Redirect chain checker
A silent follow only shows the last URL. This checker shows the path: 301 → 302 → 200. Long chains waste crawl budget and drop referrers. A hop to a private or metadata address is refused and is not fetched.
What we measure
Up to ten hops. Relative Location is resolved against the current hop. javascript: and non-http(s) targets abort the chain. A loop is an error, not a long success.
The report lists status per hop. We never store a blocked Location (nothing like 169.254 ends up in the JSON). The final document, if we got one, is the same HTML the rest of the audit uses.
How to flatten it
One 301 from the old address to the canonical. Do not stack http→https, www→apex and trailing-slash as three separate hops if you can collapse them.
This is not the HTTP status tool. That one tells you the final code. This one tells you how expensive it was to get there.
See the full audit in your workspace