Home Site vs Hub Site vs Root Site vs Comm Site

Are you confused about the difference between a Communication Site, a Hub site, a Home Site, and a Root Site? In this video, I explain the difference between these four unique SharePoint terms/types of sites. 00:00 - Intro 01:45 - Communication Site 05:37 - Hub Site 09:15 - Home Site 15:46 - Root Site 21:03 - SharePoint Start Page 👉 Continue learning more on this topic, by watching this video: https://youtu.be/HKuzv2vYBUQ?si=uvYaLtJaX5Qs_Ibn I also have additional details in this article as well: https://sharepointmaven.com/home-site-vs-sharepoint-start-page-vs-hub-site-vs-root-site/ A Communication Site is a site type used for one-way information sharing. An example would be an Intranet Main Site, a Human Resources Employee-facing site, or a Wiki Site. It has a wide-screen layout and site navigation appears on top of the site. A Hub Site is a functionality in SharePoint that allows to unite several different sites with common navigation (called Hub Navigation). When you pick a site to be a Hub Site, you register it as a Hub Site and then can associate other sites to it. You can have multiple Hub Sites as well. A Home Site is the most authoritative type of site in SharePoint. When you register a site as a Home Site, it gets special privileges (like the ability to boost news & announcements). You can only have 1 Home Site with most M365 plans (additional Home Sites available under a licensing arrangement). Moreover, you can take the Home Site and use it for Viva Connections (embed it inside the Teams application) Root Site is the default (first) site created within the Microsoft 365 tenant. It has the following address: domainname.sharepoint.com. All the future sites created have /sites/sitename suffixes. To summarize the above, a Communication Site can also be a root site, a Hub Site, and a Home site. It all depends on the requirements.