How to Link to or Cite an AltFTool Tool

Who this guide is for

Teachers add calculators to lesson pages, bloggers recommend a converter in a tutorial, and developers point readers to a formatter in their documentation. If you want to send your readers to an AltFTool tool, this page shows the cleanest way to do it so the link keeps working and readers know what they will get.

You do not need permission or an account to link to any public AltFTool page.

Copy the right URL

1. 1

   Open the tool page

   Find the tool in the tool library or with the search palette (Ctrl+K, or Cmd+K on Mac). Every tool lives at a stable address under /tools/all/.

2. 2

   Copy the address from the browser bar

   Use the clean URL, for example https://www.altftool.com/tools/all/bmi-calculator. Remove anything after a question mark, such as tracking or search parameters; the URL Tracking Parameter Stripper does this for a list of links at once.

3. 3

   Write descriptive anchor text

   Name what the tool does rather than writing ‘click here’. ‘free BMI calculator’, ‘JSON formatter’ or ‘image compressor on AltFTool’ tell readers and search engines exactly where the link goes.

4. 4

   Paste a simple link

   In most editors you can select the text and paste the URL. If you are writing HTML, a plain anchor element is all you need, as in the example below.

<a href="https://www.altftool.com/tools/all/bmi-calculator">free BMI calculator on AltFTool</a>

Suggested anchor text and citation formats

Good anchor text is short, accurate and reads naturally in your sentence. A few patterns that work well:

• Tool name only: ‘Word & Character Counter’.
• What it does: ‘count words and reading time online’.
• Name plus source: ‘the JSON formatter on AltFTool’.
• For a reference list or worksheet: AltFTool, ‘Percentage Calculator’, https://www.altftool.com/tools/all/percentage-calculator, accessed on the date you used it.

Embed a working tool instead of a link

If you want readers to use a calculator or converter without leaving your page, AltFTool offers free embeddable widgets. Pick a widget, copy the plain iframe, responsive wrapper, WordPress block or URL, and paste it anywhere an iframe works. No account or API key is needed. Keep the small ‘Widget by AltFTool’ credit visible; it is part of the snippet.

Journalists and reviewers can find logo files, boilerplate and facts in the press kit. Developers who want data rather than a page can use the open data endpoints, which ask only for attribution.