🆚 g.co vs. Ow.ly

📈 g.co is much more popular than Ow.ly.
🌎 g.co is more popular in the United States, India, and Spain.
🌍 Ow.ly is more popular in Thailand.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

g.co

Ow.ly

Type

URL shortener

About

G.co is a URL shortener used exclusively by Google for its own products.

Ow.ly is the URL shortener built into Hootsuite social management software.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Website

g.co #113,519

hootsuite.com/pages/owly #49,838

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The g.co URL shortener is 13 times more popular than Ow.ly.

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 Spain, while Ow.ly is more popular in Thailand.

United States

India

Spain

Thailand

United Kingdom

Germany

Australia

Canada

Italy

France

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in India in the URL Shorteners category.
🥈 Second most popular in Poland in the URL Shorteners category.
🥈 Second most popular in Vietnam in the URL Shorteners category.
🥈 Second most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the URL Shorteners category.
🥉 Third most popular in Australia in the URL Shorteners category.

⭐ 5th most popular in Thailand in the URL Shorteners category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

g.co is more popular than Ow.ly in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Internet Services

Health

Travel

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Real Estate

Recreation/Hobbies

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#63

#207

#724

#1,248

Name

Rank

#48,732

#56,695

#63,031

#70,447

transparenttextures.com

#72,307