🆚 Cufon vs. Google URL Shortener
- 📈 Google URL Shortener is much more popular than Cufon.
- 🌎 Google URL Shortener is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Spain.
- 🌍 Cufon is more popular in Syria.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Cufon
Google URL ShortenerType
JavaScript library
Legacy technology
About
Cufon is a discontinued 
JavaScript library that performs text replacement on web pages, using the canvas element and VML to render fancy fonts.
Google URL Shortener is a deprecated link service from Google.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Website
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Google URL Shortener legacy technology is 25 times more popular than Cufon.
Total websites
Market share
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Google URL Shortener is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Spain, while Cufon is more popular in Syria.
United States
Japan
Spain
Germany
Australia
India
Italy
United Kingdom
Brazil
Canada
Awards
- 🔥 18th most popular in Russia in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Romania in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Poland in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Turkey in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Australia in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Paraguay in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Puerto Rico in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Google URL Shortener is more popular than Cufon in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Health
Travel
Internet Services
Real Estate
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Google Funding Choices🗃️ 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 3,531,690 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.