Clean Slug Generator
Turn any title into a clean, accent-free, SEO-friendly URL slug instantly.
Generate Clean, SEO-Friendly URL Slugs From Any Title
A slug is the human-readable part of a URL that identifies a page — the clean-url-slug-generator at the end of an address. Good slugs are short, lowercase, hyphen-separated and made of real words, because they are shown in search results, shared in messages and used as anchor text when other people link to you.
This generator normalises accented characters to their ASCII equivalents, strips punctuation and emoji, collapses whitespace into single hyphens and lowercases the result. Optionally remove English stop words to tighten a long headline into something compact enough to read at a glance in a SERP.
Key features
- Accent folding — café becomes cafe, Müller becomes muller, via Unicode NFD normalisation.
- Stop-word removal — optionally drop a, an, the, of, in and similar filler words.
- Configurable separator — hyphens by default, underscores if your platform requires them.
- Length guidance — a live character count with a warning when the slug grows past a comfortable length.
This tool runs entirely inside your browser using native Web APIs. Your files and text are never uploaded to a server, never logged and never shared with third parties.
How to use: Clean Slug Generator
- Enter your title
Paste the page title or headline exactly as it will appear on the page. - Choose your options
Decide whether to strip stop words, and pick hyphen or underscore as the word separator. - Review the slug
The result updates as you type. Aim for three to five meaningful words under about 60 characters. - Copy it into your CMS
Click Copy and paste the slug into the permalink field of your content management system.
Technical specifications
| Processing location | Entirely in your browser — no server round trip |
|---|---|
| Data uploaded | None. Files and text never leave your device |
| Price | Free — no account, no trial, no usage cap |
| Category | Text |
| Works offline | Yes, once the page has loaded |
| Browser support | Chrome 90+, Edge 90+, Firefox 90+, Safari 15+ |
| Interface languages | English, 中文, हिन्दी, Español, العربية |
Frequently asked questions
How long should a URL slug be?
Three to five words, typically under 60 characters. Shorter slugs are easier to read, share and remember, and they display in full in search results rather than being truncated.
Should I use hyphens or underscores?
Hyphens. Google has stated explicitly that it treats hyphens as word separators and underscores as word joiners, so "clean-url-slug" is read as three words while "clean_url_slug" is read as one.
Do I need to remove stop words?
It is optional and mildly helpful for keeping slugs short. Do not remove them if doing so makes the slug read awkwardly — clarity for humans matters more than the marginal length saving.
Can a slug contain non-English characters?
Technically yes, via percent-encoding, but the encoded form becomes unreadable when copied. For international sites, transliterating to ASCII generally produces more shareable, more robust URLs.