What is a URL slug and what does this Slug Generator do?
A URL slug is the readable path segment that often identifies a page. This generator normalizes text according to visible options, replaces unsupported runs with one separator, trims separators, and shortens at a practical boundary when a maximum is supplied.
How to use Slug Generator
Enter a title or short phrase.
Choose case, separator, diacritic handling, Unicode handling and maximum length.
Review the generated slug and non-live preview path.
Copy only the slug or the slash-wrapped path.
Key features
- Hyphen or optional underscore separator
- Lowercase and repeated-separator controls
- Diacritic removal or Unicode preservation
- Maximum-length trimming at a nearby separator
- Honest preview labelled as a path, not an existing page
Input guide
Short descriptive titles usually produce the most useful slugs. With Preserve Unicode off, only ASCII letters and digits remain. With it on, letters and numbers from other scripts may remain. Emoji and most punctuation become separators or are removed.
How to understand your results
Slug is the generated path segment. Original and slug lengths count visible characters. Words included counts separator-delimited parts. Characters normalized is a structural difference indicator, not an SEO score.
Worked example
Résumé Writing: 10 Practical Tips!
With lowercase, hyphens and diacritic removal, the result is “resume-writing-10-practical-tips”.
Common use cases
- Draft paths for articles and documentation
- Normalize imported page titles
- Compare ASCII and Unicode URL choices
- Enforce a practical project-specific slug length
Slug Generator guidance and best practices
- Keep slugs descriptive and stable once a page is public.
- Use redirects when changing a live URL.
- Choose one separator convention consistently across a site.
Limitations, assumptions and cautions
- The preview does not create or verify a page.
- A clean slug cannot guarantee search performance.
- Transliteration beyond removable combining marks is not performed.
Privacy and processing
Runs in your browser.
Runs in your browser. The title and generated slug remain local and are not added to the canonical share URL.
Related tools
These live canonical tools support a useful adjacent task without duplicating this one.
Slug Generator FAQs
Clear guidance for choosing and using the catalogue responsibly.
What is a URL slug?
It is a readable segment of a URL path, often derived from a page title.
How does the Slug Generator clean text?
It applies the selected case and Unicode rules, replaces unsupported runs with one separator, and trims edges.
Should I use hyphens or underscores in a slug?
Hyphens are the typical web convention; underscores remain available for systems that require them.
Does the tool remove punctuation?
Yes. Unsupported punctuation becomes a separator boundary and repeated separators are collapsed.
Can accented characters be normalized?
Yes. The Remove diacritics option decomposes many accented characters and removes combining marks.
Can I preserve Unicode characters?
Yes. Preserve Unicode keeps letters and numbers from non-ASCII scripts.
Does the generated slug guarantee better SEO rankings?
No. URL wording is only one part of a useful, accessible page and cannot guarantee rankings.
Can I set a maximum slug length?
Yes. The tool applies a capped length and prefers a nearby complete separator boundary.
Does my title stay in my browser?
Yes. Slug generation is entirely local.