Redirect Chain Checker illustration

Redirect Chain Checker

Enter a URL and the server follows its redirects hop by hop, showing each status code, target and response time — and warns about chains, loops, temporary redirects and https-to-http downgrades.

The scheme is optional; https:// is assumed.

Notes

  • 301 and 308 are permanent redirects that pass ranking signals to the target; 302, 303 and 307 are temporary and tell search engines to keep the old URL indexed.
  • Each hop costs a full round trip. Google follows up to 10 hops, but every hop after the first wastes crawl budget and slows users down.
  • This check runs from our server, so it only reaches publicly accessible URLs.

Explore the idea

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