Website Tools
Redirect Checker
Check whether a website redirects and where it ends up.
Enter a domain to check whether it redirects and where it ends up.
JustChecker monitors your websites around the clock and alerts you the instant something changes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Each hop is one redirect leading to another URL before reaching the final destination - a chain of several hops (e.g. http to https to www to a final page) adds latency on every visit and is worth flattening into a single, direct redirect where possible.
Search engines generally follow redirect chains, but each additional hop adds crawl overhead and can dilute how efficiently ranking signals pass through - a single, direct redirect to the final URL is the best practice.
A chain eventually reaches a final destination; a loop redirects back to a URL already visited earlier in the sequence, never resolving - loops are always a configuration error and typically show as an error in every browser.
This is standard, recommended practice - it ensures visitors always end up on the encrypted, secure version of your site even if they type or click a plain http link, and is required for full HTTPS enforcement.
Best practice is picking one canonical version (either www or non-www) and redirecting the other to it - having both serve identical content without a redirect can create duplicate-content confusion for search engines.
Extremely long chains can hit a browser's built-in maximum-redirect limit, causing the page to fail to load entirely for those visitors - a rare but real consequence of accumulated, unflattened redirects over time.