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Written by Chette Soriano   
Saturday, 21 April 2007

Making URLs shorter have become very easy, thanks to services such as TinyURL, RubyURL, and urlTea.

dwarfURL is another one of those services – and more. It has become a personal favorite, mainly because it has the ability to track how many people actually clicked on your link.

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For example, my dwarf URL is this:

http://dwarfurl.com/a8d51

I chose "password" as my password. To view how many people have actually visited this URL, I simply appended my password to the URL. Click on the link below to the click stats:

http://dwarfurl.com/a8d51/password

And of course, it has a quaint Firefox extension. Very handy for us Twitter users.

Dwarf it baby!

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David B. said:

Nice little writeup, glad you liked us!
April 21, 2007 | url

Ash Zone said:

The click stats is a useful feature.

I have a suggestion. Maybe the website of dawrfurl be easily understood like rubyurl and urltea. dwarfurl is better, I think, but it is not as simple as the others. There's too much text.
April 23, 2007

Adrian Buerki said:

Check out http://traceurl.com

Traceurl.com allows you to choose a name (the prefix) for the URL. Thus the generated short URL does not look that cryptic. You can monitor accesses to the URL. Count accesses and have the origin of the visitor displayed on a Google Map.
September 14, 2007 | url

lucy said:

thank you Chette
January 11, 2008 | url

minka said:

good hobby Chette , shorten url too ))
February 13, 2008 | url

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