What is a URL- is it a website address?
URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator, and you can think of it as a website “address”, as it gives your web browser information about the location of the website you want to find. The first part of the URL is the protocol, which tells the web browser what sort of server it will be ‘talking to’ in order to retrieve the website. For most websites, the protocol is likely to be http. For many websites, the next part of the URL will be ‘www’, which tells the browser that it is looking for a location on the World Wide Web. The next part of the URL will be the domain name, which should include the type of site (‘gov’ is a government site) and also include the country code (‘au’ is the code for Australia). So the URL gives your browser a website ‘address’ that allows it to locate the website.
