About Top URL Shorteners

What this site does

Top URL Shorteners answers one question: how do the tools score on each criterion? It takes the same dataset used across the related sites, applies five written rules to it, and publishes the arithmetic. No sub-score on this site was typed by a person; each is the output of a rule applied to a number on a vendor's pricing page, and the methodology page prints every rule and weight.

How the data is gathered

• Published numbers only. Limits and prices come from each vendor's own public pricing page, listed on the sources page. Where a page could not be read directly, the entry says so and names the secondary source.
• No star ratings. Third-party review scores are easy to buy and hard to audit, so they are not used.
• Dated and re-checked. Pricing pages are re-verified at least monthly and whenever a vendor announces a plan change. Every page shows its review date.

Who runs it

The site is operated by the team that builds ReSlug, one of the tools compared here, and is part of a group of related reference sites described on the related websites page. Rankings follow the published criteria on the methodology page; where another tool is stronger on those criteria it is ranked higher.

Corrections

If a limit or price has changed, email [email protected] with a link to the vendor page and it will be re-checked within a few days.