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EXAMPLES OF GREAT URL DESIGN

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Thoughtful URL design strikes a balance between the needs of computers and humans. For example, StackOverflow’s URLs combine a unique identifier and a human-readable slug, so both computers and humans can understand a URL without having to visit it. Slack incorporates natural language sentences into URLs. GitHub and NPM map well to their respective domain semantics, making navigation efficient.