Free tool
Redirect Chain Checker
Trace every hop a URL takes before it lands. See each redirect's status code, count the hops, and catch loops and needlessly long chains. Free, no account needed.
Why redirect chains matter
Every redirect hop costs a full network round-trip before the visitor sees anything, and search engines pass less authority through each extra hop. A URL that goes http → https → www → final is three hops where one would do. Chains longer than two hops are worth fixing; loops — where a URL eventually redirects back to itself — break the page outright.
This checker requests your URL and follows the Location header manually, hop by hop, recording each status code along the way. 301 and 308 are permanent redirects (search engines transfer ranking signals); 302, 303, and 307 are temporary (they usually don't). Mixing them up is one of the most common causes of lost rankings after a site migration.
Redirects also change without anyone deciding they should: an expired plugin rule, a CDN misconfiguration, or a migration script can quietly re-route a money page to the homepage. MyKavo re-checks the redirect behavior of every monitored page on a schedule and alerts you when a destination or status unexpectedly changes.