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10 Best URL Shorteners and why they are good. URL shortening services are used by millions of people on daily basis as they a serve very important purposes in areas like social networking and internet marketing and are extremely useful in Internet conversations on services like twitter when someone want to share a link. With only 140 characters available to deliver the message a normal link can take up most of the space. Besides shrinking URLs some of the services provide features that can be more useful than you may think. If you are not aware of the possibilities keep reading. Advertisement What is a URL shortener A URL shortener is an online application that allows the user to enter a full URL for any specific web page, click on a button, and automatically shortens a long wordy URL to a short domain name and uses a 5 or 6 character code.

When users are clicking on that short links they are redirected to the original URLs just as if they had entered or clicked on that. Where URL Shorteners are useful 1. Features: Add SPDY support to your Apache server with mod_spdy. By Matthew Steele and Bryan McQuade, PageSpeed Insights Team At Google, we strive to make the whole web fast. Our work in this area includes PageSpeed, Google Chrome, and the SPDY protocol, among other efforts. In December of 2011, to make it easy for you to enable the SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY") protocol on your sites, we released an early beta of mod_spdy, an Apache module that adds SPDY support to the Apache HTTPD server.

We’ve spent the last few months working with our early adopters to fix bugs and tune performance of the module. Today, we’re launching a version of mod_spdy that we encourage you to try on your web server. Installing mod_spdy To install mod_spdy on your Apache 2.2 server, simply download the appropriate mod_spdy Debian or RPM package for your platform, or compile from source. Enabling SPDY for your site improves performance in several ways: How mod_spdy works in Apache Implementing SPDY in Apache posed several interesting challenges.

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