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URL Redirect Analyzer

See the complete journey from a starting URL to its final destination. Inspect every status code, discover redirect loops, and compare canonical URLs with confidence.

✓ Step-by-step chains✓ Canonical audits✓ Batch analysis

Redirect workspace

Enter URLs, connect a tracing service, then inspect the route.

No automatic URL submission
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URLs to inspect

A missing scheme defaults to HTTPS. Query parameters may contain private information; only send URLs you intend to share with the endpoint.

UNDERSTAND EVERY HOP

A clearer way to debug redirects

Designed for site migrations, SEO checks, domain changes and troubleshooting unexpected destinations.

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Trace the full path

Review each HTTP response, its status, Location header and time measured by your tracing endpoint. Relative locations are resolved to absolute addresses.

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Find redirect problems

Detect loops, excessive hops, missing destinations, insecure HTTPS downgrades and broken final pages before they affect visitors.

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Compare canonical hints

Inspect the final URL alongside HTTP Link and HTML canonical declarations, title, headers and Refresh hints. Canonicals are not HTTP redirects.

FAQ

Answers before you analyze

Understand the limits and behavior of network-level tracing.

Can this detect all kinds of redirects?

The endpoint follows HTTP 301, 302, 303, 307 and 308 Location responses. It reports Refresh hints but does not execute JavaScript, browser navigation, cookies or login flows. HSTS upgrades performed by your browser may differ.

Why can’t a static web page trace every URL directly?

The Fetch API filters cross-origin redirect responses and hides intermediate status and Location information. A server-side endpoint can request the hops separately. The page remains static, but live tracing depends on that service.

What does a canonical mismatch mean?

A canonical URL suggests the preferred indexed version of a page; it does not redirect visitors. A mismatch may be intentional. Inspect your site’s canonical strategy rather than treating all differences as errors.

Is this private and accurate?

Example mode uses no network. Live mode shares submitted URLs with your chosen tracing service. Timings reflect its location and its GET or HEAD request, not your browser. Protected pages, geolocation, bot controls and cookies can change outcomes.

Using URL Redirect Analyzer

Review redirect chains through a separately configured tracing endpoint, distinguish live traces from simulated examples, and export the captured response data.

Workflow

  1. Choose an explicitly configured endpoint and check its health and token requirements
  2. submit up to five URLs and review status and hop limits
  3. export the result and distinguish endpoint observations from simulated examples.

Example

Use a known URL against your approved tracing endpoint, review each returned hop and status, then export the trace with endpoint context for your records.

Limits and data handling

Live tracing requires a separately operated endpoint; the public integration does not provide or operate a hosted proxy. Submitted URLs and tokens go to the endpoint you choose. Tokens are not stored and endpoint persistence is opt-in. Demo-mode results are simulated. Canonical and Refresh hints are not followed redirects and are not indexing evidence. Endpoint authentication, quotas, CORS and outbound access are outside this source-only review.

FAQs

Can this page trace a URL without an endpoint?

No. Without an operated compatible endpoint, the example is simulated and is not a live trace.

Are canonical or Refresh hints additional HTTP redirects?

No. They are reported hints and the analyzer does not follow them as redirect hops.

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