Insights, tutorials, and updates from the QCK team about URL shortening, analytics, and digital marketing.
A practical guide to moving from Bitly, including the part most migration guides skip: bit.ly links themselves cannot move. What transfers, what does not, and how to run the switch without breaking links you have already printed.
Bitly's free plan now includes 5 short links per month, no click analytics, and ad interstitials on your links. Here is the full list of limits, straight from Bitly's own pricing page, and what a free alternative looks like.
Bitly's paid plans run from $10 to $300 per month, with annual-only billing on the cheapest tier and team seats reserved for Enterprise. A plain breakdown of every tier, verified from Bitly's pricing page.
What Bitly, Short.io, Dub, and QCK actually cost per month in 2026, including the limits that matter: links, analytics history, custom domains, and team seats. Verified from each vendor's pricing page.
170 million rows. 2.71 GiB on disk. We dropped one column and changed some types. Same data, same queries: 166 MiB. Here's what we learned about ClickHouse compression the hard way.
Beyond simple link shortening: how to use custom aliases, UTM tracking, and link organization to build a professional URL strategy.
