Long redirect chains and the wrong canonical leak crawl budget and link equity. Paste a URL — we follow every hop and read the final page's canonical tag.
A redirect checker traces every hop a URL takes — 301, 302 — from the address you enter to the page that actually loads, and reports the final canonical at the end of the chain. It flags redirect loops, chains longer than one hop, http→https upgrades, and cross-domain or cross-canonical jumps that quietly bleed link equity and slow down crawlers. Long or broken chains cost you: search bots may drop pages from the index, and AI engines resolving your URL can land on the wrong page — or nothing — and cite a competitor instead.
Each hop adds latency and can dilute the link equity reaching the final page, and Google may stop following after several hops, leaving the destination unindexed. Aim for a single 301 straight to the final URL.
Use 301 (permanent) when a URL has moved for good: it passes authority and tells engines to update their index. 302 (temporary) is for short-lived redirects; using it for a permanent move keeps the old URL indexed and leaks equity.
It's when the page you finally land on declares a rel=canonical pointing to yet another URL — so the redirect ends in one place but the canonical says the real page is elsewhere. That contradiction confuses which URL search and AI engines should index and cite.
When an AI engine resolves your link, a loop or broken chain can leave it with no reachable page, and a cross-canonical mismatch can send it to the wrong URL — so it cites a competitor whose path resolves cleanly. A single clean redirect to a self-consistent canonical keeps you the citable source.
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