Not all protocols are capable of being shortened as of 2011, although protocols such as http, https, ftp, ftps, mailto, mms, rtmp, rtmpt, ed2k, pop, imap, nntp, news, ldap, gopher, dict and dns are being addressed by such services as URL Shortener. The shortest possible long-term URLs were generated by NanoURL from December 2009 until about 2011, associated with the top-level .to (Tonga) domain, in the form , where xxxx represents a sequence of random numbers and letters.[15] On 14 December 2009 Google announced a service called Google URL Shortener at goo.gl, which originally was only available for use through Google products (such as Google Toolbar and FeedBurner) and extensions for Google Chrome.[17] On 21 December 2009, Google introduced a YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be.[18] From September 2010 Google URL Shortener became available via a direct interface. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 359: + Added feature: include title when posting to Twitter/StatusNet Thanks. This is achieved by using a redirect which links to the web page that has a long URL. Some URL shorteners offer a time-limited service, which will expire after a specified period.
When the fallback_lp parameter is appended to your Adjust Tracker URL, Adjust will redirect any clicks made outside of the Safari app to your preferred landing page. A short URL eliminates this problem. • People sometimes guess the domain name of sites they have not visited before; so pick a name that describes your blog, company or brand. 2Planning your tracker structure In this section, we’ll discuss how to plan and organise your sources. The original URL produced a QR code that is too big to fit on the label so we shorten it first. The source parameter is a place to store information about various traffic sources for a tracking link. For example, New York Times uses the shortened address “nyti.ms”.
This is the programmatic side of the web site at goo.gl. Most URL shortening services offer basic analytic data that tracks the total number of clicks, the time of the click and the country or territory location of the person who clicked the link. The tracking link automatically updates with a hashed version of the parameters in the original tracking link. Loading....