A Powerful URL Shortener for Your Marketing Needs
Pirsch is more than your ordinary URL shortener. First and foremost, it's an analytics tool that allows you to connect your shortened link statistics directly to your web analytics data. The built-in URL shortener comes with a powerful set of features – at no additional cost.
Traffic Source and UTM Parameters
Direct links to your site often hide the traffic source. With our built-in link shortener, you can create individual links for each traffic source and attach the referrer and UTM (Urchin Traffic Monitor) parameters to ensure you know the source of the link click.
Redirect Based on Country, Language, and OS
This is useful if you want to redirect iOS visitors to the App Store, while redirecting Android visitors to the Play Store, for example.
Search Engine Indexing and Optimization
We have your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) covered. The link shortener can be set to enable or disable search engine indexing. You can also customize the look and feel of the redirect page and set a custom meta title, description, and image for social media.
Expire Links
Links can be set to automatically expire and optionally redirect the visitor to a default page, making it ideal for short-lived sites and events.
Password Protected Links
Protect the destination site of a shortened URL for authorized visitors only by setting a password. On redirect, any visitor with that link will be asked to enter the password before they are redirected to the desired location.
Webhooks
Pirsch has built-in webhooks for analytics events. Since shortened links are tracked as regular events of your web analytics data, you can use them to automate processes every time a link is clicked.
Part of the Analytics Tool You Love
The URL shortener is a part of Pirsch and comes at no additional cost.
Reliable Analytics Data
Unlike other link shorteners, Pirsch will track link clicks as regular events of your website analytics data. This ensures that visitors can be tracked seamlessly, from the first page to the last, starting the session on redirect. Other shorteners rely on URL parameters (like UTM) to forward relevant data to your analytics tool, like the source. Parameters are often stripped by browsers and ad blockers. With Pirsch, you don’t need to worry about that.
Web and Click Data – on a Single Dashboard
There's no need to switch between tools to view and compare your web analytics and link data. Because the URL shortener is built into Pirsch, it's all on a single, easy-to-use dashboard that you can share with your team or clients.
Use the data collected by our URL shortener and combine it with your regular site data, like funnels and conversion goals.
Privacy-friendly and GDPR-, CCPA-, and PECR-compliant
Pirsch has no-compromise, GDPR-, CCPA-, PECR-, and Schrems II-compliant privacy. Built and hosted in Germany, we operate under strict European privacy laws. Get rid of annoying cookie banners.
