Click counts that only count real people
Every click on a Flyn link is checked against a bot and crawler filter before it is recorded. Preview bots and search crawlers get dropped, so the numbers you report are the humans who actually visited.
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Paste a link into Slack, iMessage, or Twitter/X and each of those apps quietly fetches it to build a preview card. To a basic click counter, every one of those fetches looks like a visit, and your total climbs before a single person clicks. Flyn filters those hits out. Each incoming click is screened against a bot and crawler filter first: non-human traffic from preview scanners and search crawlers is dropped and never recorded, while real visits pass through and get counted. The result is a click number you can put in a report without a mental discount, cleaner campaign data, and decisions based on people instead of noise. Bot filtering runs on every link, on both Free and Pro plans, with nothing to configure.
How it works
Up and running in minutes
Every click is screened first
When someone (or something) hits a Flyn short link, the request is checked against a bot and crawler filter before anything is written to your analytics. Screening happens inline on the redirect, so it never slows the visitor down.
Non-human hits are dropped
Link-preview scanners from Slack, iMessage, Twitter/X, and other messaging apps, along with search-engine crawlers, are identified and discarded. They are not counted toward your click total, so a link shared in ten group chats does not inflate before anyone opens it.
Real visits get recorded
Human clicks pass the filter and flow into your analytics as normal. On Pro, those same clean clicks power the geo, city, device, OS, browser, and referrer breakdowns, so every dimension reflects real people too.
You report with confidence
Open any link and the count you see is the count you can share. No spreadsheet caveats, no guessing how much of the number was preview bots, no manual cleanup before a client update.
Why it matters
What you get
Preview bots never inflate your total
Slack, iMessage, and Twitter/X unfurl every link you paste. Flyn drops those scanner hits so a link shared across chats and feeds does not rack up phantom clicks.
Numbers you can report as-is
When the click count already excludes bots and crawlers, you can hand it to a client or a stakeholder without a footnote explaining what is real and what is not.
Cleaner campaign measurement
Compare channels and creatives on human clicks alone. Bot noise stripped out means the campaign that actually performed is the one that looks like it performed.
On by default, on every link
There is no toggle to remember and no setting to get wrong. Filtering runs on every short link automatically, on both Free and Pro.
Better decisions from truer data
Budgets, headlines, and landing pages get judged on real engagement. Cleaner inputs mean the choices you make from them hold up.
Human-only breakdowns on Pro
Because only real clicks are recorded, Pro's geo, city, device, OS, browser, and referrer reports describe actual visitors, not crawler user agents.
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Frequently asked questions
What exactly gets filtered out?
Automated, non-human traffic: link-preview scanners from messaging and social apps such as Slack, iMessage, and Twitter/X, plus search-engine crawlers and similar bots. These hits are dropped before they reach your analytics, so they never count toward your click total.
Do I need to turn bot filtering on?
No. It runs automatically on every Flyn short link, on both Free and Pro plans. There is nothing to configure, enable, or maintain. Every click you see has already passed the filter.
Will filtering slow down my links or block real visitors?
No. The check happens inline on the redirect and only affects whether a hit is recorded, not whether the visitor reaches the destination. Real people are never blocked, and the redirect stays fast.
Why is my Flyn click count lower than another shortener showed?
Because Flyn is not counting the bots that the other tool did. Basic click counters record every hit, including preview scanners and crawlers, which inflates the number. A lower, bot-filtered count is the more accurate one to act on and report.
Does bot filtering affect the detailed analytics on Pro?
It makes them cleaner. Since only human clicks are recorded, Pro's geo, city, device, OS, browser, and referrer breakdowns are built from real visitors rather than crawler traffic, so every dimension reflects actual people. Bot filtering itself runs on every Flyn link, including the free plan's 25 links a month, at no cost. The geo, device and referrer breakdowns are the Pro part, at $12 a month or $9 a month billed annually.
Is this the same as conversion tracking?
No. Bot filtering keeps your click counts honest by excluding non-human hits before they are recorded. Measuring what happens after the click is a different job, and Flyn covers it too: the conversion tracking feature (Pro) records signups and sales per link, counted against those same verified human clicks.
Why teams choose Flyn
Built to trust, priced to keep
Flat, honest pricing
One $9/mo rate (about 8 EUR / 7 GBP). No per-link fees, no metered "tracked clicks", no surprise tier jumps.
GDPR-safe by design
No raw IP addresses stored, plus one-click data export and deletion. Built to fit EU and UK privacy rules.
No ad interstitials
Clean redirects on your own branded domain. Your audience never lands on a preview or ad page first.
Numbers you can trust
Click and scan analytics are bot-filtered, so you measure real people, not crawlers padding your stats.
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