Redirect Checker

Redirects are a normal part of web infrastructure — used for moving content, consolidating URLs, forcing HTTPS, and handling domain changes. But redirects can also accumulate into chains that slow down page loading, confuse search engine crawlers, or silently break the link equity you've built up over time. Redirect Checker maps out the complete redirect path from any starting URL to its final destination.

A single 301 redirect is clean and efficient. Two or three redirects in a chain are tolerable. Longer chains add latency on every request and dilute the PageRank passed through each hop. When you see a page loading slowly despite having fast server response times, an unnoticed redirect chain is often part of the explanation.

For SEO work, redirects are particularly consequential. A 301 redirect should pass link equity from the old URL to the new one — but the path matters. If an old URL redirects to a temporary 302 before eventually landing on the permanent destination, the signal sent to search engines is muddier than a clean 301 directly to the final URL. Redirect Checker shows you each step, the status code at each hop, and the final landing URL.

Post-migration audits rely heavily on redirect verification. After a site redesign or domain change, checking that old URLs are correctly redirecting to their new equivalents — and that the redirect path is as short as possible — is a necessary part of protecting organic search performance. Running a set of key URLs through Redirect Checker is faster and more reliable than manually testing each one in a browser.