🆚 g.co vs. X.gd
X.gdType
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.
X.gd is a free URL shortener developed in Japan.
It offers permanent links, editable destination URLs, and public tracking analytics accessible by adding a “+” to the end of any shortened link.
Headquarters
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
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.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 3,816,780 websites. However, data for X.gd is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.