Paste a URL and this tool walks every redirect hop on your homepage and internal links, one step at a time — not just the final destination. It flags loops, multi-hop chains, and redirects that don't resolve, so you can point links straight at the page they should have gone to in the first place.
What tracing every hop in a redirect chain actually gets you.
See every hop between the link you started with and where it actually ends up, in the order the browser would follow it — not just the final URL.
Catches redirect loops that never resolve, along with 3xx responses that point at a dead or unreachable destination.
Each extra hop adds latency before the page even starts loading. Flattening a 3-hop chain to a single redirect is a quick, measurable speed win.
Runs from a plain URL with no account, no API key, and no rate-limit dashboard to configure first.
Beyond the homepage itself, it follows the internal links found on it — so redirects buried a click or two deep don't stay invisible.
Every flagged result comes with a specific suggestion — repoint a long chain, or fix a redirect that never lands — not just a raw status code.
Still deciding? Here's what people usually ask before running this scan.
A redirect chain happens when URL A redirects to URL B, which then redirects to URL C, and so on, before a visitor or crawler finally reaches a page that loads normally. Each extra hop adds a round-trip of latency and makes the path harder for search engines to follow.
Long chains slow down crawling and can dilute the ranking signals a link was supposed to pass along. A redirect that loops back on itself, or one that dead-ends, can stop a crawler from reaching the page entirely.
Yes — it walks up to 8 hops per link and records the status code at each step, so you can see exactly where a chain starts, where it bends, and where it finally lands (or fails to).
Yes. It records the exact HTTP status at each hop, whether that's a 301 permanent redirect, a 302 or 307 temporary one, or anything else in the 3xx range.
Yes — after scanning your homepage, the tool follows the internal links found on it too, up to a safe limit per scan, so redirects on pages beyond the homepage get checked as well.
There's no hard rule, but anything past two hops is worth fixing. If a chain is 3+ hops long, the tool flags it and suggests pointing the original link directly at the final URL.
No — the tool only detects and reports the loop. Fixing it means going into your server config, CMS redirect rules, or .htaccess file and removing whichever rule sends the URL back to itself.
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