{"id":464,"date":"2009-12-04T16:27:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T20:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2009-12-04T16:27:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T20:27:48","slug":"expandurl-passes-11000-mark-at-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/expandurl-passes-11000-mark-at-least\/","title":{"rendered":"expandUrl passes 11,000 mark (at least)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/introducing-expandurl-redirect-resolution-for-the-rest-of-us.html\">announcing the launch of expandUrl<\/a> and fixing the few bugs that cropped up in the first week or so, I have barely given the service a second thought. The API works incredibly well for my own sites which take advantage of it.<\/p>\n<p>Today, after receiving a report that the service was unavailable last night, I took another look at it. Still not sure why it went down, but while I was working on it I&#8217;ve added some basic logging (for troubleshooting purposes) and looked around the internet to see if people are using the service.<\/p>\n<p>Since logging was never included in the first place, the only way to surface a reasonable count of URLs was to count the cache files. Since cache files are programatically deleted, I was pretty shocked to find over 11,000 files in that directory. Now that I have actually logging in place, the site displays a counter. Today&#8217;s count? <strong>11,411 URLs expanded!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course, people only know about the service because of the folks who have helped spread the word about it! Thank you to all these folks for mentioning expandUrl:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brasilacademico.com\/2009\/10\/como-expandir-links-no-twitter.html\">Blog Brasil Academico<\/a> &#8220;If you prefer a cleaner and more free advertising try expandurl.com.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/troysabin\/status\/1865495529\">Troy Sabin<\/a> &#8220;The Yang to the URL shortener Yin &#8211; URL expanders&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freenuts.com\/top-10-websites-to-expand-any-short-url\/\">Free Nuts<\/a> #2 in their top ten URL expanders list!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/borrowedcode.com\/?p=158\">Borrowed Code<\/a> Mentioned as part of a blog entry about fighting Twitter spam.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mrhaoji.cn\/blog\/?p=408\">Benny Chen<\/a> &#8220;<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\" title=\"????????????,???????????????????;\">After failing to find a good solution, a short address before the humble beginning to run out to restore the service; <\/span><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\" title=\"??????????????!\">Can only say that a group of prescient people, ah!<\/span>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nullvariable.com\/2009\/11\/do-you-know-where-that-short-link-goes\/#dsq-comment-23961509\">Kate Morris<\/a> &#8220;There is another useful tool available &#8211;\u00a0http:\/\/www.expandurl.com &#8211; it shows you not only where it goes, but how many times it is redirected and how. :) Not my tool, but a friend built it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, I discovered a Google Code project that <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/ellab-gm\/source\/detail?r=170\">integrates the expandurl API<\/a> into Google Chrome. This is very cool to me, as it means the service will be used by lots of folks (even if they don&#8217;t know they&#8217;re using it!). :)<\/p>\n<p>Not too shabby for 221 days in. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since announcing the launch of expandUrl and fixing the few bugs that cropped up in the first week or so, I have barely given the service a second thought. The API works incredibly well for my own sites which take advantage of it. 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