Home page

A home page (or homepage) is the main web page of a website. The term may also refer to the start page shown in a web browser when the application first opens.

Not to be confused with Home screen. For other uses, see Home page (disambiguation).
"Startpage" redirects here. For the Startpage search engine, see Startpage.com.
A home page of Wikipedia (in 2014) is displayed in a web browser. The small house-shaped button in the upper left is for the browser's start page.

Website home page

A home page is generally the primary web page which a visitor navigating to a website from a search engine will see, and it may also serve as a landing page to attract visitors.[1][2] Thus good home page design is usually a high priority for a website.[3] For example, a news website may present headlines and first paragraphs of top stories, with links to full articles.[4] Usually, the home page is located at the root of the website's domain or subdomain. For example, if the domain is example.com, the home page is likely located at www.example.com/.

In some cases, the home page is a site directory, particularly when a website has multiple home pages. Wikipedia, for example, has a site directory at wikipedia.org that links to every language-specific home page, including en.wikipedia.org.

Browser home page

When a web browser is launched, a startup page typically loads, which can be a website or a special browser page, such as thumbnails of frequently visited websites.[5][6] Moreover, there is a niche market of websites intended to be used solely as start pages.[7]

References
  1. "Home Page as Landing Page examples - Smart Insights Digital Marketing Advice". 2014-05-23. Retrieved 2016-07-01.
  2. Campbell, Jennifer (2014). Web Design: Introductory. Cengage Learning. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-305-17627-0.
  3. Jakob Nielsen (12 May 2002). "Top 10 Guidelines for Homepage Usability". nngroup.com. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
  4. Kalbach, James (2007). Designing Web Navigation. O'Reilly Media. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-596-55378-4.
  5. "How to set the home page | Firefox Help". support.mozilla.org. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
  6. "Set your homepage and startup page - Computer - Google Chrome Help". support.google.com. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  7. Schofield, Jack (7 November 2013). "iGoogle: what are the best alternatives?". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
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