Usage
Configuration → Usage answers a capacity question rather than an engagement one: how much are we using short links, whose projects is the volume in, and is it growing? It's the screen to open before changing a retention window — and the reason it sits next to Projects rather than under Analytics.
The three panels
Three panels across the top, each showing links created, not links currently stored:
- Short links created — how many links your organization made in the selected time range.
- Transactional — of those, the ones that will be cleaned up once they age past their project's window.
- Pinned — how many links you're keeping forever.
The three panels don't add up — and that's correct
Short links created and Transactional follow the range chips above the chart: change the range and they change. Pinned is always counted all time, whatever the range says — a pinned link is long-lived by definition, so counting only the pinned links made in the last few months would hide the oldest and most permanent ones, which are exactly the links this number exists to surface.
Because the first two are windowed and Pinned is all-time, the three won't sum to each other. Each panel shows its own scope underneath — "Last 12 months", "All time" — so you can see at a glance which is which. Within a single range, Transactional is simply Short links created minus the pinned links made in that same range.
In a healthy account transactional is almost all of the volume and pinned is a small, deliberate handful — that's the shape the product expects. A pinned count climbing into the thousands usually means links are being pinned by reflex rather than by need.
"Created", not "stored"
Everything on this page counts links your organization created in the range — not the links it currently holds. For the lifetime stored count, the Overview's "Short links" card is the number to read; it shows the same all-time total this page does.
The growth chart
Below the panels, a chart shows links created per month, split by project. It tells you where volume is coming from and whether it's accelerating — the two things worth knowing before you decide a retention window is too long.
- Last 12 months (the default) or All time.
- Stacked or Grouped. Stacked makes each bar the monthly total, with the projects as segments — best for seeing growth. Grouped puts every project on the same baseline — the only way to compare two mid-sized projects fairly. The choice only appears when there's more than one project to show.
The chart updates every few minutes
The panels above are always the live, exact count. The chart is refreshed on a short cycle rather than on every single new link, so its bars can trail the panel figure by up to about 15 minutes — a difference invisible across months, and noted under the chart itself. When the panels and the newest bar differ slightly, the panels are the ones to trust.
"All time" means the last 2 years
The All time chip shows the last 24 months — the longest any project is allowed to keep data — not your entire history. Two years is the widest view this page offers, so links created longer ago than that aren't counted here, on the panels or the chart.
Reading it together
The panels and the chart share the same range, so they line up:
- "Short links created" over "All time" ≈ the sum of the chart's bars — the panel is the exact figure; the bars are the same volume drawn month by month.
- One project dominating the bars → that's the project whose retention window actually moves your numbers. Set a shorter window there rather than a blanket one everywhere.
- Pinned climbing steadily → pinning is being used as a habit rather than a decision. Pinned links are never cleaned up, so that number only goes up unless someone unpins.