The invention provides a website detection method and apparatus. According to the website detection method and apparatus, the type of a website to be detected is detected based on a detection condition that a uniform resource locator related feature value is added into a feature value, wherein the uniform resource locator related feature value is used for indicating the degree of correlation of the website to be detected and an vulnerable legitimate website, and the applicant of the invention also finds that illegal websites such as malicious phishing websites are all correlated with the vulnerable legitimate website, and therefore, when the type of the website to be detected is detected based on the detection condition that the uniform resource locator related feature value is added into the feature value, the accuracy of website detection can be improved.