What is URL?
Also called: Uniform Resource Locator, Link, Web address
The short answer
A URL is the full address of one specific resource on the web, made of a protocol, a domain and a path, like https://example.com/pricing.
URL, explained
Read left to right: https:// is the protocol, example.com is the domain, /pricing is the path to one page, and anything after a ? is a query string that passes extra information.
Clean, readable URLs help people trust a link before they click it and help search engines understand what a page is about.
Questions people ask about URL
What is URL?
A URL is the full address of one specific resource on the web, made of a protocol, a domain and a path, like https://example.com/pricing.
What is a slug in a URL?
The slug is the readable last part of a URL that names the page, like how-to-bake-bread in /blog/how-to-bake-bread.
Related terms
A domain name is the human-readable address of a website, such as example.com, that points to the server where the site lives.
HTTP and HTTPSHTTP is the protocol browsers and servers use to exchange web pages; HTTPS is the encrypted version, shown by the padlock, and is now the default for every site.
Canonical URLA canonical URL tells search engines which address is the main version of a page when the same content is reachable at several URLs.
WebsiteA website is a collection of linked web pages published under one domain name, stored on a server and viewed in a web browser.
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