URL redirect checker

Free URL Redirect Checker — Trace 301 and 302 Redirects

This tool follows a URL through every redirect it passes through — up to 10 hops — and shows you the full path and the status code at each step. Enter any URL and you'll see exactly where it ends up and whether each redirect is a permanent 301 or a temporary 302.

Redirects are everywhere and easy to get wrong, and the mistakes cost SEO. The 301 vs 302 distinction matters: a 301 (permanent) passes ranking signals to the destination, while a 302 (temporary) tells Google to keep the original indexed — so a 302 used where a 301 belongs can strand your authority on the old URL. Redirect chains are the other common problem: each extra hop adds latency and dilutes signals, and long chains can exceed what crawlers will follow, leaving the final page undiscovered.

Use this tool to confirm your redirects use the right status code, to find and flatten redirect chains into a single hop, to verify that an old URL points to the correct new one after a migration, and to check that HTTP correctly redirects to HTTPS. Clean, single-step 301s preserve the most ranking value — this tool shows you whether yours measure up.

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