Why do some websites add "Slugs" to the end of URLs?
- by Dave Webb
Many websites, including this one, add what are apparently called slugs - descriptive but as far as I can tell useless bits of text - to the end of URLs.
For example, the URL the site gives for this question is:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/47427/why-do-some-websites-add-slugs-to-the-end-of-urls
But the following URL works just as well:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/47427/
Is the point of this text just to somehow make the URL more user friendly or are there some other benefits?