Free tool
Redirect checker
Enter a URL and we'll follow every redirect it takes.
Follows a URL through every redirect and reports each hop with its status code. Long chains waste crawl budget and slow first paint; loops break the page entirely.
How it works
- 1
We request the URL without following redirects, and read the Location header.
- 2
Each hop is followed manually, up to ten, recording the status code every time.
- 3
Repeated URLs are detected as a loop rather than followed forever.
Questions about this tool
- How many redirects is too many?
- More than two. Each hop is a round trip before anything renders, and crawlers give up on long chains. Point the first URL directly at the last.
- 301 or 302?
- 301 or 308 for a permanent move — they consolidate ranking signals onto the target. 302 and 307 tell search engines the original will be back, so signals stay with the old URL.
- Why does my browser not show this?
- Browsers follow redirects silently and show you only the destination. The chain is invisible unless you look at the network tab or use a tool like this one.
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