What This Tool Checks
HeaderCheckr requests the URL, follows safe redirects, shows every hop, and reports the final destination or the redirect problem found.
Web Debugging
Redirect Chain Checker
Follow redirects, inspect status codes, detect loops, and confirm the final URL.
Guide
Redirect Chain Checks
Redirects are common, but long chains and loops slow pages down and can confuse crawlers, monitoring tools, and browser security checks.
This checker shows the actual path from the URL you enter to the final response, so you can clean up avoidable hops.
Why It Matters
Extra hops add latency. Conflicting HTTP, HTTPS, www, locale, and trailing slash rules can also create loops that stop users from reaching the site.
Search crawlers can handle normal redirects, but messy chains waste crawl time and make canonical URLs harder to reason about.
Related Tools
Once redirects land on the right page, check SSL certificate health, HTTP protocol support, and security headers.
FAQ
How many redirects are okay?
One intentional redirect is usually fine. Multiple hops are worth cleaning up when they come from overlapping CDN, server, or app rules.
What causes redirect loops?
Loops often happen when two layers disagree, such as a CDN forcing HTTPS while an origin redirects back to HTTP, or www rules pointing at each other.
Do redirects affect SEO?
They can. Search engines handle normal redirects well, but long chains waste crawl time and loops can prevent indexing.