How to know if my links are shortened by SendGrid

Objective

For Click Tracking and Link Branding, SendGrid wraps your links to track and report this data to your logs (click events). 

 

Product

Twilio Email (SendGrid)

 

User Account Permission/Role(s) Required 

All accounts

 

Procedure 

A regular link wrapped by us, depending of they have click tracking only (http://ct.sendgrid.net/ls.....) or click tracking and link branding (https://yourdomain.com/ls.....), will include an specific tag right after the domain is mentioned which is /ls, as in the above example. This tag specifies that the link is long signed, so it is a regular link.

A link that has been shortened by our link shortening feature will include a different tag which will be:

/ss, which stands for short signed. 

A sample link with regular size will then have the /ls tag like in this example: 

http://alerts.example.th/ls/click?upn=u001.CqWsMmF4np8MaXicnMxCT4vxY-2B1qOzOuczIEC9WolM4-3Dad4Y_iSAbizCL2BcFkG96n-2FkMaM-2FluYtAL4g-2BB6J5EzizyRMqnWzG4xFBM8sLdbNRxekKHk9vuK4-3D-3D
 

Whereas this is an example of a shortened link (which is also shorter than previous link) includes the /ss tag right after the domain name: 

http://alerts.example.th/ss/c/u001.oiWD2OjcX0fghWZ0lakxkwhGFRb2Vioc-bznblRHIj4/4kp/J7B9_edwSpO56FunQNjXaQ/h0/h001.n5MqVkrQASHGH9qizPqHXppA8tAxMuB34jviZOrK3jo

 

Additional Information 

For more information about links and click tracking, please head to our Click Tracking and Link Branding guides!

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