Shorten URL and check stats at bit.ly URL shortening service

Bit.ly URL shortening service with Stats feature

Submitted by Chetan on Wednesday, 9 July 20087 Comments

This is not a paid review, just sharing it as i loved it when i used it.

You might be knowing many URL shortening services like tinyurl, ezurl, myurl, shurl etc. but most of them would not be showing stats of number of clicks etc. And most of them except tinyurl, would not allow you to make custom extensions to the short URL.

But i came across bit.ly through a tweet of one of my friends, i just loved the simplicity there.
First of all, its a very small domain name, bit.ly and then, it allows users to create custom URLs there for any long URL.
The screenshots below would explain more about it. It also provides the thumbnail of the URL which is being shortened, the number of clicks produced, and a mirrored URL for backup.

bit.ly url
bit.ly stats

7 Comments »

David Hobson said:

Nice review chetan i am going to give this website a try.

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- 9 July 2008 at 4:13 pm

Chetan (author) said:

Am sure you would like it

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- 9 July 2008 at 4:23 pm

Varun said:

Nice find there chetan, unlike the tinyurl website here we can include our own keyword and simultaneously shorten our url…
Surely have to give it a try.

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- 3 October 2008 at 10:21 am

Chetan (author) said:

@Varun - Tinyurl also has lately given the option of adding your own desired word behind the domain name. Please do check that

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- 3 October 2008 at 10:25 am

BM said:

I wonder how these URL shortening website, makes money?

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- 3 October 2008 at 11:42 am

Amar said:

Thanks chetan for this.. I will try this in a day or two

@bm - Well, i think they make money by advertisement

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- 7 October 2008 at 9:29 am

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- 9 December 2008 at 2:57 am