diff --git a/instrumentation/benchmarks/src/main/java/brave/jersey/server/FakeExtendedUriInfo.java b/instrumentation/benchmarks/src/main/java/brave/jersey/server/FakeExtendedUriInfo.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0b0603c725
--- /dev/null
+++ b/instrumentation/benchmarks/src/main/java/brave/jersey/server/FakeExtendedUriInfo.java
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+package brave.jersey.server;
+
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.regex.MatchResult;
+import javax.ws.rs.core.MultivaluedMap;
+import javax.ws.rs.core.PathSegment;
+import javax.ws.rs.core.UriBuilder;
+import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ExtendedUriInfo;
+import org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.Resource;
+import org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethod;
+import org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.RuntimeResource;
+import org.glassfish.jersey.uri.UriTemplate;
+
+class FakeExtendedUriInfo implements ExtendedUriInfo {
+  final URI baseURI;
+  final List<UriTemplate> matchedTemplates;
+
+  FakeExtendedUriInfo(URI baseURI, List<UriTemplate> matchedTemplates) {
+    this.baseURI = baseURI;
+    this.matchedTemplates = matchedTemplates;
+  }
+
+  @Override public Throwable getMappedThrowable() {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public List<MatchResult> getMatchedResults() {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public List<UriTemplate> getMatchedTemplates() {
+    return matchedTemplates;
+  }
+
+  @Override public List<PathSegment> getPathSegments(String name) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public List<PathSegment> getPathSegments(String name, boolean decode) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public List<RuntimeResource> getMatchedRuntimeResources() {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public ResourceMethod getMatchedResourceMethod() {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public Resource getMatchedModelResource() {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public List<ResourceMethod> getMatchedResourceLocators() {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public List<Resource> getLocatorSubResources() {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public String getPath() {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public String getPath(boolean decode) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public List<PathSegment> getPathSegments() {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public List<PathSegment> getPathSegments(boolean decode) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public URI getRequestUri() {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public UriBuilder getRequestUriBuilder() {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public URI getAbsolutePath() {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public UriBuilder getAbsolutePathBuilder() {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public URI getBaseUri() {
+    return baseURI;
+  }
+
+  @Override public UriBuilder getBaseUriBuilder() {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public MultivaluedMap<String, String> getPathParameters() {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public MultivaluedMap<String, String> getPathParameters(boolean decode) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public MultivaluedMap<String, String> getQueryParameters() {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public MultivaluedMap<String, String> getQueryParameters(boolean decode) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public List<String> getMatchedURIs() {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public List<String> getMatchedURIs(boolean decode) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public List<Object> getMatchedResources() {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public URI resolve(URI uri) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  @Override public URI relativize(URI uri) {
+    return null;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/instrumentation/benchmarks/src/main/java/brave/jersey/server/TracingApplicationEventListenerAdapterBenchmarks.java b/instrumentation/benchmarks/src/main/java/brave/jersey/server/TracingApplicationEventListenerAdapterBenchmarks.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..520a437b1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/instrumentation/benchmarks/src/main/java/brave/jersey/server/TracingApplicationEventListenerAdapterBenchmarks.java
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright 2015-2016 The OpenZipkin Authors
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
+ * in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License
+ * is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express
+ * or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
+ * the License.
+ */
+package brave.jersey.server;
+
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import org.glassfish.jersey.internal.MapPropertiesDelegate;
+import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ContainerRequest;
+import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ContainerResponse;
+import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ExtendedUriInfo;
+import org.glassfish.jersey.uri.PathTemplate;
+import org.jboss.resteasy.core.ServerResponse;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Benchmark;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.BenchmarkMode;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Fork;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Measurement;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Mode;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.OutputTimeUnit;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Scope;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.State;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Warmup;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.runner.Runner;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.runner.RunnerException;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.runner.options.Options;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.runner.options.OptionsBuilder;
+
+@Measurement(iterations = 5, time = 1)
+@Warmup(iterations = 10, time = 1)
+@Fork(3)
+@BenchmarkMode(Mode.Throughput)
+@OutputTimeUnit(TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS)
+@State(Scope.Thread)
+public class TracingApplicationEventListenerAdapterBenchmarks {
+  FakeExtendedUriInfo uriInfo = new FakeExtendedUriInfo(URI.create("/"),
+      Arrays.asList(
+          new PathTemplate("/"),
+          new PathTemplate("/items/{itemId}"),
+          new PathTemplate("/"),
+          new PathTemplate("/nested")
+      )
+  );
+  ContainerResponse response = new ContainerResponse(
+      new ContainerRequest(
+          URI.create("/"), null, null, null, new MapPropertiesDelegate()
+      ) {
+        @Override public ExtendedUriInfo getUriInfo() {
+          return uriInfo;
+        }
+      }, new ServerResponse());
+
+  TracingApplicationEventListener.Adapter adapter = new TracingApplicationEventListener.Adapter();
+
+  @Benchmark public String parseRoute() {
+    return adapter.route(response);
+  }
+
+  // Convenience main entry-point
+  public static void main(String[] args) throws RunnerException {
+    Options opt = new OptionsBuilder()
+        .include(".*" + TracingApplicationEventListenerAdapterBenchmarks.class.getSimpleName())
+        .build();
+
+    new Runner(opt).run();
+  }
+}
diff --git a/instrumentation/http-tests/src/main/java/brave/http/ITHttpServer.java b/instrumentation/http-tests/src/main/java/brave/http/ITHttpServer.java
index 3c632ec54a..26d53ee7e4 100644
--- a/instrumentation/http-tests/src/main/java/brave/http/ITHttpServer.java
+++ b/instrumentation/http-tests/src/main/java/brave/http/ITHttpServer.java
@@ -264,7 +264,9 @@ private void routeRequestsMatchPrefix(String prefix) throws Exception {
     Set<String> routes = new LinkedHashSet<>(Arrays.asList(span1.name(), span2.name()));
     assertThat(routes).hasSize(1);
     assertThat(routes.iterator().next())
-        .startsWith(prefix);
+        .startsWith(prefix)
+        .doesNotEndWith("/") // no trailing slashes
+        .doesNotContain("//"); // no duplicate slashes
   }
 
   final HttpServerParser nameIsRoutePlusUrl = new HttpServerParser() {
diff --git a/instrumentation/jersey-server/src/main/java/brave/jersey/server/TracingApplicationEventListener.java b/instrumentation/jersey-server/src/main/java/brave/jersey/server/TracingApplicationEventListener.java
index af0a13882d..1c3cac882b 100644
--- a/instrumentation/jersey-server/src/main/java/brave/jersey/server/TracingApplicationEventListener.java
+++ b/instrumentation/jersey-server/src/main/java/brave/jersey/server/TracingApplicationEventListener.java
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 import brave.http.HttpTracing;
 import brave.propagation.Propagation.Getter;
 import brave.propagation.TraceContext;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
 import javax.inject.Inject;
 import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider;
@@ -80,19 +78,32 @@ static final class Adapter extends HttpServerAdapter<ContainerRequest, Container
       return request.getHeaderString(name);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * This returns the matched template as defined by a base URL and path expressions.
+     *
+     * <p>Matched templates are pairs of (resource path, method path). This code skips redundant
+     * slashes from either source caused by Path("/") or implicitly by Path("").
+     */
     @Override public String route(ContainerResponse response) {
-      final ExtendedUriInfo uriInfo = response.getRequestContext().getUriInfo();
-      if (uriInfo.getMatchedTemplates().isEmpty()) return "";
-      final List<UriTemplate> matchedTemplates = new ArrayList<>(uriInfo.getMatchedTemplates());
-      if (matchedTemplates.size() > 1) {
-        Collections.reverse(matchedTemplates);
+      ExtendedUriInfo uriInfo = response.getRequestContext().getUriInfo();
+      List<UriTemplate> templates = uriInfo.getMatchedTemplates();
+      int templateCount = templates.size();
+      if (templateCount == 0) return "";
+      StringBuilder builder = null; // don't allocate unless you need it!
+      String basePath = uriInfo.getBaseUri().getPath();
+      if (!"/".equals(basePath)) { // skip empty base paths
+        builder = new StringBuilder(basePath);
       }
-      final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
-      sb.append(uriInfo.getBaseUri().getPath());
-      for (UriTemplate uriTemplate : matchedTemplates) {
-        sb.append(uriTemplate.getTemplate());
+      for (int i = templateCount - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+        String template = templates.get(i).getTemplate();
+        if ("/".equals(template)) continue; // skip allocation
+        if (builder == null) {
+          builder = new StringBuilder(template);
+        } else {
+          builder.append(template);
+        }
       }
-      return sb.toString().replaceAll("//+", "/");
+      return builder != null ? builder.toString() : "";
     }
 
     @Override public Integer statusCode(ContainerResponse response) {
diff --git a/instrumentation/jersey-server/src/test/java/brave/jersey/server/TracingApplicationEventListenerAdapterTest.java b/instrumentation/jersey-server/src/test/java/brave/jersey/server/TracingApplicationEventListenerAdapterTest.java
index 2a9f6a52a0..0448c02d17 100644
--- a/instrumentation/jersey-server/src/test/java/brave/jersey/server/TracingApplicationEventListenerAdapterTest.java
+++ b/instrumentation/jersey-server/src/test/java/brave/jersey/server/TracingApplicationEventListenerAdapterTest.java
@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
 
 import brave.jersey.server.TracingApplicationEventListener.Adapter;
 import java.net.URI;
+import java.util.Arrays;
 import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ContainerRequest;
+import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ContainerResponse;
 import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ExtendedUriInfo;
+import org.glassfish.jersey.uri.PathTemplate;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
 import org.mockito.Mock;
@@ -17,6 +20,7 @@
 public class TracingApplicationEventListenerAdapterTest {
   Adapter adapter = new Adapter();
   @Mock ContainerRequest request;
+  @Mock ContainerResponse response;
 
   @Test public void path_prefixesSlashWhenMissing() {
     when(request.getPath(false)).thenReturn("bar");
@@ -25,6 +29,50 @@ public class TracingApplicationEventListenerAdapterTest {
         .isEqualTo("/bar");
   }
 
+  @Test public void route() {
+    when(response.getRequestContext()).thenReturn(request);
+    ExtendedUriInfo uriInfo = mock(ExtendedUriInfo.class);
+    when(request.getUriInfo()).thenReturn(uriInfo);
+    when(uriInfo.getBaseUri()).thenReturn(URI.create("/"));
+    when(uriInfo.getMatchedTemplates()).thenReturn(Arrays.asList(
+        new PathTemplate("/"),
+        new PathTemplate("/items/{itemId}")
+    ));
+
+    assertThat(adapter.route(response))
+        .isEqualTo("/items/{itemId}");
+  }
+
+  @Test public void route_basePath() {
+    when(response.getRequestContext()).thenReturn(request);
+    ExtendedUriInfo uriInfo = mock(ExtendedUriInfo.class);
+    when(request.getUriInfo()).thenReturn(uriInfo);
+    when(uriInfo.getBaseUri()).thenReturn(URI.create("/base"));
+    when(uriInfo.getMatchedTemplates()).thenReturn(Arrays.asList(
+        new PathTemplate("/"),
+        new PathTemplate("/items/{itemId}")
+    ));
+
+    assertThat(adapter.route(response))
+        .isEqualTo("/base/items/{itemId}");
+  }
+
+  @Test public void route_nested() {
+    when(response.getRequestContext()).thenReturn(request);
+    ExtendedUriInfo uriInfo = mock(ExtendedUriInfo.class);
+    when(request.getUriInfo()).thenReturn(uriInfo);
+    when(uriInfo.getBaseUri()).thenReturn(URI.create("/"));
+    when(uriInfo.getMatchedTemplates()).thenReturn(Arrays.asList(
+        new PathTemplate("/"),
+        new PathTemplate("/items/{itemId}"),
+        new PathTemplate("/"),
+        new PathTemplate("/nested")
+    ));
+
+    assertThat(adapter.route(response))
+        .isEqualTo("/nested/items/{itemId}");
+  }
+
   @Test public void url_derivedFromExtendedUriInfo() {
     ExtendedUriInfo uriInfo = mock(ExtendedUriInfo.class);
     when(request.getUriInfo()).thenReturn(uriInfo);