diff --git a/src/URL/Normalizer.php b/src/URL/Normalizer.php
index 930f7b7..7dabf14 100755
--- a/src/URL/Normalizer.php
+++ b/src/URL/Normalizer.php
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ public function setUrl($url)
         // parse URL into respective parts
         $url_components = $this->mbParseUrl($this->url);
 
-        if (! $url_components) {
+        if (count($url_components) === 0) {
             // Reset URL
             $this->url = '';
 
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ private function parseStr($string)
 
     private function mbParseUrl($url)
     {
-        $result = false;
+        $result = [];
 
         // Build arrays of values we need to decode before parsing
         $entities = array('%21', '%2A', '%27', '%28', '%29', '%3B', '%3A', '%40', '%26', '%3D', '%24', '%2C', '%2F', '%3F', '%23', '%5B', '%5D');