Pattern 49: Final slash on URLs
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You know that users are sensitive to DOWNLOAD TIME (42) and that every little helps.

How can you speed up downloads from your site and from new sites that the user visits?

Therefore

Always arrange to append the final slash to any URLs that the user types and correct other obvious syntactical errors.

This pattern is terminal within this language.

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You should use something like http://www.daftname.com/
rather than http://www.daftname.com
or www.daftname.com
This will fractionally decrease download time.

Of course, most modern browsers do this automatically, but if you are constructing URLs in an applet or program of some sort then the pattern applies.

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