Home page or homepage?
home page is a noun meaning “The main or first page of a website or set of hyperlinked documents”; homepage is a noun meaning “Alternative form of home page”. home page is written as two words and homepage as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between home page and homepage?
| home page | homepage | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | The main or first page of a website or set of hyperlinked documents The default page set to open in a web browser or hypertext system when it starts up, or when its home function is invoked | Alternative form of home page |
| Example | A computer virus kept changing my home page to a site full of adware | none recorded |
| Forms | none | homepages |
| Pronunciation | /ˈhəʊmpeɪdʒ/ /ˈhoʊmpeɪdʒ/ | not recorded |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | 2.8 times per million words |
Sources: home page and homepage in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of home page and homepage
home page
- 1
The main or first page of a website or set of hyperlinked documents
- 2
The default page set to open in a web browser or hypertext system when it starts up, or when its home function is invoked
A computer virus kept changing my home page to a site full of adware
- 3
Someone's public personal home page/site on the World Wide Web
My home page is www.example.com/~user
homepage
- 1
Alternative form of home page
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, home page or homepage?
home page is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; homepage 2.8 times per million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search home page vs homepage?
“home page vs homepage” is searched about 50 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“homepage vs home page”, “home page or homepage”).
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.