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Assmira Lahcen
Assmira Lahcen

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Is URLdn Better Than Bitly for a Short Link?

I've been using Bitly for years. It does the job — short links, custom domains, basic click tracking. Fine.
But I kept running into the same wall: I'd share a link for a campaign, get a click count, and then… nothing. No real insight. Just a number.
A few weeks ago I came across urldn.com and honestly I wasn't expecting much. Another shortener. Cool.
Then I saw the chat feature.

Wait — you can chat with your link data?
Yeah. Instead of digging through dashboards you just ask it things:
"Which link performed best this week?"
"What's my top traffic source?"
"Compare my last two campaigns"
"Which links are underperforming?"
Plain English. Real answers. No CSV exports, no spreadsheet gymnastics.
For someone who shares a lot of links across different campaigns and channels this is genuinely useful. I stopped guessing and started actually understanding what was working.

The analytics are actually deep
This isn't just click counts dressed up as analytics. You get:

Click volume over time
Geographic breakdown
Device + browser split
Referrer tracking
Campaign attribution

Stuff that usually lives behind an expensive marketing tool.

Full breakdown here if you're on the fence →

The browser extension is a nice touch too
Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Right-click or toolbar — shorten any URL in two clicks without switching tabs. Small thing but you notice it when it's gone.

Not affiliated, just genuinely surprised by this one. If you share links at any volume and want to actually understand the data behind them — worth trying.
Anyone else using this? Curious what questions you're asking it.

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