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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.
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. Bitly makes money by charging for access to aggregate data created as a result of many ...
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.
The Wikimedia URL Shortener is a feature that allows you to create short URLs for any page on projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, in order to reuse them elsewhere, for example on social networks, on wikis, or on paper. The feature can be accessed from Meta-Wiki on the special page m:Special:URLShortener. On this page, you will be able ...
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.
According to Gary Briggs, Google's Vice President of consumer marketing, the .co purchase was to help users of the shortened domain, "always end up at a page for a Google product or service." [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Click tracking is when user click behavior or user navigational behavior is collected in order to derive insights and fingerprint users. [1] [2] Click behavior is commonly tracked using server logs which encompass click paths and clicked URLs (Uniform Resource Locator).
Website monitoring allows interested parties to track the health of a website or web application. A software program can periodically check to see if a website is down, if broken links exist, or if errors have occurred on specific pages. For example, a web developer who hosts and maintains a website for a customer may want to be notified ...