For Chrome and Safari users, Google doesn’t even need to do link redirection. Chrome supports the “ping” attribute on <a> links which basically tells the brows

For Chrome and Safari users, Google doesn’t even need to do link redirection. Chrome supports the “ping” attribute on <a> links which basically tells the browser to make an asynchronous logging request in the background when the user clicks a link. On Firefox, Google has to keep using redirects. https://caniuse.com/#search=Ping https://caniuse.com/#search=Ping The official name for this spec is “hyperlinking auditing”...