Check redirect

Why is redirect checking necessary?

Redirect checking is required for SEO optimization of a website. For example, you have connected an SSL certificate, after which the site becomes available both via HTTP and HTTPS protocols. Search engines will consider the sites duplicates, which will lower them in search results. You will need to set up a redirect from HTTP to HTTPS to eliminate site duplicates from the search engines' perspective.

The service is also useful when you need to check redirects from WWW to non-WWW, or from index.php to "/", or from a page with a trailing slash to a page without one, or any other variant. For all these cases, you can use the Redirect Tracker and get the entire chain of redirects.

How does redirect checking work?

1. Enter the page address.
2. Click the "Check" button.
3. The service will make a request to the page you entered and examine the server's response headers. If the server's response includes a redirect to another page, the service will make a request to it. And so on until there are no more redirects to other URLs.
4. You should understand that the service does not search for redirects on your site, but tracks the redirection of a specific page you entered and displays the entire chain of redirects starting from it and ending with the URL that no longer redirects anywhere.

Conclusions

With the help of Redirect Tracker, you will be able to track the chain of redirects that your page redirects to. It is advisable to set up redirects on the site in such a way that there is only one redirect between the initial and final URL.