How+to+read+a+URL

Once you get to a web site, it's important to know its source. Today, creating a web page is easy, so anyone can post anything on the web, and making posted information look "official" isn't too hard, either. For this reason, it's important to know where the information you find on the web is coming from.

You can gather some important information about the source of the website from its address, which is called its "URL." Being able to understand the significance of a page's URL is a core web literacy skill, one that is essential to good research.

How do you read a URL? How do you make sense of the web address for a web page? What can the web address tell you?

What do all the parts of a URL mean? What do they tell me? ([|click here]) and ([|click here])

How can I find out who has authored (and is responsible for) the content of a web page? ([|Click here]) and ([|click here])

Web site to use for looking up the author and owner of a site

Finding out which pages are linked to a web site you're evaluating