Comments on: URL shortener speed and reliability shootout

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:46:59 +0000

http://Bu.tt is the only URL shortener I use – it gets attention in blog posts and works great!

By: Jayce Nugent

Jayce Nugent — Wed, 05 May 2010 18:32:40 +0000

Well..

Right i still using my own URL shortener : http://www.uang.in. But, in the future, maybe you can add the URL shortener own by Google at goo.gl

By: Francois Botha

Francois Botha — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:11:51 +0000

You should also compare URL support. Not all URL shorteners support ftp:// links. To me, that’s important.

u.nu is also another great shortener.

By: Andy Matthews

Andy Matthews — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:53:08 +0000

About a year ago I released a ColdFusion wrapper for URL services, called shrinkURL:
http://www.andymatthews.net/code/shrinkurl/
It currently supports: Adjix, BitLy, BudURL, ChilpIt, Cligs, Digg, EasyURL, FNaweso.me, Hexio, HREFin, Idek, IsGD, Lincr, Linkm.in, MooURL, PeaURL, PiURL, PntMe, POPrl, ShortIE, ShortTo, Snurl, TinyURL, Trakz, Trim, Twurl, URLZen, W3t, Zima

At the same time I released an AIR application which tied into that wrapper allowing users to select the service of their choice and shrink it right from the app. It copies the URL straight to the clipboard, has a history panel to review the last 10 URLs shortened, and will soon have the option of storing login credentials for those services which offer that option.
http://www.andymatthews.net/code/Shrinkadoo/

By: Nix

Nix — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:27:30 +0000

I miss 3.ly from the list – the shortest url-shortener of them all.

By: JJ Jiles

JJ Jiles — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:39:03 +0000

I’ve recently thrown my hat in the ring with http://tnyb.it. I’ve added stats along with ranking, tagging, trends and XML feeds.

The goal is to be a URL shortening service and a social bookmarking service as well. Please give it a try. It’s free and no cost. Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

By: Chris the Developer

Chris the Developer — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:33:29 +0000

For those of you PHP developers out there; I have started a PHP5 wrapper for Bit.ly and Tinyurl: http://github.com/sixtyseconds/Shortener

Feel free to fork and contribute others.

By: exile

exile — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:12:11 +0000

I found very useful url shortener with very detailed statistics (GEO, google maps etc.) http://smal.ly

By: wsx

wsx — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:28:57 +0000

@matt ril
Do you not know how a database w/ indexing works? clearly not, since in your scenario tinyurl, snip and bit would be all on the losing end. I dont know of any Db services that search for a key with a linear search, but keep on defending your Is.gd friends to the death . . . .

By: HD

HD — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:10:16 +0000

Now Twitter is adding his own tracking system, so before going to the short url, the link pass through something like http://twitter.com/link_click_count . This increases a lot the overhead. In my country (Peru) with a very decent connection I see 1 second of time overhead to the original link.
I made my own calculations using Hammerhead tool from Steve Souders but it will be very nice if you can offer your own results.

My results: http://serlibre.info/articles/40/experimentando-con-twitter-y-los-acortadores-de-url-s (in Spanish)