A URL shortener with no ads: click, and you're there

Every Glacat short link redirects with a plain HTTP 302 straight to the destination. Visitors never see an ad page or wait out a countdown. You don't have to take our word for it: any HTTP tool will show you.

The quickest way is to check it yourself

Take any Glacat short link and run the command below. You'll get back one 302 status and a Location header pointing at the original URL. Nothing else in between:

curl -I https://glacat.com/your-code

A shortener that runs interstitial ads answers the same request with a 200 and a full HTML page. The visitor has to sit through the ad and wait for the countdown before they get anywhere.

Why it matters

An extra ad page costs the person sharing the link real traffic. One more click and a five-second wait, and some visitors simply leave. Interstitials also get mistaken for scams or shady redirects, which reflects on whatever you shared. And you have no say over which ads show up there. On mobile, every bit of delay is felt even more.

Glacat handles the redirect at the edge node closest to the visitor. Click statistics are written separately in the background, so they never slow the redirect down. And since no page is ever rendered, visitors don't load any third-party tracking scripts either.

Our promise

Every Glacat short link is a straight 302. Click it and you're on the destination page. No interstitial, no countdown, no page in between. That won't change.

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