Homepage

What is a Homepage?

A homepage is the main webpage of a website or of a person or organization who owns a website. Generally, the homepage is what you get by typing just the domain name of the website in the address bar of your web browser. For example, if you type google.com, you end up in the URL https://www.google.com/, which is Google's homepage.

Note that in a URL such as https://www.google.com/, we call the part after the domain name (after www.google.com), the path of the URL. In this case, the path is just a single /. This is also called the root path. Some domain names host multiple websites for its users, therefore having multiple homepages at different paths. For example, there could be a /~mary/ for Mary's homepage, and a /~john/ for John's homepage.

There are also cases of having separate homepages per subdomain. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia in several languages, each with its own subdomain: en.wikipedia.org is the English Wikipedia homepage, pt.wikipedia.org is the Portuguese Wikipedia homepage, and so on.

A homepage shouldn't be confused with a landing page. A landing page is a webpage in a website that describes a product or service offered to potential clients. For example, if a company sells guitars and trucks, its homepage will be about the company itself, while it may have a landing page /guitars that it uses when it advertises its guitars, and a landing page /trucks that it uses when it advertises its trucks.

Abbreviation

Homepage is sometimes abbreviated HP.