I was having trouble finding the right URL shortening service. My requests for shortening were not too picky. I wanted two simple features:
- Good statistics that are visible only to administrators
- Edit the long URLs after generating shortened links
…but not one service has both features:
- http://sn.im has editable URLs, a bookmarklet, but no stats. Oh, and they kept on deleting my links.
- http://bit.ly has great stats, name recognition, but the links aren’t editable and the stats are public.
- http://goo.gl is the fastest service (so they claim), they have good stats (maybe the best, since they include OS & browser information), but they don’t have editable links or private stats.
Other smaller offerings may have had both features, but they also seem unreliable. I wanted control of my links. Continue reading “YOURLS URL Shortener”
