cutt.ly
cutt.ly
Who runs cutt.ly, 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 cutt.ly’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit cutt.ly01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs cutt.ly
cutt.ly
URL Shortener with branded short links & QR Codes. Shorten long URLs instantly, track every click. Link in Bio, Campaigns, Surveys and Teams in one platform.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What cutt.ly 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.
tracker that follows visitors
6 of the 20 alternatives below have fewer, 8 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to cutt.ly
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to cutt.ly, thumbs down if it isn’t.
11 of the 60 sites closest to cutt.ly match.
- 01
Short.io — URL shortener with custom domains & analytics
Free URL shortener with custom branded domains, analytics, and QR codes. Create up to 1,000 branded short links at no cost. No credit card required.
Very close - 02
exe.io - Monetize your traffic with the highest CPMs!
exe.io is a free link shortener: earn for every 1,000 views your links get, at a rate set by the visitor's country, then withdraw your balance.
Close - 03
Geniuslink - URL Shortener for Creators and Affiliates
Intelligent URL shortener that routes users to different destinations based on device, operating system, country, and more. Maximize your Amazon earnings.
Close - 04
Monetize your Gaming Links
Monetize your gaming content with LootLabs. Shorten and share links to earn revenue, track performance, and level up your gaming monetization strategy.
Close - 05
Plausible Analytics | Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative
Plausible is a lightweight and open-source Google Analytics alternative. Your website data is 100% yours and the privacy of your visitors is respected.
Close - 06
Carrd - Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything
A free platform for building simple, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything.
Close - 07
sourcehut - the hacker's forge
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
Close - 08
How To Make a Website – Free Website Builder | Strikingly
Strikingly is the best free website builder for anyone to create a gorgeous, mobile-friendly website easily. Quick, simple and stylish. Make your own free website today.
Close - 09
Privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative | Real-time Web Analytics | Clicky
Clicky's privacy-friendly web analytics is simply the best Google Analytics alternative. Monitor, analyze, & react to your website's traffic in real-time.
Close - 10
Wakelet | Save, Organise and Share Content in Collections
Wakelet is the all-in-one platform for curating, organising and sharing content. Build collections for your classroom, team or personal projects. Free to start.
Close - 11
Datawrapper: Create charts, maps, and tables
Create interactive, responsive & beautiful data visualizations with the online tool Datawrapper — no code required.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles cutt.ly’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones cutt.ly uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what cutt.ly 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, the competitor map and search numbers · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 74 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to cutt.ly’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://cutt.ly/scripts/jquery.js?v=03112023
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://cutt.ly/scripts/bootstrap.min.js?v=2302202301
- Fonts
- Google Fonts page source: fonts.gstatic.com
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630d332c1c20da-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP cookie PHPSESSID
- Video
- YouTube embeds page source: youtube-nocookie.com/embed/
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS ruben.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=teSYBNU4BseciatKpSeK42EJZMvlH2appyW2-nQPUCw
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace · not on cutt.ly 12/20
- Cloudflare 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS 11/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on cutt.ly 6/20
- Google Analytics 5/20
- OpenAI · not on cutt.ly 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on cutt.ly 4/20
- Stripe · not on cutt.ly 4/20
- HubSpot · not on cutt.ly 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on cutt.ly 4/20
- PHP 4/20
- Zendesk · not on cutt.ly 4/20
- Google Fonts 4/20
- Intercom · not on cutt.ly 3/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on cutt.ly 3/20