If you’re concerned about privacy and security, you’ve already done a lot to avoid online tracking. You probably use an extension like Privacy Badger and have ...

Google's newest web browser already starts trimming away a bit of detail to make it easier for newbies to understand where they are on the web. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

If networks of links are the road map that search engines use to crawl the web, URLs are the street names that give that map meaning and consistency. As such, URLs affect search engine optimization in ...

A URL is a Uniform Resource Locator, a tool used to find webpages. A URL is composed of a protocol, a domain name, a path to the webpage, and a webpage name. Here's a brief introduction to URLs and ...

If your website has a particularly long or complicated address but you need a shorter, "friendlier" URL to use in marketing materials, you may request a special URL that can be used to reach your site ...

Charnita is a wife, pet mom, tech enthusiast, and part-time freelance writer with over 14 years of experience. She's done countless app roundups, product reviews, and tutorials! In her free time, she ...

Google's John Mueller was asked if redirecting a URL to a new URL will also pass the Core Web Vitals metrics. The short answer is yes, if you redirect page A to new page B, page A's Core Web Vitals ...

Web URLs can get really, really long and that, in turn, leads to all sorts of problems. The first problem is one of simple usability. URLs that are 50, 100, or even 200 characters in length will wrap ...

Because www.wm.edu/offices/communityvalues/sarp/studenthandbook/ won't fit on a postcard. Good information architecture does not necessarily translate to simple URLs ...

Google's Chrome browser turns 10 today, and in its short life it has introduced a lot of radical changes to the web. From popularizing auto-updates to aggressively promoting HTTPS web encryption, the ...