Aug 16 update: I ran a more comprehensive analysis with a more complete dataset. Find out the new figures for the average length of a URL

I've always been curious what the average length of a URL is, mostly when approximating memory requirements of storing URLs in RAM.

Well, I did a dump of the DMOZ URLs, sorted and uniq-ed the list of URLs.

Ended up with 4074300 unique URLs weighing in at 139406406 bytes, which approximates to 34 characters per URL.

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