What transformations are applied?

Lowercase, replace spaces with hyphens, strip accents and non-ASCII, remove quotes and punctuation. Result is URL-safe ASCII.

Can I preserve diacritics?

Toggle 'transliterate' off to keep 'café' as 'café' (valid in modern URLs) instead of 'cafe'. Most modern search engines handle both.

Configurable — default 80 chars. Slugs longer than this get cropped at word boundaries for readability. Very long slugs hurt SEO.

Toggle 'remove stop-words' to strip 'the', 'a', 'of', etc. Produces shorter, keyword-focused slugs. Keep stop-words if grammar matters in the URL.

Generate URL-friendly slugs from text. Part of the DevTools Surf developer suite. Browse more tools in the Fun / Niche collection.

The term 'slug' comes from newspaper publishing, where a short identifier was used to track articles through the production process.
Google recommends URLs with 3-5 words in the slug for optimal SEO, as overly long URLs get truncated in search results.
WordPress popularized the term 'permalink slug' in 2003, making it standard vocabulary for web developers worldwide.

What transformations are applied?: Lowercase, replace spaces with hyphens, strip accents and non-ASCII, remove quotes and punctuation. Result is URL-safe ASCII.
Can I preserve diacritics?: Toggle 'transliterate' off to keep 'café' as 'café' (valid in modern URLs) instead of 'cafe'. Most modern search engines handle both.
Max length limit?: Configurable — default 80 chars. Slugs longer than this get cropped at word boundaries for readability. Very long slugs hurt SEO.
What about stop-words?: Toggle 'remove stop-words' to strip 'the', 'a', 'of', etc. Produces shorter, keyword-focused slugs. Keep stop-words if grammar matters in the URL.

Generate URL-friendly slugs from text. Part of the DevTools Surf developer suite. Browse more tools in the Fun / Niche collection.

The term 'slug' comes from newspaper publishing, where a short identifier was used to track articles through the production process.
Google recommends URLs with 3-5 words in the slug for optimal SEO, as overly long URLs get truncated in search results.
WordPress popularized the term 'permalink slug' in 2003, making it standard vocabulary for web developers worldwide.

What transformations are applied?: Lowercase, replace spaces with hyphens, strip accents and non-ASCII, remove quotes and punctuation. Result is URL-safe ASCII.
Can I preserve diacritics?: Toggle 'transliterate' off to keep 'café' as 'café' (valid in modern URLs) instead of 'cafe'. Most modern search engines handle both.
Max length limit?: Configurable — default 80 chars. Slugs longer than this get cropped at word boundaries for readability. Very long slugs hurt SEO.
What about stop-words?: Toggle 'remove stop-words' to strip 'the', 'a', 'of', etc. Produces shorter, keyword-focused slugs. Keep stop-words if grammar matters in the URL.