{"id":2935,"date":"2013-11-01T16:31:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T16:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2013\/11\/01\/clean-urls\/"},"modified":"2013-11-01T16:31:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T16:31:34","slug":"clean-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/drupal\/clean-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"300: Clean URLs in Drupal 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What are SEF URLs?<\/h2>\n<p>SEF URLs are also known as <em>Search Engine Friendly URLs<\/em>, or <em>Clean URLs<\/em>. Most websites today are not built using pages but rather the pages the visitor sees are built on demand by using a <em>Content Management System<\/em>, or <em>CMS<\/em>, like <a href=\"https:\/\/drupal.org\">Drupal<\/a>. Since the pages are built on the fly by pulling content from a database, the human-friendly URLs are not quite as common, resulting in URLs that appear cryptic and are harder to remember. 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