URL shortening

id: url-shortening-165-11413914
title: URL shortening
text: URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the required page. This is achieved by using a redirect which links to the web page that has a long URL. For example, the URL "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening" can be shortened to "https://w.wiki/U". Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one. A friendly URL may be desired for messaging technologies that limit the nu
brand slug: wiki
category slug: encyclopedia
description: Web technique
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening
date created: 2006-02-01T11:59:53Z
date modified: 2024-08-29T11:32:45Z
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