Trailing Slash on HP Internal Links?

[TravG]

So I have always linked to my homepage by putting a trailing slash after the url, however when my site appears in a browser it does not have the trailing slash. Have I been doing this wrong all this time? Does it matter? In looking at some other websites, I see in their internal linking they do not link to their HP with a trailing slash so thinking maybe I should not be doing that either.

Now I am linking to my homepage like xxhttps://www.abc.com/ but should I be linking to my homepage like xxhttps://www.abc.com

Thoughts?

Thanks - Travis

[universal4]

It should not matter, but once you decide on which to use, stick with it.

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/20...-to-slash.html
https://searchfacts.com/url-trailing-slash/

I find it interesting that searchfacts recommends redirecting the one not used.

Rick
Universal4

[lukef1tz]

Yep, if your trailing slash version redirects to the non-trailing slash version, then link to the non-trailing (and be consistent with it)

Linking to pages that redirect to another page slows down your server speed and increases the number of requests made by a crawler on your site.