6 Ways to Make URLs Shorter
Author: Mitch Keeler
I hate it when I find a good Web page and the URL is so long and complicated, trying to cut and paste it to send it to a friend is almost impossible. That is where “URL shortening” services play a helpful hand. This way you can turn that long and complicated URL into something you can easily type or remember. There are a slew of choices Online, and here are some of the best of the best.
Out of all of them, I would say DwarfURL is probably my favorite, just because it gives you some statistical information about you links as well.
April 20th, 2007 at 7:56 am
Glad to see we’re your favorite!
April 20th, 2007 at 7:58 am
Hey David, thanks for putting something out there that is a little different. :)
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:32 am
Thanks for the write-up Mitch. I had only previously used tinyurl a few times, but I like the idea that with dwarfurl you can see the stats on the link
April 27th, 2007 at 2:59 am
one of those urlchop sites posted a page that included a comparison chart for ~~10 urlcompacting sites. i think the comparison is considered a niche classic, but i doubt it’s been updated.
it’s amazing how many characteristics there can be.
btw, i usually prefer the original url, because i can see where I’m going. (of course you could put that real url into a “tooltip” (a href title attrib). Also if the url is a google search or (archived) ng msg, you can manually cut off much of the urlbloat.
September 1st, 2007 at 7:13 am
Well i have use shorter urls for a long time when this domain came up i thought ill make one of my own well so far it all up and working but i will add more features as time goes buy i dont expect to come close to the list you did but i hope my site be usefull to people.