What Does %20 Mean in a URL? Percent-Encoding Explained Simply
%20 in a URL means a space. URLs can't contain raw spaces, so browsers and servers replace each space with a percent sign followed by 20, the hexadecimal code for the space character.
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%20 in a URL means a space. URLs can't contain raw spaces, so browsers and servers replace each space with a percent sign followed by 20, the hexadecimal code for the space character.
A UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) is a 128-bit value used to label records, files, sessions and API objects so they stay distinct across machines without a central ID server.
To resize an image for the web, set the display dimensions you need (for example 1200×630 for Open Graph social cards), export at 1× or 2× that size, compress with a modern format such as WebP, and never upscale a small photo to invent detail.
Base64 encoding turns any sequence of bytes into a safe string of ASCII characters using a 64-symbol alphabet, with = used as padding when the input length is not a multiple of three.
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