Removing WWW from URL

  • pintsizepilot

    (@pintsizepilot)


    9 years ago

    I have an established site with okay traffic. I am running WordPress 4.3.3.

    In my settings I would like to change my wordpress address and site address from https://www.example.com to https://example.com.

    Are there any ramifications to doing this that I need to think about? If something goes wrong, can I just change it back? (F.Y.I. I fall into the “WordPress for Dummies” category.)

    If it is at all relevant, I recently added a 301 redirect to my .htaccess file to remove the dates from my URLs. That seems to be working fine.

    Thank you in advance.

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  • Matthew

    (@kidsguide)

    You don’t need to change anything in your WordPress website to be able to do that. www is not needed. For example if you go to https://www.www.ads-software.com or www.ads-software.com it will bring you to the same place. This works the exact same for your website.

    Thread Starter pintsizepilot

    (@pintsizepilot)

    The reason I wondered if I needed to do this was because when I run a Pingdom site speed test on: https://example.com, my speed registers consistently as a little slow, and the first two lines it runs through are https://example.com (1.4 sec) followed by https://www.example.com (1.9 sec)….and then a bunch of other stuff.

    If I run a Pingdom speed test on https://www.example.com, it runs through the https://www.example.com, but skips the https://example.com and always seems to run quite fast.

    Is this what should happen? In your opinion, is any action needed on my part?

    Thank you again.

    superusersysadmin

    (@superusersysadmin)

    Hello.

    In order to have your site point from: https://www to https:// you would just use a simple 301 redirect.

    But if your worried about your score on Pingdom, the more redirects you have, the lower your score will be.

    Unless you notice a significant drop in speed, I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Especially if you have a decent score.

    Thank you.

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