Google's New Service: Google URL Shortener was originally created to shorten long URLs and make them easier to share. However, it will be fully discontinued on August 25, 2025.

Twitter tests its own URL shortener The microblogging service plans to wrap and abbreviate all links shared on the site in the same way other URL-shortening services such as Bit.ly do.

The tools also provide easier ways to shorten and tweet, without leaving the webpage you’re viewing. Here are my top three picks for URL shortening services that do more than save space. Bit.ly ...

Google announced that they will continue to support some links created by the deprecated goo.gl URL shortening service, saying that 99% of the shortened URLs receive no traffic.

Google had already introduced its own URL shortener in 2009 and replaced it with the current service in 2018, as a result of which the URL shortener goo.gl was switched off and new short URLs ...

goUNG URL Shortener The go.ung.edu URL shortening service allows you to create short URLS for any page within the following domains: ung.edu ungathletics.com unggive.org ungalumni.org ...

Even the best-performing URL shortener, Google's goo.gl, added an average of 0.36 second to page load time, with YouTube's youtu.be next in line with 0.42 second.