Skip to content
Website tools

Redirect Checker

Follow a redirect chain hop by hop and find loops or extra steps.

Public pages only. Toolspea fetches the page for you because a browser tab cannot read another origin directly — nothing you enter is stored.

What is Redirect Checker?

Redirect Checker follows a URL through every redirect it issues, listing each hop with its status code and destination, then shows the response headers of the final URL so you can confirm the chain ends where it should.

How to use it

  1. 1Paste the starting URL.
  2. 2Run the trace.
  3. 3Read each hop in order.
  4. 4Confirm the final URL and status.

Features

  • Hop-by-hop chain with status codes
  • Detects long chains that waste crawl budget
  • Shows the final response headers

When people use it

Migration checks

Verify old URLs land on the right new page in one hop instead of three.

Campaign links

Trace a shortened tracking link to its real destination before publishing it.

Known limits

  • Redirects issued by client-side JavaScript or meta refresh are not followed — only HTTP redirects are.

Redirect Checker questions

Related tools

Hand-picked hubs, guides and companion tools related to this page.

Last reviewed 2026-08-15. Browse the full directory.