Clicks on every zou.sh link are counted by day, country, referrer and device type. No cookies, no stored IP addresses, and no bots or link previews in the totals.
Counting is live on every link. The dashboard is in early access.
How it works
The visitor goes straight to the destination. The redirect sets no cookie, and their IP address is never stored.
Bots, link previews in apps like Slack, WhatsApp or Discord, scripts and headless browsers are redirected but not counted.
A human click adds one to that day’s counters for the link, split by country, referrer domain and device type.
Why it helps
Totals are already public on every link. The dashboard that breaks them down comes with accounts, in early access.
Add + to a link, like zou.sh/launch+, to see its total clicks next to the destination and creation date. No sign-in needed.
GET /links/{code} returns a clicks field next to the destination and creation date, and the MCP tool expand_link reports the same total.
Chat apps fetch a link to build its preview card. Those fetches, along with bots, scripts and headless browsers, are left out of the count.
Redirects set no cookies and visitor IP addresses are never stored. Only daily counts are kept, so there is nothing to build a profile from.
With an account, see daily clicks for each of your links, broken down by country, referrer domain and device type.
30 days of history with a free account, 1 year on Pro and 2 years on Team.
What we count
Clicks are stored as daily totals, never as individual events. Each total is split by country, referrer domain and device type, and none of it identifies a visitor.
What we leave out
A click count is only useful if it counts people. Automated requests are still redirected, but they stay out of the counters. No filter is perfect, so read the totals as a careful count of human clicks.
Availability
Everything in the first column works right now, with no account. The second comes with accounts, now in early access.
Live Today, free, no account
Early access With an account
FAQ
Add + to the link, as in https://zou.sh/launch+, to see its total clicks. The API returns the same total in the clicks field of GET /links/{code}.
No. Opening a zou.sh link sets no cookie, and the visitor’s IP address is never stored. A click only adds to daily counters by country, referrer domain and device type.
No. When a chat app fetches a link to build its preview card, the request is redirected but not counted. Bots, scripts and headless browsers are left out too.
They measure different steps. Blinkhop counts human clicks on the short link, while your site’s analytics counts visits where its script loads, so small differences are normal.
With accounts (early access), the dashboard shows 30 days of history on a free account, 1 year on Pro and 2 years on Team. The public total on the + page is available for every link today.
From Cloudflare’s country header, a two-letter code added to each request. We don’t run IP address lookups of our own, and we don’t store the address.
Help
What data does Blinkhop collect?As little as possible: no cookies, no trackers and no IP addresses stored with links or clicks. Here is exactly what we store when you create, click or report a link.
Feature
UTM tagsCampaign tracking that survives the shortening.
Solutions
Blinkhop for privacyWorks over Tor and VPNs. No captchas, no tracking.
Solutions
Blinkhop for marketersCampaign links, QR codes and analytics without cookies.
Shorten a link and its clicks start counting at once, without a single cookie.
