Free URL shortener · no accounts
Every link getsthirty days.
Paste a URL, take the short one, watch the clicks come in. No account, no sign-in. Shorten a URL that has already expired and it comes back for another thirty.
Your links
Nothing woven yet. Paste a URL above and it appears here as a record you can copy, open and track.
Look up any link
Stats are open to anyone holding the code — no ownership, no login. Paste a LinkLoom URL or just the code.
- 30days
- 0accounts
- 10chars
- Free
What you get
Six things, and the trade-off attached to each one where there is one.
Click stats, not a dashboard tax
Total and unique clicks, referrers, devices, browsers and a recent-click log — on every link, without a paid tier.
No account, ever
No sign in, no email, no password to forget. Paste a URL and the short link exists.
Destinations get screened
Brand imitations, bare IPs, shortener chains and fake sign-in wording are refused or put behind a warning page.
Expiry as a feature
Thirty days, then the code stops resolving. Nothing you shared once stays live pointing somewhere you stopped watching.
Fast redirects
A single indexed lookup, typically well under 100 ms before the browser is handed onward.
No tracking cookies
Per-click data is a timestamp, browser, device and referrer. Nothing that identifies a person.
The life of a link
Four moments, and the whole of what LinkLoom does. The labels are real elapsed time, not step numbers.
Questions
Plain answers, including the ones that are a trade-off.
Why is LinkLoom free?
Because the costs it avoids are the expensive ones. There are no accounts to store, no support burden from password resets, and links expire after thirty days rather than accumulating forever as permanent redirects. What is left is cheap enough to give away, so there is no paid tier and no feature held back.
Is LinkLoom reliable?
Redirects are a single indexed lookup and the service aims for high uptime, but it is free and provided as-is with no guarantee. The honest guidance: it is well suited to a share with a finite life, and not suited to a permanent redirect you embed once and stop watching — partly because every link expires after thirty days by design.
Why do links expire after thirty days?
Because most short links are made for one announcement, one thread, one message — and a shortener that keeps every link forever becomes a permanent redirect service with permanent costs. Thirty days covers the life of the share. Note that re-shortening a link that is still live returns the same link with its original expiry — it does not extend it. Once a link has expired, shortening that URL again revives it for a fresh thirty days.
Do I need an account?
There are no accounts. Paste a URL and the short link exists. The trade-off is that nothing is tied to you: the list of links you have made lives in this browser's storage, so clearing it loses the list. The links themselves keep working until they expire.
Who can see a link's statistics?
Anyone with the code. Since there are no accounts, there is no owner to check against — if someone has your code they can read its stats. Treat the code as public, and do not shorten a URL whose click pattern you would rather keep to yourself.
What gets recorded on a click?
Timestamp, browser, device type, and the referring page. That is the whole list. No tracking cookies, no fingerprinting, nothing that identifies a person. Unique counts are an approximation, not a headcount.
How fast are the redirects?
A lookup is a single indexed read, typically resolving in well under 100 ms before the browser is handed onward.
What stops LinkLoom being used for phishing?
Destinations are screened when the link is made, and anything that looks like a fake sign-in page, a brand imitation, or a chain into another shortener is either refused or put behind a warning page. Any link can be reported, and a reported link stops redirecting while it is reviewed.
Is there an API?
Not a public one yet. The redirect and stats endpoints exist for the web app but are not documented or versioned, so they may change without notice.
Ready to shorten something?
No sign in, no account, always free. A link takes one paste and lasts thirty days.