Redirect Checker

Redirect Checker follows every hop in a redirect chain from a starting URL through to wherever it actually ends up, showing the status code and address at each step along the way.

Run this after setting up a new redirect to confirm it points where intended, when investigating why a page loads more slowly than expected, or when cleaning up old links that have accumulated an unnecessarily long chain over several migrations.

Each additional hop costs a full extra round trip before the final content ever starts loading, so a chain longer than one or two redirects is usually worth shortening directly at the source rather than leaving in place.