The Redirect Chain Checker follows every URL through its hop chain and reports back the issues — multi-hop chains, redirect loops, wrong status codes (302 where 301 should be), HTTPS upgrade gaps, www/non-www inconsistencies, and CDN-vs-origin redirect collisions. Each adds latency and bleeds link equity. This index covers exactly how to fix every category.
Every chain finding falls into one of these. Pick yours below:
/old → /middle → /new resolves in three hops instead of one. Each hop drops a small amount of link equity and slows the user. How to collapse to a single 301, audit the full chain history, and prevent it happening again.http:// → https://www. → https:// three-hop pattern. Force HTTPS at the edge (Cloudflare, nginx, Apache) instead of chaining. Also: HSTS to prevent the redirect being needed at all.www.example.com and example.com serving content as separate sites. Pick one canonical, 301 the other, update Google Search Console property, fix internal links and the sitemap./about and /about/ treated as different URLs. Pick one convention, enforce server-side with a 301, update all internal links to match. The exception: file extensions like .html never get a trailing slash.upgrade-insecure-requests.How redirects are configured depends on your hosting and CMS:
RewriteRule patterns for Apache, return 301 for nginx, the regex pitfalls that cause loops, and the difference between permanent and redirect flags.The checker follows every URL through its full hop chain, recording each status code, each Location header, and each latency hop. It flags chains over two hops, loops, 302s that should be 301s, HTTPS-upgrade gaps and mixed-content during redirect. For the complete reference, see the Redirect Checker Guide or sample report.
Audit your live URLs and get the full chain list. Fix the worst chains first — usually the homepage and top traffic pages.
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