1. A computer-implemented method for indicating the relevance of shortened links to a user, the method comprising: obtaining a set of content items from one or more remote content providers, wherein each of a plurality of the content items comprises a shortened link produced by a remote link-shortening server based on an unshortened link that points to a web page; obtaining statistics associated with the shortened links from the link-shortening server, the statistics comprising counts of times that the web pages were accessed via the shortened links; ordering the content items based at least in part on the counts of the obtained statistics; and displaying the content items according to the ordering within a browser user interface.