Should You Have a Trailing Slash at the End of URLs? [Answered]

Whether to have the trailing slashes at the end of URLs is a tricky question for many. Ahrefs’ Patrick Stox has answered this question in a detailed manner. He says, “A trailing slash is a forward slash (“/”) placed at the end of a URL such as domain.com/ or domain.com/page/. The trailing slash is generally used to distinguish a directory which has the trailing slash from a file that does not have the trailing slash. However, these are guidelines and not requirements. In the past, a folder would have a trailing slash and a file would be without the trailing slash. A folder would... [...]