🆚 g.co vs. TinyURL

📈 g.co is noticeably more popular than TinyURL.
🌎 g.co is more popular in the United States, India, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 TinyURL is more popular in Indonesia, Japan, and Singapore.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

g.co

TinyURL

Type

URL shortener

About

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.

TinyURL is one of the oldest URL shortening services, operating since 2002, that generates compact redirect links for websites, emails, social media, and marketing campaigns.

The service supports custom aliases, branded domains, QR code generation, editable destinations, expiration rules, bulk link creation, and click analytics.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States

Website

g.co #113,519

tinyurl.com #17,331

Pricing

Free version ✔️ 100 links per month

Pro $12.99+/month

Bulk 100K $129+/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The g.co URL shortener is 1.5 times more popular than TinyURL.

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 TinyURL is more popular in Indonesia, Japan, and Singapore.

United States

India

United Kingdom

Indonesia

Germany

Spain

Australia

Canada

France

Italy

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 Turkey in the URL Shorteners category.
🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the URL Shorteners category.
🥈 Second most popular in Vietnam in the URL Shorteners category.

🥈 Second most popular in Singapore in the URL Shorteners category.
🥉 Third most popular in India in the URL Shorteners category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Ukraine in the URL Shorteners category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Indonesia in the URL Shorteners category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Japan 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 TinyURL is more commonly used on education and reference, blogs and wiki, and sports sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Health

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Sports

Real Estate

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#63

#207

#724

#1,248

Name

Rank

#23

#203

#386