Redirect Checker
Trace the complete HTTP redirect path, identify redirect loops, analyze status codes, and check headers for any URL.
Professional Redirect Checker for Everyone
The Redirect Checker (Redirect Path Tracer) allows you to enter any URL and trace the entire redirect chain, showing you each intermediate hop, its HTTP response status code, and latency times. Easily debug SEO redirect issues such as infinite loops, temporary redirects where permanent redirects should be used, or long redirect chains that waste search engine crawl budget. For each step in the chain, you can inspect full response headers (like Server, Cache-Control, and X-Redirect-By) to quickly diagnose server configuration issues. Perfect for web developers, SEO managers, and server administrators who want to optimize website loading speeds and SEO crawl budget.
Key Benefits
Why choose our Redirect Checker for your workflow?
Optimize Crawl Budget: Keep search engine bots crawling your actual target pages, not intermediate redirects.
Preserve SEO equity (Link juice): Verify that 301 redirects are used permanently to pass PageRank value.
Improve Site Load Time: Minimize HTTP request latency by reducing the number of redirects in the chain.
Common Use Cases
Real-world examples of how to use this tool.
Domain Migration: Validating that all old domain URLs redirect properly to the new domain.
HTTPS Migrations: Ensuring HTTP requests redirect permanently to secure HTTPS counterparts.
Broken Link Audits: Tracing target paths of external links to find redirect loops.
How to use Redirect Checker?
Follow these simple steps to get the best results.
Enter the starting URL you want to analyze.
Click 'Check Redirects' to execute the server-side tracer.
Review the visual timeline showing each redirect step.
Inspect the latency and status code (e.g. 301 Moved Permanently) for each hop.
Expand any step in the path to inspect detailed response headers.
Read the diagnostic suggestions to optimize redirect performance.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about our Redirect Checker tool.
What is a redirect chain?
A redirect chain is a series of redirects between the initial URL and the final destination URL (e.g. URL A redirects to URL B, which redirects to URL C). Chains slow down page loading speeds and dilute search engine link authority.
How many redirects are allowed before it harms SEO?
Ideally, there should be zero redirects, but a single redirect (one hop) is acceptable and common. Google recommends having no more than 3-5 redirects in a chain, as search bots may stop following redirects after 5 hops.
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