⚡ URL Shorteners in Germany

URL shorteners are online tools that convert long web addresses into shorter, easier-to-use links, often with analytics and customization options.

Germany is a Central European country with a population of around 84 million people.

According to our data, URL shorteners are used on 1.2% of websites from Germany.

Statistics based on 228K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top URL shorteners in Germany in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Amzn.to with a share of 27%, followed by Bitly with 25% and EepURL with 15%.

Amzn.to 27%
Bitly 25%
EepURL 15%
t.co 11.1%
Linkfire 6.2%
g.co 5.8%
Fb.me 4.3%
TinyURL 3.7%
Apple URL Shortener 1.1%
Short.io 1%
Cuttly 1%
ShortURL 0.8%
Lnkd.in 0.7%
Geniuslink 0.4%
Rebrandly 0.4%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top shorteners that are more popular in Germany than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. Amzn.to ^(-2)
5. Linkfire ^(-3)
7. Fb.me ^(-3)
9. Apple URL Shortener ^(-3)
10. Short.io ^(-5)
12. ShortURL ^(-1)
13. Lnkd.in ^(-6)
19. Tiny.cc ^(-2)
20. Dsc.gg ^(-6)
21. YOURLS ^(-2)

✨ Best URL Shorteners

Below is a more detailed list of 23 URL shorteners used on sites from Germany, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Amzn.to Seattle, Washington, United States A link shortener used to shorten Amazon affiliate links.	27%
2	Bitly New York, United States A URL shortening and link management platform that converts long URLs into short redirects while providing tools to organize, track, and optimize shared links across digital channels. Free$10+/month	25%
3	EepURL Atlanta, Georgia, United States A trackable URL shortening service for Mailchimp customers.	15%
4	t.co Bastrop, Texas, United States A link shortener used by Twitter to protect users from harmful links.	11.1%
5	Linkfire Copenhagen, Denmark A music marketing and analytics platform used by labels and artists to create smart links and landing pages that let fans listen to their releases. $26.99+/month	6.2%
6	g.co Mountain View, California, United States A URL shortener used exclusively by Google for its own products.	5.8%
7	Fb.me Menlo Park, California, United States A Facebook URL shortener that can be used for profiles and pages.	4.3%
8	TinyURL Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States One of the oldest URL shortening services, operating since 2002. Free$12.99+/month	3.7%
9	Apple URL Shortener Cupertino, California, United States A link service used to link to the App Store, Apple Music, and other Apple resources.	1.1%
10	Short.io Claymont, Delaware, United States A white label URL shortener that creates short links on branded domains. Free$5+/month	1%
11	Cuttly Gdansk, Poland An advanced URL shortener with link analytics, QR codes, microsites, and surveys. Free$12+/month	1%
12	ShortURL A tool to shorten a long link and create a short URL that is easy to share.	0.8%
13	Lnkd.in Mountain View, California, United States A URL shortener for LinkedIn content.	0.7%
14	Geniuslink Seattle, Washington, United States An intelligent URL shortener and affiliate link management platform that helps publishers route users to the most relevant shopping destination based on context. $6+/month	0.4%
15	Rebrandly Dublin, Ireland A platform for branded short links with retargeting. Free$14+/month	0.4%
16	Is.gd Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom A free service for shortening web addresses and other URLs.	0.4%
17	Ow.ly Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada The URL shortener built into Hootsuite social management software.	0.3%
18	T.ly A URL-shortening service that focuses on simplicity and efficiency.	0.3%
19	Tiny.cc A link management platform that offers branded short links, retargeting pixels and custom keyword URLs. Free$5+/month	0.2%
20	Dsc.gg Chicago, Illinois, United States A URL shortener for Discord links.	0.07%
21	YOURLS A self-hosted URL shortener built in PHP. FreeOpen source	0.07%
22	Sniply A simple tool that shortens links and allows users to add an overlay message to any content to include a call-to-action with each link.	0.04%
23	BL.INK Austin, Texas, United States An enterprise link management platform with support for QR codes and microsites. $48+/month	0.04%

👉 See Also

🌎 URL Shorteners in other countries

🗃️ 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 228,724 websites from Germany.
We currently track the presence of 26 URL shorteners across the web.
Of these, 23 were detected on websites from Germany.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.