Home page

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A home page or homepage has various related meanings to do with web sites:

• It most often refers to the initial or main web page of a web site, sometimes called the front page (by analogy with newspapers).
• The web page or local file that automatically loads when a web browser starts or when the browser's "home" button is pressed; this is also called a start page. The user can specify the URL of the page to be loaded, or alternatively choose e.g. to re-load the most recent web page browsed.
• A personal web page, for example at a web hosting service or a university web site, that typically is stored in the home directory of the user.
• In the 1990s the term was also used to refer to a whole web site, particularly a personal web site (perhaps because simple web sites often consisted of just one web page).

About homepages

• Homepages contain the main information about a website.
• They contain links to other parts of the website.
• Many websites consist of only the homepage, such as one page blogs.
• Most often a homepage will appear when the websites URL is put into a browser without any trialing slash after the TLD extension. E.G. "http://www.example.com"

See also

Internet portal

• Start page
• Landing page
• index.html
• main page