Bit.uZ is the evolution of bit.gy a URLs shorting serviced, based on YOURLS founded in may 2010 by Luca Scalvi, an italian web designer/developer and system administrator.

Do you use twitter or frienfeed? if yes you need a URLs shortening service like Bit.uZ. With our service you can generate short links from long links to share them easily on twitter or whatever you want! It's not easy to share a link like:

It's too long and ugly!. With Bit.uZ you can turn this link into this one, more compact and easy to share.

It's not over. When you are logged you can see advanced statistics on every link you have shortened. For this example stats are visible here:

You can short your link directly from Bit.uZ home page or using one of the following tools we have developed

• Use direct access APIs (documentation here) directly in your browser bar simply using: http://bit.uz/shorter-api.php?url=[TARGET_URL]
• Use Firefox or Chrome Extension that you can download for free from Mozilla Add-ons Site here and from Chrome Web Store here
• Use Wordpress plugin to easily short post blog's URLs
• Use your application that use Bit.uZ APIs

Links shortened with any of these methods will appear in your profile if you are logged into Bit.uZ when you create them.

We don't allow link edit, because we want to stop fraudolent modification in link title or link keywords.

You can share your links easily immediatly after you have created them using the sociable bar in the right of the shortened link. You can also share your stored links pressing the share button next to the link or for mobile users, pressing on QR icon to generate a QR Code for your short link.

No. Your links are private. Only you, when logged in, can view statistics, info and sharing tool. Your link will be visible only when you decide to share them.

No. Your links doesn't have an expiration date. You can be sure that users will arrive at the correct site ever.

Yes. Your links are unique. We don't re-use shortened link. On the other hand you can short the same URL and it will be shortened into another one with many different short links.

You can view the click counter in your profile next to every links you have shortened. For advanced statistics you must click on statistics icon in your profile next every links stored in your profile or access statistics using this way

• http://bit.uz/stats/"[SHORTENED_URL]"+

Traffic statistics label is the advanced way to see how much traffic your shortened link has generated. Here you can see the number of clicks in the last 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days and overall. This section highlights the best day, based on clicks per day on every single link. Graphics peaks help you to have in a look the traffic situation on each link.

Traffic location label collects the geographic information of visitors who clicked on your links. You can see the top five country that generate traffic on your links and a world map that highlights the most important country for each of your links.

Traffic sources label tracks all the referrial for your shortened links. This is the most important section in the statistics dashboard. You can truly understand where your link is shared around the web. When a user clicks your link outside a browser, the link has no referrial data, so this traffic is tracks under "Direct traffic". This is a list of sources that has no referrial data:

• Email clients
• SMS or MMS
• IM apps or mobile apps
• Any Bit.uZ link typed directly in browser's address bar

We can proudly say that our script has an accuracy about 99,5%. We work hard to keep this value as high as possible.