here is something useful, you probably figured it out already though -> pin things within app you use most often to access it directly, this includes favourite website (though web sites i usually don't bother pinning... don't have one that I go to "that" often
another great thing to pin is your most used contacts (and groups too), I have a group for family and a group for friends which I pin to start, makes things much easier, groups like coworker i leave in the people hub to save space on start screen