Trace every 301, 302, and 307 hop a URL takes before it lands — and catch loops and HTTP→HTTPS jumps that quietly cost you SEO
Redirect chains are one piece of technical SEO — run a complete audit to check speed, mobile-friendliness, broken links, and more.
Run Free Website AuditEvery hop a URL takes before landing on its final page — each 301, 302, 303, 307, or 308 — adds latency, can leak a small amount of link equity, and occasionally breaks entirely when a chain loops back on itself or dead-ends in an error. Browsers hide all of this: they just quietly follow the trail and show you the final page, so a URL that takes five hops to resolve looks identical to one that resolves instantly. This tool does what a browser won't: it walks the chain one hop at a time, without following redirects automatically, and reports every URL, status code, and response time along the way. It flags redirect loops (a chain that points back to a URL it already visited), chains that mix HTTP and HTTPS, and chains that end in a 4xx or 5xx error instead of live content. It pairs naturally with the Broken Link Checker — that tool tells you a link is broken or redirecting, this one tells you exactly how and why.