spk.li / v1.0 Est. 2026 4,229,118 links shrunk this week Issue Nº 001 ↘ scroll, gently

Compress the web to a speck.

Speck is a link shortener for people who actually look at their links. Paste anything ridiculous; receive a tiny, beautiful, perfectly tracked URL — served from edges so close to your readers they barely have time to blink.

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Your speck
0.18smedian redirect
14chaverage length
custom domains
Chapter 01 — The craft

Built like a typewriter, fast like a thought.

Most shorteners feel like a redirect coupon hidden behind a banner ad. Speck treats every link like a small, deliberate object worth caring about — from the slug you choose to the page that loads on the other side.

Tiny, on purpose.

Slugs default to four legible characters. Add your own when the moment calls for a little flourish.

Edge-first redirects.

Every speck answers from the closest of eleven regions. Median 180 ms — usually faster than your DNS.

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Your domain, not ours.

Bring go.yourbrand.com. Speck quietly handles the certs, the proxying, the rest.

Honest analytics.

Clicks, sources, devices, geographies — no creepy fingerprinting, no consent banner gymnastics.

0.18s

Median redirect from speck → destination, measured at the 50th percentile across every region.

4.2M

Links shrunk this week by writers, marketers, podcasters, and people who really hate ugly URLs.

99.99%

Uptime in 2025, including the time a raccoon took out a substation in Ashburn, Virginia.

It is the only link shortener I open as a tab on purpose.

Maddy Ortiz  ·  Brand Lead, Heliograph