Sunday, February 7, 2021

My collection of URL shorteners

 


I have been trying out various url shorteners they are all good, at the moment I like owly the best only because the image of an owl seems to be more memorable that bitdo or bitly.  I can’t see any issue with any of them however.

Reporting Accounts

Owly http://ow.ly/6wkP30htnBl

Bitly http://bit.ly/2ChM5QU

Google https://goo.gl/joJz2x

Bit do http://bit.do/dYSzJ

Twitter :- https://t.co/ixhdMosxZe

LinkedIn https://lnkd.in/es_5-CD

Tiny URL https://tinyurl.com/y87y7jzb

Godaddy http://x.co/6nLMG

There are a few more around also but in this niche there is not a great deal of further innovation that would be useful so I think the niche will stick with pretty much the above players for the time being at least – of course these all get 100 of millions of clicks each day and so on.

There are several reasons to use URL shortening. Often regular unshortened links may be aesthetically unpleasing. Many web developers pass descriptive attributes in the URL to represent data hierarchies, command structures, transaction paths or session information. This can result in URLs that are hundreds of characters long and that contain complex character patterns. Such URLs are difficult to memorize, type out or distribute. As a result, long URLs must be copied and pasted for reliability. Thus, short URLs may be more convenient for websites or hard copy publications (e.g. a printed magazine or a book), the latter often requiring that very long strings be broken into multiple lines

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