diff --git a/skimage/io/_plugins/tifffile_plugin.py b/skimage/io/_plugins/tifffile_plugin.py
index a5688bd4..58038db4 100644
--- a/skimage/io/_plugins/tifffile_plugin.py
+++ b/skimage/io/_plugins/tifffile_plugin.py
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     raise ImportError("The tifffile module could not be found.\n"
         "It can be obtained at "
-        "<http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/code/tifffile.py.html>\n")
+        "<http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/code/tifffile.py>\n")