000+00:00", "analytics": { "allTime": { "shortUrlClicks": "3227", "longUrlClicks": "9358", "referrers": [ { "count": "2160", "id": "Unknown/empty" } /* , ... */ ], "countries": [ { "count": "1022", "id": "US" } /* , ... */ ], "browsers": [ { "count": "1025", "id": "Firefox" } /* , ... */ ], "platforms": [ { "count": "2278", "id": "Windows" } /* , ... */ ] }, "month": { /* ... */ }, "week": { /* ... */ }, "day": { /* ... */ }, "twoHours": { /* ... */ } } } created is the time at which this short URL was created. If you go to that website, there is an edit box near the top of the page where you can paste in a longer URL for a web page, such as , and then click on the Shorten button.
For example, if you want to know how many people click on the website link in your Twitter profile, lots of people use a bit.ly link instead of the direct link to their website. It is a legitimate concern that many existing URL shortening services may not have a sustainable business model in the long term.[12] In late 2009, the Internet Archive started the "301 Works" projects,[25] together with twenty collaborating companies (initially), whose short URLs will be preserved by the project.[12] The URL shortening service ur1.ca provides its entire database as a file download, so if its website stops working, other websites may be able to provide ways to correct broken links to URLs shortened with its service. For example: Unsupported content with type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Such error messages may not be in JSON format (depending on the provided content type).Own Your Short Links on Twitter bit.ly offers URL shortening and link tracking services. Set your domain Log in to the application () using your GoDaddy login information.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 11 May 2011 More Statistics for Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Thanks. This point was underscored a few days ago when a popular one, tr.im, announced they were going to shut down at the end of the year. I’ll use jQuery 1.x for this example since most sites use it but you can substitute a lightweight option such as min.js, Zepto.js, Minified.js or your own event handling functions.
Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link. For example, if you are passing a sub ID on click, you can append the parameter directly to the end of the encrypted URL: When generating tiny URLs, it may take several minutes for the shortened URL to become active. Copy and paste the URL you create into your web browser's address bar, then press enter. These are all exposed in the
using rel=shortlink.But if you do a search on terms such as “creating custom short urls”, you can find many articles that go into details of how to do this. Twitter even lets you schedule Tweets now ... sort of. The associated shorthand link and URL are logged in a registry database. You may also want to consider joining 301works, a free service from the Internet Archive that works to create a database of all shortened URL mappings. You can also get a visual glimpse of your engagement for a different perspective. With our unique CTID, you are much less dependent on cookies, and have more reliable data. We’ll want to know: Where users are going How often they’re clicking What pages they’re clicking from The anchor text they’re clicking on From the data we can take action by: Pruning unclicked links Create new content in the vein of the highly clicked links Update the current article to provide additional clarity Using GTM for Event Tracking While you can use jQuery to track the click events, we’ll be using Google Tag Manager because the auto-event tracking feature makes it a fairly simple implementation and future tweaks won’t require engineering cycles or production pushes. Create a single responsive short link to direct readers and split into two targets based on their operating system (e.g. Redirects A short URL is not a web page on its own. Link shortening service vb.ly was shut down back in 2010 by Libya, which leads to the problematic fact of link shortening: you depend upon a third-party service to deliver visitors through your shortened links.