Redirect checker (301/302) online
Extra or broken redirects slow your site down and hurt SEO. Enter an address to see the full redirect chain: every hop, its status code, loops and HTTPS loss.
What the redirect checker shows
The checker requests the address and follows every redirect step by step, the way a browser does, recording each hop: the address, the status code and where it points next. The result is the full chain from what you typed to the page that finally answers.
It flags the problems that cost speed and rankings: redirect loops, chains of more than two hops, a step from HTTPS back to HTTP, and chains that end on an unencrypted page. Each extra hop is a full round trip before the visitor sees anything, and search engines may stop following long chains.
Status codes in a redirect chain
- 301 and 308: permanent redirects. Use them for http to https and for www or non-www, so search engines move rankings to the new address.
- 302 and 307: temporary redirects. Fine for short-term moves, but search engines keep the old address indexed.
- Ideal chain: at most one hop, straight from any variant of the address to the final https page.
- Loop: the address eventually redirects back to itself and the browser shows ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS.
- HTTPS downgrade: a hop from https to http exposes the visitor and breaks the padlock.
Related errors and guides
- ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS: redirect loop
- How to redirect HTTP to HTTPS in .htaccess
- How to force HTTPS on the entire site
- WordPress login redirect loop
- www not working, only the bare domain
Frequently asked questions
- Should I redirect http to https and www to non-www in one step?
- Yes, ideally. Every variant (http://www, http://, https://www) should go to the final address with a single 301, not through a chain of two or three redirects.
- The checker shows no loop, but my browser does. Why?
- Our check sends no cookies. Loops that appear only when you are logged in, or only with a certain language or cookie, are created by the application, the WordPress login loop being the classic example.
- Do redirects hurt SEO?
- A single permanent redirect passes rankings to its target. What hurts is long chains, temporary codes used for permanent moves and redirects to pages that have nothing to do with the original.