🆚 Google URL Shortener vs. Google Sign-In
- 📈 Google URL Shortener is much more popular than Google Sign-In.
- 🌍 Google URL Shortener is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.7M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Google URL ShortenerType
Legacy technology
Authentication service
About
Google URL Shortener, also known as goo.gl, is a deprecated link service from Google.
It generated shortened URLs, provided click analytics, and created QR codes for sharing links.
Google Sign-In is a deprecated 
JavaScript library that has been superseded by 
Google Identity services for Web.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Website
Pricing
Free ✔️
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Google URL Shortener legacy technology is 33 times more popular than Google Sign-In.
Total websites
Market share
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Google URL Shortener is more popular than Google Sign-In in all countries.
United States
Japan
Spain
Australia
Germany
India
Italy
United Kingdom
Brazil
Canada
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Taiwan in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Paraguay in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Iceland in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in India in the Authentication category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Spain in the Authentication category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Vietnam in the Authentication category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Authentication category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Brazil in the Authentication category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Google URL Shortener is more popular than Google Sign-In in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Health
Travel
Internet Services
Real Estate
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Restaurants
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 3,717,657 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.