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Bitly is a URL shortening service and a link management platform. The company Bitly, Inc. was established in 2008. It is privately held and based in New York City. Bitly shortens 600 million links per month, [4] for use in social networking, SMS, and email.
Google URL Shortener, also known as goo.gl, is a URL shortening service owned by Google. It was launched in December 2009, initially used for Google Toolbar and Feedburner . [ 2 ] The company launched a separate website, goo.gl, in September 2010.
TinyURL is a URL shortening web service, which provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service in January 2002 [1] as a way to post links in newsgroup postings which frequently had long, cumbersome addresses.
In November 2009, the shortened links of the URL shortening service Bitly were accessed 2.1 billion times. [1] Other uses of URL shortening are to "beautify" a link, track clicks, or disguise the underlying address. This is because the URL shortener can redirect to just about any web domain, even malicious ones.
UTM parameters in a URL identify the marketing campaign that refers traffic to a specific website. [1] To define and append the relevant UTM parameters to the appropriate URLs, marketers routinely use simple, spreadsheet-based, or automated UTM builder tools, [3] including the Google Analytics URL Builder for websites. [4]
Only links shorter than 2,000 characters can be shortened. In order to avoid abuse of the tool, there is a rate limit: Logged-in users can create up to 50 links every 2 minutes. IPs are limited to 10 creations per 2 minutes.
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
Matomo, [2] formerly Piwik (pronounced / ˈ p iː w iː k /), is the most common free and open source web analytics application to track online visits to one or more websites and display reports on these visits for analysis.