What is URL? If you enter any website, you will probably see the term “URL” mentioned. A friend might tell you to go to a certain URL, or you might discover that you can receive discounts when you share a URL through social media.
If you are not very computer savvy, the term URL can be confusing. What is the meaning of url? Here's a quick and easy guide to understanding URLs, which will make it easier for you to get started surfing the internet.
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“URL” is an abbreviation that stands for “Universal Resource Locator“. It's another name for a web address, the text you type into your internet browser when you want to go to a website.
A URL is also called a web address because it works like a home address. You can use a home address to find a friend's house or store that you want to visit. If you give your browser a URL, it can find the web page you want to visit.
For example, the URL for Escola Educação is https://www.escolaeducacao.com.br/. When you want to visit the website, just open your web browser and enter that URL in the address field.
URLs are easy to remember and easy to use, but computers need information to be presented to them differently in order to navigate to the right site for you.
Your web browser finds web pages using an IP or Internet protocol. Users use URLs, which generally remain the same and make sense to our brains. When you type a URL into an address field, your browser uses something called DNS (Domain Name Server) to translate the URL to the corresponding IP. The browser can use these numbers to find information for you.
A URL usually looks something like this:
The URL shortener is a free tool to shorten a social network link, that is, it turns a long URL into a short URL.
The most used shortener for URLs is from Google's own system (Link).
Links are not the same as URLs, although sometimes people say "link" when they mean "URL". For example, “Type the link into your web browser”.
A link is a piece of text that has been associated with a URL such that if you clicked on that text, you would be taken to the page the URL points to. This saves you time by allowing you to easily explore associated web pages without having to copy and paste URLs into your browser.
A URL that starts with "https://" indicates that you are on a secure site. This means that if you enter personal information on this site, it will be encrypted before being transmitted. Encrypted information cannot be easily intercepted by hackers.
URLs go by some other names as well. You may also hear them referred to as Universal Resource Locators, Web Addresses, or Internet Addresses.
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