Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Get more information on your goo.gl URL

When I started using goo.gl, I was surprised why statistics for older URLs went missing. Turns out that by default the goo.gl Dashboard shows only the statistics for the last week by default. Here you can see that goo.gl shows very few clicks


One of the URL has 0 clicks, which I know to be wrong because I always click on then short goo.gl link as soon as I created it to make sure its working.

If you notice on the top right corner, goo.gl Dashbord view defaults to last week's statistics. Click on all time and you will see the updated statistics.


Detailed Statistics for Short URL
Similar to bit.ly, you can easily view the statistics of the Short URL by appending a '+' character to the end of the URL. For example, the statistics for http://goo.gl/LiFgI is available at http://goo.gl/LiFgI+


Another way is to use the URL http://goo.gl/info/LiFgI. To filter the statistics by period of time, use http://goo.gl/info/LiFgI#all_timehttp://goo.gl/info/LiFgI#monthhttp://goo.gl/info/LiFgI#week or http://goo.gl/info/LiFgI#day


QR code for your Short URL
You can get the QR code by appending '.qr' at the end of your goo.gl Short URL. For example, http://goo.gl/LiFgI.qr


Notice that when you type in this URL into your browser's location bar, it will expand to http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=150x150&choe=UTF-8&chld=H&chl=http://goo.gl/LiFgI

You can change the size of the generated QR image by changing the chs parameter. For example, to generate a 300px x 300px image, use the URL

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=300x300&choe=UTF-8&chld=H&chl=http://goo.gl/LiFgI

The maximum allowed size of generated QR image is 1000x1000 pixels.
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