Entrovix AI

Redirect Checker

Follows a redirect chain hop by hop with status codes and timings, and flags the specific mistakes that cost rankings — temporary redirects, needless chains, and redirects to the home page.

Follow a redirect chain

Every hop, its status code and how long it took — including the hops a browser hides from you.

Why use it

Built to be genuinely useful

Every hop, with timing

The full chain your browser hides, including how long each round trip took.

302 where 301 was meant

A temporary redirect tells Google to keep the old URL indexed and pass nothing on.

Catches the cPanel double hop

http→https then non-www→www as two separate rules — everywhere on shared hosting.

Flags redirects to the home page

Google treats these as soft 404s and passes no value at all.

How it works

Three steps

  1. 1

    Enter the URL to follow.

  2. 2

    See every hop with its status code.

  3. 3

    Read what each problem costs you.

301 and 302 are not interchangeable

A 301 says this has moved permanently: index the new URL, and pass the old page's accumulated ranking value to it. A 302 says this is temporary: keep the old URL indexed, and do not pass anything on.

Choosing wrong is expensive and invisible. A site migration done entirely with 302s looks perfect in a browser — every link goes to the right place — while Google keeps the old URLs in its index and passes nothing to the new ones. Traffic drops and nothing on the site appears broken.

This is one of the most common causes of a redesign losing traffic, and it survives because both codes work identically for a human visitor. Nothing except a checker will tell you.

Chains, and the Indian hosting default

Every hop is a full round trip before anything renders. Two hops on a mobile connection is a noticeable delay before the first byte of the actual page arrives, and Google stops following after roughly five.

The chain almost every site on shared hosting has: http://example.com → https://example.com → https://www.example.com. Two rules, added at different times by different people, each doing one job. Every visitor arriving from an old link, a printed URL or a WhatsApp forward pays both.

The fix is one rule going straight from http://example.com to https://www.example.com, keeping the intermediate rules for anything that still links to them. This tool detects the pattern specifically because it is so nearly universal.

Redirecting to the home page throws the value away

When a page is removed, the tempting move is to redirect it to the home page so nobody hits a 404. It feels tidy and it is usually the wrong call.

Google treats a redirect to an unrelated page — and the home page is unrelated to almost any specific page — as a soft 404. It passes none of the removed page's ranking value, and the visitor arriving from a search for something specific lands on a general page and leaves.

Redirect to the closest genuine equivalent instead. If there isn't one, returning 404 or 410 is more honest: Google drops the URL cleanly, and the rest of the site is judged on its own merits rather than on a pile of misleading redirects.

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