But this human readable section of the URL is primarily useful for reading outside the address bar, before you've loaded the page. Eg. if someone pasted you th

But this human readable section of the URL is primarily useful for reading outside the address bar, before you've loaded the page. Eg. if someone pasted you the URL, you can kind of get an idea of what it's about by reading the URL in your instant messenger or something. Once you've loaded the page and the URL is displayed in your address bar, you'd be looking at the page itself to understand it rather than your address bar.