How to add a website link to the Home Screen on Android

What do you usually do to open the website? Firstly you launch the browser app. Then you tap on the address bar and then type the first words of the site’s name or tap on the icon in the favorite sites area. But do you know that you can access you favorite websites with one tap? Today we will tell you about a very easy but quite useful thing: how to create a shortcut to a website and add it to home screen on Android. This shortcut would be displayed on your home screen next to apps and would take you directly to a certain web page. In such a way you can quickly access you favorite websites right from the home screen.

How to add a website shortcut to the Home Screen on Android

Launch Google Chrome:

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Go to the website or to the specific web page the shortcut should point to:

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Press Menu and select Add to Home Screen:

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Rename the shortcut if needed and tap ADD:

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Drag the website shortcut wherever you want it to be:

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Now you can go to that web page by tapping the icon on your home screen! 

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