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The information may include a login detail, password, date of birth, credit card number, bank account number, and family-related information. To acquire these details, users will be directed to fill out the information on false websites based on information from emails, adverts, text messages, or website pop-ups. Examining the website\u2019s URL address is one method for avoiding this type of deception. Identifying the features of a phishing website URL takes specialized knowledge and investigation. Machine learning is one method that uses existing data to teach machines to distinguish between legal and phishing website URLs. In this work, we proposed a method that combines correlation and recursive feature elimination to determine which URL characteristics are useful for identifying phishing websites by gradually decreasing the number of features while maintaining accuracy value. In this paper, we use two datasets that contain 48 and 87 features. The first scenario combines power predictive score correlation and recursive feature elimination; the second scenario is the maximal information coefficient correlation and recursive feature elimination. The third scenario combines spearman correlation and recursive feature elimination. All three scenarios from the combined findings of the proposed methodologies achieve a high level of accuracy even with the smallest feature subset. 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