Combine methods: Use one or more of the above methods above. Recently bit.ly announced the addition of a premium service to its URL-tracking system. Unfortunately, this URL shortener doesn’t allow you do create a custom short URL. If a member uses a URL and then changes it, that URL will be unavailable for use by other members for six months.
Services that don’t do this can end up being blacklisted on major websites which won’t allow links from such services to be displayed. This sounds like a lot of work if you want to track all your outgoing links. This means using JohnSmith, johnsmith, or johnSmith will all point to the same profile. Once you've found a domain you like, you'll need to register it. When you are using HootSuite, you can shorten any URL to an ow.ly or ht.ly link. Libya, for instance, exercised its control over the .ly domain in October 2010 to shut down vb.ly for violating Libyan pornography laws.
See if you are using Classic Analytics (ga.js) or Universal Analytics (analytics.js).