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Google's URL shortener, Goo.gl, gets a website, real-time analytics, API coming soon
The site itself is plain, like most of Google's offerings, but the real-time analytics page is nothing short of fantastic. You can break traffic down by hours, days, weeks, months and all time, and see the total number of clicks, and from which referrers. At the bottom you can see the "visitor profiles," which shows you a breakdown of countries, browsers, and operating systems.
I'm not an avid user of URL shorteners (I hate the obfuscation), and I really don't know how each URL shortener compares, but I can say that Goo.gl is incredibly fast. Google also says the service is very stable (almost 100% uptime) and secure (all links are checked for malware, spam and phishing attacks).
As for Goo.gl's inclusion in Twitter clients and the like, an API is coming -- but Google doesn't say when.
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsbkj216Oct 1st 2010 8:01AM
Really...you would put "that" website up in your screenshot?
bkj216Oct 1st 2010 8:02AM
And oh for a more legit comment...
I'll prolly use the service or anything else because its integrated into my Google account already (making it easy to link thing together), and it makes QR codes automatically for you
JoeOct 1st 2010 10:09AM
Remove that image from the article immediately ... show a shred of decency and responsibility considering there may be kids reading this.
Sebastian AnthonyOct 1st 2010 10:10AM
The link is safe! It hasn't had THAT image on it for quite a few years now, I think.
MattOct 1st 2010 12:06PM
No one needs to get all huff and puff over goat.se, it's no longer an inappropriate image.
ChristianOct 1st 2010 12:42PM
LOL, even if it's safe or not, I'm pretty sure everyone online knows what that is that they won't go there. Glad it's safe now but still I'm sure we're pretty educated to know what that is!
NyaROct 1st 2010 2:27PM
GIS: hello.jpg
MarcusOct 1st 2010 4:15PM
We can use this api until there :)
http://goo.gl/eEQt
RussOct 1st 2010 10:31PM
No no, just use this;
http://goo.gl/cYfN
Sebastian AnthonyOct 2nd 2010 4:49AM
I giggled...
tracker1Oct 2nd 2010 1:17PM
Not sure.. .bit.ly has the usage charting, as well as will allow for custom short-names (as available), and will post to my twitter account(s).
studio.dsfOct 4th 2010 2:25AM
Thanks for keeping us posted. Sounds like good news for all of us ;-)
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