Redirect Checker

It requests your URL without following redirects, records the status code and Location header, then repeats the process for each hop. The result is the full chain — every intermediate URL between the link you paste and the page a visitor finally lands on.

A 301 is a permanent redirect: search engines pass ranking signals to the destination and update their index. A 302 (and 307) is temporary: the original URL keeps the ranking. Affiliate and tracking links normally use 302 so the destination is not indexed in place of the source.

Long redirect chains lose parameters, slow the landing page down and sometimes drop the click ID entirely. Tracing the chain shows exactly which hop strips your tokens, whether the final URL is what the network promised, and how many redirects sit between the ad and the offer.

Each hop adds latency and another chance to break attribution. Two or three is normal for a tracker plus network link. Beyond that you are usually paying for load time you do not need — and mobile users feel it first.

No. The checker follows HTTP-level redirects (3xx status codes with a Location header). Client-side redirects done in JavaScript or with a meta refresh tag will show up as a 200 response, because that is what the server actually returns.

The chain stops after 10 hops, each request times out after 8 seconds, and only public http/https addresses are traced — private, internal and loopback addresses are blocked for security.