Compress a Link
Enter a URL in the form below to compress, or shorten it, into a more manageable gzURL link.
Add gzURL To Your Browser's Toolbar
To create gzURLs at the click of a button, make sure your web browser's links toolbar is visible and drag the following link into your links toolbar.
Make gzURL
This is compatible with web browsers that allow javascript in bookmarks or favorites. However, some web browsers—like the latest version if Internet Explorer—may require you to right-click on the link and accept a security warning to add it to your favorites.
Why Would I Compress a Link?
In the immortal words of Gil Grissom:
So many reasons.
Really. We come across incredibly long web site URLs—also known as links, favorites, shortcuts, whatever—all too often. Shortening URLs with gzURL allows you to:
- Make long links to things like maps and product pages easier to paste or type into email
- Make links easier to remember and pass on during discussions or podcasts
- Hide your email address on web pages (by shortening links like: mailto:user@mysite.com)
- Hide affiliate URLs from your site's visitors
- And much, much more...
Why Another URL Shortening Site?
This one's a bit different. One problem with some of the other sites is that the links they generate are not really that short. Or, they issue links sequentially; making their service simple for script-kiddies to play games with.
We issue alpha-numeric URL keywords in a random, slowly growing fashion. As a result, they will be as short as possible.
Don't Use This for Evil
Some URL shortening services are used by spammers to obfuscate URLs they use in their nasty work. Links made by abusers will be voided. If abuse becomes wide spread, we will start requiring user registration.