---
title: "WWW vs non-WWW: Which is Better for SEO?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/www-vs-non-www-which-is-better-for-seo--ikrz0fsnu
source_url: https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/wordpress/www-vs-non-www-for-seo
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2022-09-03T08:57:41.853Z
updated: 2023-12-07T12:02:45.284Z
tags: ["wordpress", "seo", "browsers"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 21
comments: 4
language: en
---

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# WWW vs non-WWW: Which is Better for SEO?

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 8 min read · 21 upvotes · 4 comments

## Summary

For most of the history of the internet, most websites used a “www” prefix followed by a domain name. The WWW prefix is used to help identify a web address or location. Modern browsers are starting to hide the www part of websites in the search bar. This means fewer redirects occur when using non-www URLs for sites with plenty of direct traffic.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@dailydevtips** · 5 upvotes

> TLDR: Doesn't matter non-www is easier, but whatever you pick be consistent with that choice. 💖

**@qorbani** · 2 upvotes

> Point on Cookies is the one lots of people take it for granted!!
>
> Pushing all marketing cookies into your domain level will make issues for other subdomains, especially when you separate static assets into separate subdomain, it make a big difference in performance of loading your assets from sub-domain due to overhead of cookies on HTTP calls!
>
> Having a WWW subdomain is kind of base requirement to have proper cookie-less subdomains for fast static assets on CDN, unless using different domain for static which kind of hurt your image and video SEO!
>
> In my personal opinion for SEO,...

**@alpbeyazgul** · 1 upvotes

> I think the use of www adds much more quality (personal opinion) :)
>
> Note: It is known that it has no effect on SEO.

**@seohobbyexpert** · 0 upvotes

> non-WWW is Better for SEO and SERP

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