Personal web page

In strictly technical terms, a site's actual home page (index page) often only contains sparse content with some catchy introductory material and serves mostly as a pointer or table of contents to the more content-rich pages inside, such as résumés, family, hobbies, family genealogy, a web log/diary ("blog"), opinions, online journals and diaries or other writing, examples of written work, digital audio sound clips, digital video clips, digital photos, or information about a user's other interests.

In the days when search engines were in their infancy, these pages (and the links they contained) could be an important resource in navigating the web.

At the same time, a personal web presence became easier with the increased popularity of social networking services, some with blogging platforms such as LiveJournal and Blogger.

These free webpages served as a perquisite ("perk") for staff, while at the same time boosting the Web visibility of the parent organization.

These are priced or limited according to the total size of all files in bytes on the host's hard drive, or by bandwidth, (traffic), or by some combination of both.

Mary Madden, an expert researcher on privacy and technology, did a study that found a tenth of American jobs require Personal web pages that advertise an individual online.

A personal web page gives the owner generally more control on presence in search results and how they wish to be viewed online.

[9][10][11] In the 2010s, some amateur writers, bands and filmmakers release digital versions of their stories, songs and short films online, with the aim of gaining an audience and becoming more well-known.

[citation needed] Academic professionals (especially at the college and university level), including professors and researchers, are often given online space for creating and storing personal web documents, including personal web pages, CVs and a list of their books, academic papers and conference presentations, on the websites of their employers.

This goes back to the early decade of the World Wide Web and its original purpose of providing a quick and easy way for academics to share research papers and data.