🆚 Apple URL Shortener vs. g.co
- 📈 g.co is much more popular than Apple URL Shortener.
- 🌎 g.co is more popular in the United States, India, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Apple URL Shortener is more popular in Korea, Hong Kong, and Lebanon.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
URL shortener
URL shortener
About
Apple URL Shortener is a link service used to link to the 
App Store, Apple Music, and other Apple resources.
G.co is a URL shortening service used exclusively by 
Google to create shortcut links for its own products, services, and official webpages.
Only Google employees and authorized teams can create g.co links, which redirect exclusively to Google-owned destinations and are widely used across services such as Search, 
Maps, 
YouTube, and support documentation.
Headquarters
Cupertino, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Categories
URL Shorteners › Rank #13
URL Shorteners › Rank #5
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The g.co URL shortener is 7 times more popular than Apple URL Shortener.
Total websites
Market share
URL Shorteners
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
g.co is more popular in the United States, India, and the United Kingdom, while Apple URL Shortener is more popular in Korea, Hong Kong, and Lebanon.
United States
India
United Kingdom
Spain
Germany
Australia
France
Canada
Italy
Brazil
Awards
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Japan in the URL Shorteners category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in the United States in the URL Shorteners category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the URL Shorteners category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in India in the URL Shorteners category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Poland in the URL Shorteners category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the URL Shorteners category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the URL Shorteners category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
g.co is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Apple URL Shortener is more commonly used on entertainment and games sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Health
Travel
Education/Reference
Real Estate
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 4,009,087 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.