The first column in the chart is for “Redirect.” This is because a top issue to me, and many others, is that a URL shortening service does a “301 redirect” to the full URL. You can help make Shortly better by reporting issues or help translating Shortly into your language. Learn more Preferences You can choose your preferred shortener service, decide how to display results, login your accounts, set custom shortener, and change keyboard shortcut — all in the Shortly preference. That’s because there are only so many 3 character combinations that can be used (is.gd has a nice tutorial about this). View complete release notes Developer's notes Shortly would not record any of your personal information. Popover and Quick option menu is only available in Safari 5.1 and higher. Get Shortly extension now →. 3 ways of display Shortly 2.1 comes with a new Popover, a clean Toolbar Mode as default, and still the old-school Alert Window display options of your choice. That number stands for the code a web server issues to a browser (or search engine) when a URL is requested.
As I remember, short urls were necessary at a time, when a lot of urls containing &=+” showed up in blog-comments or other site-content. Login support Login to your Google, bit.ly or bit.ly pro account to enjoy better integration with your shortener service. These weren’t interpreted by the browser, and resulted in broken lines, and thus links. Shortly supports the rel="shortlink" proposal. Please visit its project page for more information on implementing native shortlinks on your site. Custom URL shortener Got your own shortener service? You can now link it to Shortly with the new endpoint support. With clean urls nowadays, better link-interpretation in browsers and e-mail-clients this problem seems solved.