Do your redirects actually resolve?
Paste a URL and we follow every redirect hop to where it really lands, and flag the loops and dead-ends that break the link entirely. Free, no signup.
What we check
We request the URL you submit and follow each redirect hop in order - 301, 302, meta refresh, the whole chain - until it lands on a final page. We flag the chain when it loops back on itself, and when it never resolves because there are too many hops to complete.
This traces the redirects for the single URL you give us. We follow the same hops a browser and a search crawler would; we don't crawl every link on your site, just the path this one URL takes to its destination.
Why it matters
Redirects are invisible until one goes wrong, and then it takes the link down with it. A loop (A sends to B sends back to A) hands every visitor a 'too many redirects' error instead of your page. A chain that's grown too long to resolve does the same thing, and even a working-but-bloated chain leaks speed and SEO link equity at every hop.
These break in undramatic ways: a forgotten rule from a migration, an http-to-https hop stacked on a www hop stacked on a trailing-slash hop. Nothing errors on your end - the redirect 'works,' it just works wrong. Tracing the chain shows you whether it actually lands, so a broken redirect stops being a guess.
Questions
What redirect problems do you flag?
Redirect loops (the chain points back at itself and never resolves) and chains with too many hops to complete - the two failures that hand your visitor a 'too many redirects' error instead of your page. We follow the hops the way a browser does.
Is it bad that my URL redirects at all?
Not necessarily. An http-to-https redirect, or a trailing-slash normalization, is normal and healthy. A single clean hop to your canonical URL is fine. Loops and chains too long to resolve are the ones that actually break the link.
Do you check redirects across my whole site?
No. We trace the redirect chain for the single URL you paste, following its hops to the final destination. We don't crawl every URL on your site - give us the specific link you want to trace.
Is it really free?
Yes. Paste a URL and run it, no account needed. The same scan also runs all of CopyMosaic's other checks, and you can open the full report to see them.