URL Shortener Shorten Long URI

When we share in social networks a link to a content of our blog or website, we are usually concerned about two things: that the link does not occupy too many characters (especially on Twitter).

Shorten long URLs easily using the services is.gd,cutt.ly, TinyURL to share them easily through social media such as twitter or facebook using our URL shortener. Shortening your URLs will also make the links look sleek and clean. Sometimes it's the shorter things that we prefer.

A URL shortener is a type of software service that allows you to use short URLs that redirect to the original URL. The origin of this type of service is to make the URL more manageable and easy to share and remember.

It is mainly used to shorten deep links which, by their nature, are usually long.

What is a URL shortener?

It is a tool that randomly assigns a set of numbers and characters to the URL you enter, considerably reducing its original length.

What do we use URL shorteners for?

Depending on the tool we use, we can:

Obtain link click metrics: volume, geographic origin, most active users...

Save characters in our social network publications: avoiding sharing links that aesthetically occupy several lines of text and also gaining space in publications with character limits (such as Twitter).

Customize the URL: replacing the random letters and numbers generated by the tool in question with a call to action, or a keyword describing the content of the link.

Schedule the updates in social networks from the tools themselves to shorten.

Characteristics of the URL shortener:

- Easily shorten URLs without the need for an account.

- Share short links with one touch

- Generate QR codes for each short URL

- Easy one-click copy