diff --git a/docs/example-colspan.html b/docs/example-colspan.html
index f63da58f..a06a401f 100644
--- a/docs/example-colspan.html
+++ b/docs/example-colspan.html
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ Search:
 			<th>Product ID</th>
 			<th>Numeric</th>
 			<th>Animals</th>
-			<th >Url</th>
+			<th>Url</th>
 		</tr>
 	</thead>
 	<tfoot>
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ Search:
 			<th>Product ID</th>
 			<th>Numeric</th>
 			<th id="test">Animals</th>
-			<th >Url</th>
+			<th>Url</th>
 		</tr>
 	</tfoot>
 	<tbody>
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 793fd850..a4c0fc6e 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 			<tr><td>abc 11</td><td>&#163;3,20</td><td>Chimp</td><td>http://www.ucla.edu/</td></tr>
 			<tr><td>abc 2</td><td>&#163;56,10</td><td>Elephant</td><td>http://www.wikipedia.org/</td></tr>
 			<tr><td>abc 9</td><td>&#163;3,20</td><td>Lion</td><td>http://www.nytimes.com/</td></tr>
-			<tr><td>ABC 10</td><td>&#163;87,00</td><td>Zebra</td><td>http://www.google.com</td></tr>
+			<tr><td>ABC 10</td><td>&#163;87,00</td><td>Zebra</td><td>https://github.com</td></tr>
 			<tr><td>zyx 1</td><td>&#163;99,90</td><td>Koala</td><td>http://www.mit.edu/</td></tr>
 			<tr><td>zyx 12</td><td>&#163;234,10</td><td>Llama</td><td>http://www.nasa.gov/</td></tr>
 		</tbody>
diff --git a/js/jquery.tablesorter.js b/js/jquery.tablesorter.js
index f931a83d..96962d4c 100644
--- a/js/jquery.tablesorter.js
+++ b/js/jquery.tablesorter.js
@@ -2534,8 +2534,8 @@
 
 	// too many protocols to add them all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme
 	// now, this regex can be updated before initialization
-	ts.regex.urlProtocolTest =   /^(https?|ftp|file):\/\//;
-	ts.regex.urlProtocolReplace = /(https?|ftp|file):\/\//;
+	ts.regex.urlProtocolTest = /^(https?|ftp|file):\/\//;
+	ts.regex.urlProtocolReplace = /(https?|ftp|file):\/\/(www\.)?/;
 	ts.addParser({
 		id : 'url',
 		is : function( str ) {
@@ -2544,7 +2544,6 @@
 		format : function( str ) {
 			return str ? $.trim( str.replace( ts.regex.urlProtocolReplace, '' ) ) : str;
 		},
-		parsed : true, // filter widget flag
 		type : 'text'
 	});