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Redirect Chain Checker
Follow each redirect hop, expose loops and long chains, and show the final response before a launch or migration.
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What the result includes—and what it does not
Built for developers and SEO teams verifying redirects before or after a URL or domain migration.
Calculation method
- 1Request every supplied old URL without automatically hiding redirects.
- 2Resolve each Location header, validate the next public destination and record the status at every hop.
- 3Flag extra hops, loops, unreachable targets and final errors; export the requested-to-final inventory for review.
Assumptions and limits
- The checker follows responses but does not publish, modify or infer a complete server redirect configuration.
- A permanent code alone does not prove that the destination is relevant to the old content.
- URLs can behave differently for other locations, cookies or bot rules.
Worked example
Old product URLs after a domain move
Input: Fifty old URLs plus the new production domain.
Output: Every hop, final status and destination, with chains grouped as warnings and broken final targets as critical issues.
Primary sources
- Google Search — Crawling and indexingPrimary documentation for crawl access, indexability signals, canonicals, sitemaps, redirects and JavaScript search behavior.
- Google Search — robots.txtExplains that robots.txt primarily controls crawling and is not a guaranteed removal mechanism.
- Google Search — Canonical URLsOfficial guidance for canonical signals and duplicate URL consolidation.
- Sitemaps protocolOpen protocol for sitemap XML, sitemap indexes and loc elements.
- Google Search — RedirectsOfficial guidance for permanent and temporary redirects in search migrations.
How to use it
From public URL to verified release.
- 1Choose the release mission and declare whether the scope should be public.
- 2Keep the page open while respectful batches read public HTML and cross page signals.
- 3Export the evidence, deploy the fix, then load the project to verify the same scope.
Built for trust
Evidence without a false promise.
- No registration or paywall before your result.
- Only public URLs are fetched; HTML is not written into the project.
- Ready to ship describes the checked scope; it never guarantees indexing or ranking.
Frequently asked questions
How many redirect hops should a URL use?
The cleanest release points the old URL directly at the final relevant destination. A browser can follow more, but every additional hop adds latency and another configuration that can fail.
Can this find a redirect loop?
Yes. The fetcher follows redirects manually with a strict hop limit and validates every destination. A loop or exceeded limit returns a failed page with the chain already collected as evidence.
Does the tool create redirect rules automatically?
No. It proves how live URLs behave. Automatic deployment would be unsafe without knowing server precedence and content correspondence; any rule generated later must remain reviewable and tested.
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