What Is A Url?

The term URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator.

Which is basically the identity and location of a website, file and or any other piece of content on the web.

You can find the URL of a webpage in the address bar at the top of your browser.

yoururl

A URL can be broken down into three main parts,

The Protocol eg; http://
The Domain Name eg www.yourwebsite.com
The Web Page, file and file type. /category/webpage.php

It would be fair to say that everything on the web has a URL associated to it,

Using URL’s is how the web links together, The internet is a whole bunch of URL’s linking together, that is why you will also hear the term “Links” used a lot on the web.

You basically have webpages linking together with URL’s,

There is a lot more you could say about URL’s and Protocols and so on, but you really don’t need to concern yourself to much with a lot of the real techy stuff.

But, If you do want to dig a little deeper into the meaning of URL’s, Here’s a link to Wikipedia’s description of what a URL is.

Go To Wikipedia

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