Short URL

URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is basically the address to a web page.
Read more on Wikipedia.

Some services allows only a certain amount of text. By using a shorter URL you can write more actual content. A short URL is also useful when sending links via mail, because long URLs might be displayed on multiple rows and thus become broken. It's also easier to send a short URL via SMS instead of having to write the whole long URL.

1. Paste your long URL into the field on the main page, and click "Create"
2. Share the generated URL to others via email/message/post/sms.

See also the information about the bookmarklet and the browser search box for alternative ways of using this service.

Forever as long as they're in accordance with our Terms & Conditions.

Because of abuse this service can now be used only from Finland.

The image, like the one to the right which is a shortcut to this site, is a QR code (Quick Response code). Point your phone's camera (requires software thats supports this) at the image to have the phone navigate to your generated URL. You could place the QR code in a magazine or on a business card.
Read more about QR codes on Wikipedia.

Many modern phones can read QR codes via the camera app.

If you don't already have a decoder preinstalled on your device, please search for one in the app store. Google Lens (for Android and iPhone/iPad) is a useful app that also reads QR codes.

You can't. You will have to accept the randomly generated one.

Basically any URL that doesn't conflict with our Terms & Conditions.

Don't add any personal URLs that you don't want anybody else to see. Keep in mind that everybody can access the short URLs.

Yes. You can shorten URLs of the following protocols: http, https and ftp.

Add /stats to the short URL.

When a URL is shortened we store the users IP address in case of abuse. Every now and then we check inserted links and if a link is accepted according to our terms, we remove the IP address. We don't want to fill our database with them. The IP addresses are never displayed for others or shared with third parties.

We collect amount of clicks and referrers for the short URLs. IP addresses are not stored when a short URL is used. Referrer information is stored for at least 2 weeks.

When you are on a webpage with a long URL, click on the bookmarklet and it will give you the short URL for that page.

Because the link is javascript and does not point to a website with a favicon.

There is a addon for Firefox which allows you to specify favicons even for bookmarklets.

Yes. Read more on the API page.

Yes. You may only add 20 new URLs per day and fetch statistics via API 500 times per day. This might be updated every now and then.

Nothing for you. We pay for hosting etc.

No. This is mostly for our personal use, but others can use it aswell. For free! If you want, please support me with some coffee money to create more useful tools like this one.

Sorry, we don't have those here. You need to find them on some other site.

Yes. Read our Privacy Policy.

Only me, Kenda.

There are a lot of similar services. I wanted to know how they work. When I noticed how easy it is I made my own. The first version was ready in 2008, but I never put it online. In 2009 I branded it for the company I work at. People started using it and I got some feedback. Based on that I built a new and better one. It took a couple of evenings. Writing all these texts took a lot more than it took to build the actual service.