🔑短网址便于记忆和输入，减少对搜索引擎的依赖，使分享和沟通更加高效。它们能够显著提升用户体验，尤其是在文本、邮件或电话沟通中。

🌟短网址在视觉上更美观，展现网站制作者的用心，避免长网址带来的数字污染。它们不仅提升美观度，还能减少社交媒体分享按钮的视觉干扰。

🚀短网址通过去除中间环节，鼓励用户直接复制粘贴分享，避免受限于特定社交平台。这种做法有利于内容传播，并减少对可能存在问题的第三方平台的依赖。

🔐使用无扩展名的短网址，可以通过简单的服务器配置实现，如将HTML文件直接以短网址形式访问。这种做法保证了网址的简洁性，同时确保了内容的正确显示。

📈短网址在长度上具有足够的独特性，例如使用36个字符组合即可产生数百万种独特网址，满足个性化需求，且无需过度追求极短长度而牺牲可读性。

If you make your own website, consider making short URLs.

This is not about a URL shortener.This is about making your original URLs short in the first place.

Instead of:
yoursite.com/blog/2022/05/08/short-urls-why-and-how.html
… consider just:
yoursite.com/short

Why?

Short URLs matter for a few reasons:

I can remember my URLs.I can avoid the search engine step.(No need to search when I already know the answer.)Which means…I can type it or say it.Whether texting, answering an email, or talking to someone on the phone, I can say, “Go to sive.rs/ff for my talk about the first follower.” or “My newest book is at sive.rs/h.”I do this often, so having memorable URLs, easy to type in full, saves me a lot of searching.They look nicer.They’re aesthetic.They show care.We should put something of beauty into the world, instead of creating digital pollution.They remove the middle-man.With long URLs, people use those ugly social share buttons that promote (and further entrench) harmful social media sites, and add visual clutter to your site.Short URLs encourage people to copy and paste the URL directly, which lets them share it anywhere, instead of only the sites for which you have a share button.They’re enough.Using 36 characters (a-z and 0-9):
2-character URLs give me 1296 (36²) unique combinations.
3-character URLs give me 46,656 (36³) unique combinations.
4-character URLs give me 1,679,616 (36⁴) unique combinations.
I don’t need more than that.

That doesn’t mean the shorter the better.If I can remember “/plaintext” easier than “/pt”, then that’s a better choice.

How?

Here’s how I do it:Save my HTML file as the URL name, with no extension.Instead of “hi.html”, I save it as “hi” in my public web root.

default_type text/html;

That’s it!That serves my files without extensions as HTML.