Build the one-page hub you put in your social bio and download it as a single self-contained HTML file you can host anywhere for free. Linktree charges a monthly fee for themes, analytics and removing their branding; Carrd charges for custom domains and forms. What you get here is one file with the CSS and your avatar baked in โ no account, no branding, no monthly plan, and it loads in under a tenth of a second because it is roughly twelve kilobytes.
The download is one .html file with the styling and your avatar already inside it โ there is no
second file to lose. Three free ways to host it, in order of ease: drop the file onto
Netlify Drop and you get a live URL in about ten seconds; create a GitHub repository, add the
file named index.html, switch on GitHub Pages in the repository settings, and
your page is at yourname.github.io/repo; or upload it to any web space you already pay for.
If you own a domain, point a CNAME record at your host and the page is on your own name within an hour โ which is the thing Linktree charges for on its paid tiers. There is no analytics here on purpose: counting your visitors means tracking them, and a link page does not need to know who clicked. If you want counts, add UTM tags to the individual links and read them in whatever analytics you already use.
Everything is baked at build time, so the page has no JavaScript, no fonts to download and no third-party requests at all. That is why it opens instantly on a phone connection โ and why it will still work in five years when the service you did not sign up for has shut down.