www Redirect Checker
About www Redirect Checker
Our Redirect Checker follows any URL through all its redirects and displays the complete redirect chain, including the HTTP status code at each step. This helps you identify redirect loops, unnecessary redirect hops, and whether your redirects are the correct type (301 permanent vs 302 temporary).
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Redirect chains and loops can significantly slow down your website and dilute link equity. Each additional redirect in a chain costs page load time and passes less SEO value to the final destination page.
Redirect Issues That Hurt SEO
- Redirect chains (multiple hops) slow page speed
- 302 temporary redirects don't pass full link equity
- Redirect loops cause pages to be inaccessible
- Incorrect redirects after site migrations lose rankings
How to Use the Redirect Checker
- Enter the starting URL you want to trace, including the protocol (http or https).
- Run the check to have the tool follow every hop from that starting point to the final destination.
- Read the step-by-step list of each redirect, along with its HTTP status code (301, 302, 307, etc.).
- Flag any chain longer than one or two hops, or any step returning an unexpected status code.
- Update your server-side redirect rules to shorten the chain and point directly to the final URL.
Who Uses This Tool: SEO consultants use it during technical audits to catch redirect chains left over from old site migrations. Developers use it to confirm a new 301 rule actually resolves to the intended page rather than looping back through an old one. Affiliate marketers and link builders use it to verify that tracking or shortened links deliver visitors to the correct final page without excessive hops.
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Frequently asked questions
Is the WWW Redirect Checker free?
This tool requires an active one-time membership to use - pay once and unlock this tool plus every other gated tool on the site, no subscription, no ads.
Why does it matter whether www and non-www both redirect to one version?
Without a proper redirect, search engines can treat www.yoursite.com and yoursite.com as two separate sites, splitting your SEO authority and creating duplicate-content issues. A single canonical version should always be enforced.
What type of redirect should I use for this?
A 301 (permanent) redirect is correct for consolidating www and non-www versions - it passes nearly all SEO value to the destination and tells search engines the change is permanent.
