A word for moving from one website to another

Solution 1:

Developers sometimes use the term navigating, which includes using bookmarks and the back and forth buttons.

Update: If you don't like that (or navigation for the noun) how about visit as a verb meaning to go to some specified web site.

Solution 2:

Off the top of my list:

  • switch
  • migrate (too harsh and is rather used when, say, you change search engines)
  • Go (ubiquitous and seems just right for any browsing activity)
  • hop (as in : site-hopping) (this seems to fit in the context of the question)(can be used as a noun too, even as gerund)

Solution 3:

You can load a page, open a page, bring up a page, browse to a page, and so on. If needed, you can supplant the word page with site.

Solution 4:

You could say it is a shift from one page to the other. In this case, shift means "a change or transfer from one place, position, direction, person, etc., to another."

Or you could say this is toggling between pages or sites. In this case, toggle means "to switch to a different option, view, application, etc."

(Interestingly, in psychological studies about multitasking, both shift and toggle are used: shifts of focus and toggle between tasks.)

Solution 5:

I think "go" from one site to another is fine. It doesn't need to be complicated.

Just as if you were browsing in the high street you would "go" from one shop to another. You don't have to explain the act of walking :-)