Similar to TinyURL, a short URL service can be created in minutes with Shorty.

Shorty is a PHP script for creating shorter, human readable links from long URLs.

A reason to prefer using Shorty for personal use rather than TinyURL or similar services may be eliminating the risk of these services becoming offline and losing your links, as you can use this free short URL script forever.

Shorty has an admin interface where links can be organized and clicking statistics can be viewed. You can even have a RSS for your links.

PHP Speedy is a a PHP script which increases the loading times of web pages.

PHP Speedy automatically joins all the appropriate files together and compresses them which decreases the amount of requests made to the server & sizes of the files. Result is a dramatic decrease in the loading speeds.

The script can be used in most of the PHP enabled websites.

Installation of this PHP script can be done automatically or manually. After the installation PHP Speedy code must be inserted at the top of the website’s main content generating file (index.php in most cases). There is already a how-to for WordPress too.

Before PHP Speedy (14 requests in 4.44 seconds):

After PHP Speedy (4 requests in 1.1 seconds)