the.com/homepage
The front door everyone judges, redesigns, then quietly stops visiting once bookmarks exist.
means The main introductory page of a website, the default screen a browser opens to, or the landing point a site presents first.
from A straightforward English compound of "home" and "page," born with the World Wide Web in the early 1990s. "Home" carries its ancient sense of a base or starting point — the same instinct that gave us "home base" in games — while "page" comes via Old French from Latin "pagina," a sheet or leaf of writing. So a homepage is literally the page you come home to: the digital equivalent of the entry hall, coined the moment people needed a word for where a website begins.
- original meaning
- Tim Berners-Lee's first site was the web's first homepage
- three-second rule
- Users decide to stay or bounce almost instantly
- slow death
- Search and social now bypass most homepages entirely
- the F
- Eyes scan homepages in an F-shaped pattern