What does Uniform Resource Locator mean? In the simplest terms, the website is the “resource,” and the URL, acting as the “locator,” helps identify and guide you to the resource.

What does Uniform Resource Locator mean? In the simplest terms, the website is the “resource,” and the URL, acting as the “locator,” helps identify and guide you to the resource.

TinyURL’s job is two-fold: First, it allows people to enter a URL of any length (and some of them can be several hundred characters long) and it returns a URL which is, well, tiny.