Well honestly, you are kind of comparing apples and oranges here. A business website is for profit where a personal homepage is not. However, the benefit to having a personal homepage allows you to separate your personal life from business life. With a personal homepage you can add a photo album and put up pictures of things you do in your free time. You can talk about topics related to your personal life rather than business life, and it gives you a podium so that you can display yourself in a way in which you want others to see you. Unfortunately personal homepage popularity has decreased a bit since social networking sites have dramatically taken over. I know some people who have personal homepages and they also add their resume so that if they are ever looking for a job, an employer can check out their personal homepage to see their resume and also get a feel for what that person's personal life is like to see how they might fit into the employer's culture. For instance does the person seem well rounded? Are they outgoing? Do they have more of a positive or negative aspect on life? Do they seem more ambitious or more relaxed? These are traits you cannot always tell about a person who has a business site, but becomes more visible in a personal homepage.