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Redirect and header checker
See every hop a URL takes before it lands, with the status code and headers at each step. Redirect chains quietly bleed link equity and slow pages down.
Public websites only. We follow up to 10 hops and never download the page body.
The short guide
What to look for
301 means permanent, 302 means temporary. A 302 left in place for a year tells search engines to keep indexing the old URL. If the move is permanent, the redirect should be a 301.
Chains should be one hop. Every extra hop adds latency and is another place for something to break. The classic offender is http to https to www to the final page, three redirects where one would do. Fix it at the server so the first request lands on the destination.
Watch for a 200 that should be a redirect. If both the www and non-www versions return 200, you are serving the same content at two addresses and splitting your own signals.
Check the X-Robots-Tag. A noindex delivered in the header is invisible in the page source, and it is a genuinely common reason a page silently vanishes from search after a migration.
Migrating a site? Redirect mapping is a core part of our SEO work, and getting it wrong is the fastest way to lose rankings you spent years earning.
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Redesigning or migrating? Keep the rankings you earned.
We plan redirect maps before a new site goes live, collapse old chains into single hops and check every important URL lands where it should.
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