What is a URL Slug Generator?
A slug is the human-readable part of a URL: “/blog/how-to-compress-images”. Clean slugs are easier to read, share and rank: lowercase, hyphen-separated, no accents or punctuation.
This generator normalizes Unicode (café → cafe), strips symbols, and collapses everything else into hyphens. Multiple lines convert at once.
Frequently asked questions
Hyphens or underscores?
Hyphens. Search engines treat hyphens as word separators; underscores join words together.
What happens to accented characters?
They are transliterated to their base letter: é→e, ü→u, so slugs stay ASCII-safe.
Should slugs include stop words like “the”?
Short slugs read better, but never change a published URL just to remove a stop word: redirects cost more than the word.
Is there a length limit?
No hard limit, but 3-6 words is the readable sweet spot.