Questions tagged [urls]
a character string used to represent a location on the Internet that can be typed or accessed by a user. URLs often present in human-readable the organization behind the website and the function of the specific page being navigated to, in addition to their purely functional use.
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What is the best personal domain name if .com is taken? [closed]
My name is John Hon. I am an entrepreneur based in Australia. I wanted to have a personal website to post my thoughts on.
Sadly johnhon.com is taken.
I realised my options are that I can register ...
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Should I update an items slug after renaming item
So we are currently using slugs in URLS as identifers, like website.com/item/my-nice-item where to slug is generated from the item name "My nice item!"
Now the user will be able to rename ...
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Does URL structure really matter to users?
I have seen a bunch of answers regarding URL structure and SEO. However, I would like to know does URL structure really matter to users?
For example, if I have:
Parentsite.com/brand1
Parentsite.com/...
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Why do some emails include a link to the same destination as the button right above them?
Can someone explain the purpose behind this practice?
Is it an accessibility issue and is this practice outdated?
For example:
"If you have trouble with the link above, copy and paste this URL ...
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What is the best experience for generating unique usernames?
We are building a social network and as part of user onboarding, we want to assign each user a unique username
The only currently defined use case for the username is the profile URL, i.e. if your ...
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Is it a weird user experience to add parameters to a url just for internal tracking?
I have an internal request to add parameters to the url like ?from=productPage&searchTerm=[term] so that pages can be tracked for analytics. This feels like a weird smell to me, especially as the ...
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How to structure URLs for language localized marketing and admin pages
So I have let's say 20 languages the marketing pages of the website are localized into. I am thinking of doing this...
mywebsite.com/en/page-1
mywebsite.com/en/page-2
mywebsite.com/zh/page-1
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Is it a good idea to use fb.me over facebook.com in advertising material?
Apologies if there's a better Stack site for this, but I can't think of what it could be.
I'm designing some flyers for an upcoming side business of mine, and need to include a link to my Facebook ...
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Paths Short or Long
I am working through a problem with path names. The previous version of a site used short codes for url paths. Coming into this for a new project and the short code based paths, while deterministic, ...
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What should be app URL vs organisation URL?
I have created an App. Let's say MyApp.
Now, what should be URL for the app?
The name of the organization is also the same. Let's say "myapp Inc".
So what is the best practice to display ...
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Is there any standard for modern browsers showing/hiding the URL protocol within a browser’s URL area/omnibox?
This post is sparked by this recent post on SuperUser as well as this other SuperUser post from 2018 on the same topic.
Basically, some modern web browsers purposefully obfuscate (aka: hide) the URL ...
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What is the most preferred subsite url for a dashboard? (subsite.site.com)
What is the best URL for dashboards?
What is the most common and what users remember the best?
Examples:
go.site.com
on.site.com
dashboard.site.com
app.dashboard.com
PS I hope url naming is ...
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How to make a printed gTLD name apparently a URL meant to be typed in by users?
I'm making a full page ad and have a short link that users will hopefully enter into their browser to learn more and place a purchase. It is a generic top level domain, but pretty short, then has a ...
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How close should a link mimic the underlying URL?
Situation:
We have a website where a link is present with the following text:
iPads & Tablets
This link refers to the following URL:
https://www.website.com/tablet-watch
Question:
Is it ...
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Are URLs important for the user?
I am developing a web application and wondering if it is important to have URLs which are explicit and informative for the user or not.
Or should I just focus on the good design of the web pages ...
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URL paths: to change or not to change
I work for a website that allows users to browse and discover live theater.
We offer one experience under the /shows/city path where users can browse the complete list of every show in a city. In ...
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Does .org really makes your visitor trust you more than .com?
I'm currently launching a new storytelling community, which its goal isn't targeted as making profit. Should we use .com or .org?
Talking beside buying both, I prefer .org since we're a community ...
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Are URLs in alt text usable?
In a recent edit I made on UX Stack Exchange, I added some alt text to an image that contained the URL of a page at which the reader could see a textual version of the content in the image.
However, ...
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Facets in search page URL
Note: This is similar to this question, but I'm asking specifically about the use of facets.
I am working on re-implementing search functionality on a site for which search is quite important. There ...
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Is have a "x" in a domain to join word a good idea? [closed]
We all know there isn't much dictionary word .com domain out there, so many people are taking domains like my-clay.com or domain that has multi-words.
So currently I'm finding a domain, and ...
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Increment IDs or base64/hash for URLs?
I've built an app where users have "rooms". Each room needs an identifier.
I've decided against using "slugs" like example.com/room/my-room-name because I want room names need to be non-unique, ...
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Should we choose a meaningful domain name or a easy to type domain name?
So as we expected, most users are visiting website on their phone, for some big phones there might be this issue, but if you're an iPhone 5 user or other 4 inch phone user you might found out that you ...
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How to automatically add protocol to incomplete URL? [closed]
The user must fill in the url for the correct functionality of the system, including protocol (http or https). In the most cases, user pastes URL with protocol.
Less often pastes URL without protocol ...
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Will unique domain/hard to pronounce cause less visitor
I bought a domain munucial.com because I named my project "Munucial".
But after registering it I found an issue, though Munucial.com might not be considered a long url since .com can be typed by one ...
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What happens when users are given a secret URL instead of a username/password?
I'm on the fence in regards to whether I should implement user accounts or secret URLs. There are pros and cons to both, and I'm currently leaning in favor of the secret URLs because of the simplicity:...
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pdf download url on a webpage
I seem to remember that a browser can be configured via a setting to control what happens when a pdf url is clicked. I think the options are something like "Open in new page" or "Open as file". I ...
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Choosing between Two Sub-optimal Domain Names
I'm looking to create a website to use with a small business. However, due to the specific domain name I'm looking at being far too expensive for me to purchase, I'm forced to use one of two domain ...
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Is it adequate UX to ask for a URL, cloud hosted or otherwise, for images in the Django admin interface?
I'm working on a Django project with data entry presently handled by the Django admin interface. I intend to provide my own interface as an adaptation of the Django admin interface concept to provide ...
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Any research showing which is easier for humans? SUB.Domain.com or Domain.com/SUB
This may be splitting hairs.
But I'm trying to provide a url in an ad.
Two choices are:
Prize.Domain.com
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Domain.com/prize
I could also, I guess use www.Domain.com/prize
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Best URL folder structure for user-based website [closed]
In my website users sign up. Then in the users panel, they can add items (ex. services they provide such as "Business Card Design") that may be not unique; i.e. other users may add that item too. But ...
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What can be used to create a unique URL for a user's public page? [closed]
Many websites use the form https://www.example.com/username as the unique URL to a user's public page. For example, Jeff Atwood's public twitter feed is at https://twitter.com/codinghorror.
What ...
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Split website by country using TLD, subdomain, or subdirectory?
Where 99.9% of queries are filtered for a specific country and it be prudent to split the website accordingly, should the website be split by TLD, subdomain, or subdirectory? What are the advantages/...
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Trimming Trailing Whitespace from user input
I have a form with user input fields for a manufacturer name and a product name that become a part of the URL
www.foo.bar/manufacturer_name/product_name/
Browsers will trim the trailing whitespace ...
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Is it better to replace the homepage with the user profile after log in?
I'm working on a web application where I also need to code a user registration/login feature.
I'm in the process of working on the user-side of the system (in other words, what the user sees after ...
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How to deal with extra URL path directories
On my website a user can navigate to one of the following URLs:
www.example.com/dir1/ #items list
www.example.com/dir1/item1/ #items' content
www.example.com/dir1/item2/row3/ ...
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Does the length of a URL affect user experience?
When I see urls with one word (e.g., ux.stackexchange.com), I understand that this is the main page of the whole project, which explains the philosophy of whole project. It's like a "book cover." And ...
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Difference between clickable words "link" or "website" vs. having the actual clickable URL?
What would be the advantages/disadvantages to the two?
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User-friendly short URL aliases with words or emojis
First off, I’m not talking about quicklinks or SEO of URL paths on a site you’re in control of, but shorter aliases for third-party addresses.
As far as I can see there are several major reasons why ...
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effect of using a Shortened URL upon website branding
We have a website with 2 URLs the name of website is like betteroffers but because it is very long we bought 2 urls like betteroffers.com and betterO.com, which redirects to the first. (The addresses ...
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How can I convey that a domain name with an obscure TLD is a URL?
We've seen an increasing number of obscure TLDs including things like .ninja and .pizza. If I were to build a website and get a domain name like example.pizza, how would I go about convincing a user ...
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What would be the pros and cons of using .xyz domain?
Recently I've seen a lot of people/companies migrating to the .xyz domain, including Alphabet with the abc.xyz domain.
What would be the benefits of using it, since it's being more and more popular? ...
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How did watsapp keep an image in the url? [closed]
See the globe picture? I could not find an answer in any website as to how they pulled this off. Any clue?
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What's the pros and cons of the arroba @ use to references profile on url
Many services as twitter references profiles as hostname/username.
Medium (by twitter) references yours users as medium.com/@username.
For me, medium's way is so good because not causes confusion.
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Where to redirect after inviting someone?
We have 3 states for Users: Active, Invited and Disabled. Each user with the specific state is broken into a different tab. For example:
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq ...
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Sharing information between users on QR codes - better to pull from a server?
I'm building an app that revolves around users scanning each other's QR codes and sharing information. This would be the main feature of the app, but often times the information in the QR code can ...
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URL for public user page - hyphenated or camelCase?
What are some pros/cons for using camelCase vs hyphens in URLs for a username? As in, what is better (in terms of readability, writability, style, SEO, other):
example.com/justinBieber (a la ...
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Enhancing web addresses as displayed in a browser location input
Web addresses (URL, URI, IRI …) are composed of hierarchical data of several kinds. They are mostly treated as plain text, but browsers have started to highlight certain parts (the domains) and hide ...
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Date in the url
I am in the early stages of a web site where I post every week. each post has a file. I thought it was better not to include the date in the name of the file and that makes the url the same way. I try ...
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What URL's characteristics have a real impact on the UX?
I'm starting a blog soon so I've been thinking about what I should take into account when choosing an URL.
Some variables I've thought about: Length, meaning, suffix, memorability, SEO.
Related to ...
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deleting parts of the url to get to the page above
Imagine a situation where there is site with urls
somesite.com/events
which is a list of events
and
somesite.com/events/event-name
which is a detail of particular event.
Now due to some ...
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