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Strip tracking parameters (or all query parameters) from a URL.
https://example.com/page?id=42
Removed: utm_source, utm_medium
This tool strips query parameters from a URL -- either just common tracking parameters (utm_*, fbclid, gclid, etc.) or every parameter, your choice.
Paste a URL and pick a mode. The cleaned URL appears instantly, along with which parameters were removed.
In tracking-only mode the tool removes any parameter whose name starts with utm_, plus these exact names: fbclid, gclid, msclkid, mc_eid and _ga. Everything else is kept. In all-parameters mode, every query parameter is removed, whether it is a tracker or not. The result also lists the names of the parameters that were removed, so you can see exactly what was taken out.
The list is intentionally short. Other tracking parameters exist that are not in it, for example ones added by specific ad networks, social apps or email tools. If you see an unfamiliar parameter left after cleaning, decide by its purpose; you can switch to all-parameters mode, but only if you are sure the page does not need any of them.
Take the hypothetical link https://shop.example.com/item?id=42&color=blue&utm_source=newsletter&fbclid=abc123. In tracking-only mode the tool removes utm_source and fbclid and returns https://shop.example.com/item?id=42&color=blue, listing the two removed names. In all-parameters mode it would also remove id and color, leaving https://shop.example.com/item, which would probably point to a generic page or an error instead of the specific product. That difference is the reason tracking-only is the default.
Besides sharing a tidy link, the tool helps when you want to see a page's clean form for canonical checks, when you are deduplicating a list of URLs that differ only by tracking tags, or when you want to remove identifiers before pasting a link into a public place. Combine it with the Canonical URL Checker to confirm which version a page treats as its main address.
The link is rebuilt through a standard URL parser, so small normalization can happen: a bare domain gets a trailing slash, and the remaining parameters are re-encoded consistently. The scheme, host, path and any fragment after a hash symbol are kept. If the input is not a full URL with a scheme such as https://, the tool reports it as invalid rather than guessing.
Removing parameters does not remove every way a site or sender can identify you; identifiers can also live in the path, a cookie, or on the sender's side. The tool never visits the link, and everything happens in your browser, but you should still be careful about pasting links that contain private tokens.
To share a clean link, to check a page's canonical form, or for privacy when sharing a URL you received from someone else's tracked link.
Usually yes in tracking-only mode, because functional parameters are kept. Test it, especially if the page depends on parameters that were removed.
Only utm_ parameters and a short list of known names are removed in tracking-only mode. Unknown trackers are left in place.
No. The fragment, which usually points to a section of a page, is preserved.
Removing them only affects that sender's campaign attribution, not the page content, so many people do it for privacy when re-sharing.
Reference: Google Search Central