Smart and powerful short links

Stay in control of your links with advanced features for shortening, targeting, and tracking.

How to Shorten Your Links in Seconds

Paste Your Link

Copy the long, messy URL you want to shrink and paste it into the box above. No account needed.

Click Shorten

Hit the button, and our system instantly generates a tiny shortest.cc link optimized for sharing.

Copy & Share

Your link is ready! Copy it to your clipboard and use it on X, Instagram, SMS, or your favorite platform.

The Best Free URL Shortener for Modern Link Management

In an era of complex marketing tools and gated features, Shortest.cc provides a refreshing, minimalist approach to URL shortening. We’ve built a high-performance platform that prioritizes speed and user privacy above all else. Whether you are a social media manager looking to clean up your Instagram bio links, a developer needing a reliable redirect service, or an everyday user trying to share a long URL via SMS, our tool is optimized to deliver the shortest links in the fewest clicks possible.

🚀 Built for Speed

Our infrastructure is optimized for instant redirects. Unlike other shorteners that serve ads before redirecting, Shortest.cc sends your users directly to their destination.

📈 Advanced Link Tracking

Need to know where your traffic is coming from? Our real-time analytics dashboard provides insights into clicks, countries, and referral sources without compromising user privacy.

🔗 Professional Branding

Move beyond messy strings of characters. Create custom aliases and branded links that inspire trust and significantly increase your click-through rates (CTR).

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Shortest.cc really free? +

Yes. We believe link shortening should be a basic utility of the internet. You can shorten as many links as you want without ever paying a cent or creating an account.

Do my shortened links expire? +

Unlike other services that delete links after 30 days, links created on Shortest.cc are permanent. As long as the service is active, your links will redirect to their destination.

Does using a link shortener hurt my SEO? +

No. Shortest.cc uses 301 redirects, which is the industry standard for "permanent" moves. This tells Google to pass all the "ranking power" from the short link directly to your destination website.

Is it safe to click a Shortest.cc link? +

Security is our priority. We actively monitor our database to block and remove any links associated with spam, malware, or phishing to ensure a safe experience for every user.

Can I create custom branded links? +

Yes! By registering a free account on Shortest.cc, you can customize the "alias" (the part after the slash) to match your brand or campaign name, making your links more professional and clickable.

Do you provide click statistics and analytics? +

Absolutely. We provide detailed real-time analytics, including total clicks, geographic location of visitors, referral sources, and device types, helping you understand your audience better.

Is there a limit to how many links I can shorten? +

There are no strict limits for genuine users. Shortest.cc is designed to handle everything from single personal links to large-scale marketing campaigns. We only restrict usage in cases of automated spam or abuse.

Can I use Shortest.cc for affiliate marketing links? +

Yes, Shortest.cc is a great tool for "cloaking" long, messy affiliate URLs. This makes your links look cleaner in social media bios, emails, and forum posts, which typically leads to higher conversion rates.

Features

Enhance your links with advanced customizations and detailed statistics.

Custom aliases

Branded domains

Statistics

Retargeting pixels

Traffic splitting

Password protection

Country targeting

Platform targeting

Language targeting

UTM builder

Expiration dates

QR codes

Link management

Complete link management platform to brand, track and share your short links.

Links

Shorten, share, and export your links with our advanced set of features.

Spaces

Group your links and keep them well organized through custom spaces.

Domains

Brand your links with your domains, inspire trust and increase your click-through rate.

example.com/b6vxe

Consectetur - Adipiscing

example.org/e362o

Fusce - Vehicula

example.com/gmyux

Consequat - Elit Ornare

example.net/qyd8s

Sit - Amet

example.com/bqh6e

Lorem - Ipsum Dolorem

Statistics

Get to know your audience with our detailed statistics and better understand the performance of your links, while also being GDPR, CCPA and PECR compliant.

Overview

Referrers

Countries

Cities

Languages

Platforms

Browsers

Devices