What is the redirect checker for
Identify URLs resulting in redirects within the internal link graph of your website
Find incoming links and outgoing links for URLs resulting in a redirect
Debug complex problems like redirect chains, redirect loops or invalid locations
Detect redirects resulting in protocol changes, host changes or to external URLs
Optimize the crawling of your website by discovering and eliminating unnecessary redirects
Our redirect validator checks for common errors and optimization potential related to redirects. The elimination of internal redirects can have a huge impact on pagespeed as it eliminates unnecessary requests.
Redirect features for complex websites
Redirects by HTTP status code
All redirects linked within the internal linkgraph are automatically discovered and listed with their HTTP status code (e.g. 301, 302, 303, 307, 308).
Reports for redirect chains
Redirect chains are automatically detected by the redirect chain checker and URLs are marked as start of the chain, destination and with a level that indicates the depth of the chain.
Detection of redirect loops
If a redirect loop is discovered all URLs that form the loop are marked and the entrance point of the loop is marked as such as well by the redirect loop checker.
Analyze PageRank waste by redirects
Review how much PageRank is wasted and tied to bad usage of redirects. Visualize the impact via the PageRank flow analysis.
Check a redirect implementation
Find malformed redirect targets
Get a list of all redirects that are broken, because they have a malformed URL as target.
Identify protocol and host changes
Discover redirects that are a protocol or host change and where latencies could be avoided by directly linking to the correct host or protocol.
Measure latencies of redirects
Response times are measured for all URLs of the website by the URL redirect checker and can be used to detect and eliminate slow redirects.
Use HTML or XML sitemaps to check redirects
Check lists of known redirect URLs by using HTML or XML sitemaps as starting point for a crawl.