URL Slug Generator (Slugify)
Convert any text to a URL-friendly slug. Free, instant, no signup.
How to use this tool
- Enter text to slugify in the fields above.
- Results update instantly as you type — or click Calculate.
- Read your url slug and the full breakdown beneath it.
A slug is a URL-friendly version of a string: lowercase, words joined by hyphens, special characters removed. Used for blog post URLs, product IDs, and more.
How it works
URL Slug Generator (Slugify) converts any text into a URL-friendly slug: a lowercase, hyphen-separated string with spaces replaced by hyphens and special characters removed or transliterated. Slugs are used as the URL path component for blog posts, product pages, categories, and any other content where the URL should be both human-readable and technically safe.
Enter the title or heading you want to slugify and the tool lowercases all letters, replaces spaces and underscores with hyphens, strips or transliterates non-ASCII characters, removes punctuation and other unsafe URL characters, and collapses multiple consecutive hyphens into one. Leading and trailing hyphens are also removed.
A good slug is short, descriptive, and free of stop words where possible. This tool handles the technical transformation; you can then trim or shorten the result as needed for SEO or readability purposes.
Worked example
Create a blog post URL from a title
- Write the post title: 10 Tips for Better Sleep (2024 Guide!)
- Paste it into the Text to slugify field.
- Click Slugify.
- Read the output: 10-tips-for-better-sleep-2024-guide
- Use it as the URL path: /blog/10-tips-for-better-sleep-2024-guide
A clean, lowercase, hyphenated slug safe for use in any web URL.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Using underscores instead of hyphens in slugs: Google's search guidelines recommend hyphens as word separators in URLs; underscores cause Google to treat the entire sequence as one word.
- Including stop words and leaving very long slugs: slugs longer than 60-70 characters can be truncated by browsers and look unwieldy in social shares; trim after slugifying.
- Changing an existing published URL's slug: once a slug is live and indexed, changing it breaks incoming links and loses search ranking unless you set up a 301 redirect.
Key terms
- Slug
- A URL-friendly version of a string, typically all lowercase with words separated by hyphens and all special characters removed, used in web page URLs.
- Transliteration
- Converting characters from one script to a phonetic equivalent in another, such as replacing e-with-accent with plain e to make it ASCII-safe.
- Stop words
- Common short words (a, the, and, in, of) that add little meaning to a URL and are often removed from slugs to keep them concise.
Frequently asked questions
- What makes a good URL slug?
- A good slug is lowercase, uses hyphens as separators, contains only alphanumeric characters and hyphens, and is as short as possible while remaining descriptive.