How to Clean Up Your URLs (Remove .html)

Don’t you find URLs ending in “.html” a bit clunky? Like this: https://example.com/contact.html

Instead, wouldn’t you prefer a streamlined https://example.com/contact or https://example.com/contact/?

Here’s how to strip off that “.html” and get those cleaner URLs:

1. Folders Are Your Friends

If you’re not using folders to organize your website, start now.

Instead of:

|--- 📄 index.html
|--- 📄 contact.html
|--- 📄 marketing.html

Do this:

|--- 📄 index.html
|--- 📁 contact
     |--- 📄 index.html
|--- 📁 marketing
     |--- 📄 index.html

That’s it. Now your “contact.html” page is simply accessed at https://example.com/contact

2. Netlify Shortcut

If you use Netlify for hosting, they make this even easier:

Just enable the “Pretty URLs” option in your site’s settings (“post processing”).

Done!

Websites should be functional, and ugly URLs are a bit of unnecessary friction. This simple fix makes your site that little bit more polished.