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Bitly

Who runs Bitly, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest URL shortener alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Short.io

Measured from Bitly’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Bitly

Bitly bitly.com

Bitly makes it easy to create, share, and track short links and QR Codes. Find what's resonating and scale it into bigger reach, more clicks, and more sales.

Wikidata: link management platform

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Bitly tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

More than all 20 alternatives below.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
OneTrust
US company
3 tools

  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • A/B testing

    Shows visitors different versions of the page to see which works better.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Bitly

Fewer trackers than BitlyNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Bitly match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Bitly adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 17 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,221
Vector
384-d
Query
35 ms

Built with

CMS
Tag managers
Marketing automation
  • HubSpot page source: js-eu1.hs-scripts.com
Live chat & support
  • Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_netblocks.google.com include:_netblocks2.google.com i…
Cookie consent
  • OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
A/B testing
Hosting
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=Th+HeZjMKa3QxX9JqLt67kxMrAsEfB9gz51iuPZ…
  • Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: VxdtAjqaA6XhwRJO86fcIZtRDqJAzUqlgS8AwZHmd3o
  • Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=OsqnOPaJcFcYkul1EcF9xRDbjgCiaBgdXHbq2uuC
  • Yandex Webmaster TXT yandex-verification: 641fdbe43ac1cd41