.) simply pronounce the letter W as a single syllable, so this problem doesn't occur. In French "trois double-vé" is probably the most common pronunciation among non-geeks (geeks prefer the faster veu-veu-veu) in a way similar to Spanish, where www is often pronounced as "triple doble ve" or "triple uve doble" instead of "doble ve, doble ve, doble ve" or "uve doble, uve doble, uve doble".

There is no technical reason for a website's name to start with "www"; this is a common convention, just as many organizations once had their main public gopher site at gopher.wherever.edu and still have their public ftp servers at ftp.name.gov for example. Some browsers will automatically try adding "www." to the beginning, and possibly ".com" to the end, of typed URIs if a web page isn't found without them. With the Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers, hitting Control and Enter keys simultaneously will prefix 'www' and suffix '.com' to whatever has been typed into the address box. There is a website (no-www.org) advocating the relinquishment of this prefix.

In English pronunciation, saying the full words "World Wide Web" takes one-third as many syllables as saying the initialism "www". According to Berners-Lee, others mentioned this fact as a reason to choose a different name, but he persisted.

"[The World Wide Web is] the only thing I know of whose shortened form — www — takes three times longer to say than what it's short for."
— Douglas Adams, The Independent on Sunday, 1999
Another, less common way of saying "www" is w³, or "double u to the power of 3," ("power" because the 3 in w³ is superscripted). However, the use of this initialism is uncommon. One further way is "All the double-U s"

In New Zealand and occasionally in Australia, "www" is often pronounced "dub-dub-dub". This is widely accepted (for example its use in TV commercials appears standard) and is more concise than some other renditions in English.

In the Southern United States the two syllable pronunciation of the letter w "dub-ya" is often used, resulting in "dub-ya dub-ya dub-ya", even when spoken by persons who would normally use the "standard English" three syllable pronunciation for a single letter w.

In the US, some uncommon pronounciations include, "Triple dub," "Trip dub," and simply "wuh wuh wuh". Since the "www" prefix is not always necessary, it remains to be seen as to what form future URL pronounciations will take. In today's parlance, someone might say, "double-u, double-u, double-u dot amset dot oh-are-gee", a more likely verbalization would be "amset.org". The verbalization of URL's will continue to evolve until a standard is reached.

In Chinese language, world-wide-web is commonly transliterated to wàn wéi wǎng (万维网) by retaining the three w’s, and the original meaning of the original term, since wàn wéi wǎng means ten-thousand dimensional net (or web) in Chinese.

Many hyperlinks are outdated as time takes its toll on the existence of URL web links. These web links are often times defunct and are retained as hyperlinks for extended timeframes as a result of laziness or being busy enough to be sidetracked away from updating webpages. This is a common frustration for people who are fans in the field of what those links provide them with/to. Some call a website with many stale links a "cobweb."

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