: What is good URI design? How should a good URI be designed? What are the factors to consider? What are the pros and cons of the variants? Factors that makes up a good URI Stability over

@Ogunnowo487

This advice, from Jakob Neilsen, was written back in 1999 but still seems pertinent today:


The URL will continue to be part of
the Web user interface for several
more years, so a usable site requires:


a domain name that is easy to remember and easy to spell
short URLs
easy-to-type URLs
URLs that visualize the site structure
URLs that are "hackable" to allow users to move to higher levels of the
information architecture by hacking
off the end of the URL
persistent URLs that don't change



From: URL as UI

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@Chiappetta492

These resources might help:


11 Best Practices for URLs
How to make URLs user-friendly

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@Cofer257

The real answer is to use whatever suits your site best. Some facts:


Keywords in the URL aid SEO and give users an idea of what the page is about. This is true for both static and dynamic URLs.
The consensus is that a lowercase slug, separated by dashes, is the best.
Search engines index dynamic URIs (e.g. index.php?page=about) just fine.
Using ID numbers in URLs is much easier/faster for grabbing the content from the database.
Search Engines prefer unique URLs, so it's best to avoid having parts of the URL with no bearing on what is displayed if possible.
Use rel="canonical" if you can't avoid possible duplicates. example.com/1234/my-page in theory should be different to example.com/1234/my-pgae but for most practical purposes they end up returning the same content, like on this site.

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@Ravi8258870

Neither:
example.com/good-uri-design

or at least:
example.com/articles/good-uri-design

Good slugs are not necessarily the same as the title, they should be concise and use URL friendly characters.

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