diff --git a/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/sideload/dirtree/DirtreeSideloader.java b/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/sideload/dirtree/DirtreeSideloader.java
index a62bbc378..9964c8fab 100644
--- a/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/sideload/dirtree/DirtreeSideloader.java
+++ b/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/sideload/dirtree/DirtreeSideloader.java
@@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ private ProcessedDocument process(Path path) {
         String body = Files.readString(path);
         String url = urlBase + dirBase.relativize(path);
 
+        // We trim "/index.html"-suffixes from the index if they are present,
+        // since this is typically an artifact from document retrieval
+        if (url.endsWith("/index.html")) {
+            url = url.substring(0, url.length() - "index.html".length());
+        }
+
         return sideloaderProcessing
                 .processDocument(url, body, extraKeywords, 10_000);
     }