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Redirect Checker
Follow a URL's redirects to its final destination and flag chains, HTTP downgrades, and homepage redirects.
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What this redirect checker checks and how to act on it
A redirect checker requests a URL and follows its redirects to the final destination, reporting how many hops it took, whether HTTP was upgraded to HTTPS, whether the destination returns a live status, and whether the destination's canonical points somewhere else. Each extra hop is another round trip for users and crawlers, and Googlebot stops after ten.
The fixes are consistent: point every old URL directly at its final destination, use permanent redirects (301 or 308) for permanent moves, redirect to the closest equivalent page rather than the homepage, and update internal links and sitemaps so they never rely on a redirect. When we consolidated sixteen overlapping pages on serionflow.com, each retired URL was redirected in one hop to the section of the page that absorbed it.
How to use the redirect checker
- Enter the URL you want to test, including http:// or https://.
- The checker requests it and follows redirects to the final destination.
- Read the hop count, final URL, status, and canonical of the destination.
- Point old URLs straight at the final destination and update internal links to it.
What it does not check
- The status code of each intermediate hop; it reports the hop count and the final URL.
- Redirects that only happen in JavaScript after the page loads.
Read the guide
Step-by-step explanations of what this tool checks and how to fix what it finds.