Redirect Chain Checker
Analyze redirect chains with latency tracking and SEO impact analysis.
Redirect Checker for All Four Domain Versions
Enter a domain and we test all four canonical versions: http, https, www and non-www. You get the full redirect chain for each one, showing every hop's from-URL, to-URL and HTTP status code. Free, no signup, results in seconds.
What does a redirect checker do?
A redirect checker follows a URL through every redirect it passes through and reports each hop with its status code. This one tests all four versions of a domain at once: http, https, www and non-www. That shows whether all four end at a single address, how many hops it takes, and whether each hop uses the right status code.
Your homepage has four possible addresses
Every domain can be reached four ways, and each one is a different URL as far as a crawler is concerned. Three of them should redirect to the fourth. When they do not, you have one business with four homepages competing with each other.
http versus https
If the insecure http version still answers with a 200 instead of redirecting, you have a duplicate of your entire site sitting on the wrong protocol. This happens most often after an SSL certificate is added but the server rule is never written.
www versus non-www
Google has no preference between them. What matters is that you pick one and the other redirects to it. Split sites usually come from a host default fighting a WordPress setting, and nobody notices because both versions look perfectly normal in a browser.
When all four answer
Links, shares and citations get spread across four addresses instead of accumulating on one. Google will usually work out which you meant, but it is guessing, and you have handed it a puzzle instead of an answer. This is a ten-minute fix at the server.
One-line fixes for the usual setups
The rules that send all four versions to a single address.
Two hops where one would do
A chain is when a URL redirects to another URL that redirects again: http to https to www to the final page. Google's crawlers follow up to ten redirect hops by default, and if the content is not reached within that, the URL is treated as an error and not indexed. Ten is the ceiling, not the target. Every extra hop is another request and another wait for the visitor.
A 302 where a 301 belongs
The status code tells Google what the redirect means, and the difference is not cosmetic. Google's documentation is explicit: permanent redirects tell it to show the new URL in results, temporary ones tell it to keep showing the old one.
Permanent: 301 and 308
Google uses these as a strong signal that the target should be the canonical URL. Use them whenever you are confident the redirect will not be reverted. A permanent move served as a temporary redirect is one of the most common reasons a site move stalls halfway.
Temporary: 302, 303 and 307
Google follows these but treats them as a weak signal and keeps the original URL in results. That is right for a page that is genuinely coming back, such as a service paused for a month. It is wrong for a page you have retired for good.
Redirect Checker FAQ
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