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A home page, index page, or main page is a page on a website. A Home Page usually refers to:

• The initial or main web page of a website, sometimes called the "front page" (by analogy with newspapers).
• The first page that appears upon opening a web browser program, which is also sometimes called the start page. This 'start page' can be a website or it can be a page with various browser functions such as the visual display of websites that are often visited in the web browser Google Chrome.
• 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 "home 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.

A home page can also be used outside the context of websites, such as to refer to the principal screen of a user interface, which is also referred to as a home screen on mobile devices such as cell phones.