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Hi, Back in the days the trailing slash suggested "this is a directory" in contrary to "this is a file". Browsers would react slightly faster – or at least that's what I was told – when they were indirectly told "look for a file called index…". Today that trailing slash is next to obsolete. Today it is considered good practice to either always or never have that trailing slash – otherwise it could be considered duplicate content. But as far as I know neither theory has any impact on SEO. Thanks