Redirect Checker Agent

Redirect Checker – Analyze URL Redirects, Status Codes & Redirect Chains

The Redirect Checker Tool helps you test, track, and analyze how a URL redirects from one location to another. It reveals the entire redirect path, including HTTP status codes like 301, 302, 307, and 308, along with meta refresh and JavaScript-based redirects.

This tool is essential for SEO audits, website migrations, HTTPS enforcement, canonical URL checks, and performance optimization.

What Is a Redirect Checker?

A Redirect Checker is a diagnostic tool that follows a URL step by step and shows how it redirects before reaching its final destination. It exposes:

• HTTP status codes returned at each step
• Redirect chains and loops
• www vs non-www behavior
• HTTP → HTTPS redirection
• Temporary vs permanent redirects
• Header-level redirect signals

This visibility is critical for search engines, browsers, and real users.

Why Use a Redirect Checker?

Incorrect redirects can silently damage SEO, slow down page speed, and confuse users.

Use this tool to:

• Detect 301 vs 302 redirect mistakes
• Identify redirect chains and loops
• Prevent loss of SEO link equity
• Validate HTTPS migrations
• Test redirects for desktop, mobile, and bot user-agents
• Debug broken or slow redirects
• Ensure canonical URL consistency
• Analyze server headers related to redirects

Key Features

• 🔁 Full redirect chain analysis (multiple hops)
• 📊 HTTP status code detection (200, 301, 302, 307, 308, 404, 500)
• 🤖 User-Agent testing (browser, mobile, search engine bots)
• 🔐 HTTPS & SSL redirect validation
• 🧠 Detects:
  • Meta refresh redirects
  • JavaScript-based redirects
• 🧾 Shows response headers (Location, Canonical, X-Robots-Tag)
• ⚡ Fast, accurate, real-time results
• 🆓 Free and browser-based

Common Redirect Types Explained

301 Redirect – Permanent

• Tells search engines the page has permanently moved
• Transfers SEO authority (link juice)
• Best for migrations, URL changes, canonical enforcement

302 Redirect – Temporary

• Indicates a short-term move
• Does not reliably pass SEO value
• Suitable for maintenance pages or testing

307 & 308 Redirects

• Modern HTTP/1.1 equivalents
• Preserve request methods
• Often used in advanced applications

How to Use the Redirect Checker

1. Enter the full URL
    (Include http:// or https://)
2. Choose optional settings:
   • User-Agent (browser, mobile, bot)
3. Click Check Redirects
4. Review:
   • Redirect chain
   • Status codes
   • Final destination
   • Headers and response behavior

SEO & Performance Benefits

Using a Redirect Checker helps you:

• Prevent redirect chains that slow page load
• Avoid redirect loops that block crawlers
• Ensure correct 301 usage for SEO
• Fix HTTP → HTTPS issues
• Enforce canonical URLs properly
• Improve crawl efficiency and indexing

Search engines prefer clean, single-step redirects—this tool helps you achieve exactly that.

Practical Use Cases

• 🔄 Website migrations & domain changes
• 🔐 HTTPS and SSL enforcement audits
• 📈 SEO technical audits
• 🧪 QA testing for redirect logic
• 🤖 Bot-specific redirect testing
• 🧭 Canonical URL validation
• 🚀 Performance optimization

Best Practices for Redirects

• Use 301 for permanent changes
• Avoid more than one redirect hop
• Eliminate redirect loops completely
• Redirect HTTP → HTTPS sitewide
• Keep www / non-www consistent
• Test redirects regularly after updates