You can use GitHub Pages to host a website about yourself, your organization, or your project directly from a repository on GitHub. Who can use this feature? GitHub Pages is available in public repositories with GitHub Free and GitHub Free for organizations, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server. See GitHub's plans . In this article About GitHub Pages GitHub Pages is a static site hosting service that takes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files straight from a repository on GitHub, optionally runs the files through a build process, and publishes a website. You can see examples of GitHub Pages sites in the GitHub Pages examples collection . Types of GitHub Pages sites There are two types of GitHub Pages sites. Sites associated with a user or organization account, and sites for a specific project.

Hosting on your own custom domain You can host your site on GitHub's github.io domain or your own custom domain. See Configuring a custom domain for your GitHub Pages site . Data collection When a GitHub Pages site is visited, the visitor's IP address is logged and stored for security purposes, regardless of whether the visitor has signed into GitHub or not. For more information about GitHub's security practices, see GitHub Privacy Statement . Further reading GitHub Pages on GitHub Skills REST API endpoints for repositories Configuring a publishing source for your GitHub Pages site About custom domains and GitHub Pages