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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You know what a URL does, but can you explain what URL stands for? We have the answer. You may already know that a URL is another way of saying “web address.” We all go to web addresses every day as ...

Google announced on Twitter it has added URL-level data in the example URLs within the Google Core Web Vitals report. Plus Google added that it made some textual changes to the report "to make it ...

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 ...