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How LinkLoom works, what it records, and what it deliberately does not do.
Getting a short link
Paste a URL
Put the long URL in the field on the home page and press shorten. Nothing to configure, nothing to sign up for.
https://example.com/a/very/long/path?utm_source=newsletter
Take the code
You get a ten-character code immediately. Copy the short URL from the record, or open it to check where it lands.
linkloom.link/wnG6Gi8huM
Watch the clicks
Press Show stats on the record for click counts, referrers, devices, browsers and a recent-click log.
linkloom.link/?analytics=wnG6Gi8huM
The short version
Everything worth knowing, in one table.
| Lifetime | 30 days from creation. Re-shortening a live link does not extend it. |
|---|---|
| Accounts | None. There is nothing to sign in to. |
| Stats access | Anyone holding the code can read them. |
| Code length | 10 characters from A-Z, a-z, 0-9, - and _. |
| Links kept | The last 20 you made, in this browser's storage. |
| Recorded per click | Timestamp, browser, device, referrer. |
| Cookies | None for tracking. |
| Cost | Free. |
Reading the stats
Every mark on a record means something, and agrees with the figure printed beside it.
The thread strip
Thirty threads, one per day of a link’s life. Tall threads are days still to come, short ones are spent, so the count of tall threads is exactly the “expires in” figure. With five days or fewer left the strip turns red — the only place that colour appears.
Bars
Clicks per day are scaled to the busiest day in the week shown. A day with no clicks draws nothing at all, rather than a sliver that would read as activity. Today’s bar is hatched while it is still counting, so it never claims a total the day has not reached.
Referrer, device and browser bars are scaled to their share of the total, so a bar always agrees with the percentage next to it.
What there is no API for
Being direct about the gaps, so you do not build on something that will move.
There is no documented public API. The endpoints behind this site exist for this site, are unversioned, and may change without notice. If you need programmatic shortening, say so via the contact details on the terms page.
There is also no custom alias, no link editing, and no way to delete a link early — a code is issued as-is and expires on schedule. If a link is being abused, report it and it stops redirecting while it is reviewed.