URL Slug Generator

A slug is the part of a URL that identifies a page in readable words — the 10-tips-for-reading-faster in example.com/blog/10-tips-for-reading-faster. This generator produces one from any title, applying the standard rules in one pass: everything lowercased, punctuation and symbols stripped, spaces and underscores converted to hyphens, and stray hyphens at the ends trimmed.

The slug updates live as you type, with its length and segment count shown alongside — useful when you're deciding how much of a long title to keep.

Generation happens in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.

Consistent slugs matter more than people expect. 'My Post!.html', 'my_post', and 'My-Post' are three different URLs to a search engine, and mixing conventions across a site creates duplicate-content headaches and broken links. Generating slugs the same way every time avoids the whole category of problems.

Readable slugs also perform better with humans: a URL that says what the page is about earns more clicks from search results and looks trustworthy when shared. Search engines treat words in the URL as a (small) relevance signal, so keeping the meaningful words is worth the ten seconds.

CMS platforms auto-generate slugs, but they do it naively — keeping stop words and producing 90-character monsters from long titles. Pasting your title here first lets you trim to the 3–6 words that matter before the URL is locked in.

1. Type or paste your title into the input box.

2. The slug appears instantly, along with its length and word segments.

3. Edit the title text to shorten or reword the slug — drop filler words like 'the' and 'a'.

4. Copy the slug into your CMS before publishing.

Input:

10 Tips for Reading Faster (2026 Edition!)

Output:

10-tips-for-reading-faster-2026-edition