Redirect Path Analyzer

Traces every hop of a redirect chain and reports its status code, headers, cookies, robots.txt verdict and canonical tag.

Redirect Path Analyzer helps SEO professionals, developers and website owners inspect the complete redirect path behind any URL. Open the extension on the current page, paste a URL or right-click any link to trace every redirect hop from the starting address to the final destination. Each step is displayed with technical and SEO signals that can help you identify redirect errors, indexing problems and unnecessary delays. Key Features Complete redirect-chain tracing View every URL in the redirect path instead of seeing only the final destination. Status codes and redirect types Identify 301, 302, 307, 308 and other HTTP responses, along with META refresh and detected JavaScript redirects. SEO directive analysis Check each hop for: robots.txt restrictions X-Robots-Tag headers Meta robots directives Noindex and nofollow rules Bot-specific crawler instructions Canonical tag checks Find HTML and HTTP-header canonical URLs. Redirect Path Analyzer can also test canonical destinations and flag broken, conflicting or redirecting canonicals. Performance details See the response time for every hop, its share of the total loading time and the cumulative duration of the redirect chain. Headers, cookies and server information Inspect response headers, Set-Cookie values, server IP addresses, content types, server details and cache information. Redirect issue detection Automatically highlight problems such as: Redirect loops Long redirect chains HTTPS-to-HTTP downgrades Cross-domain redirects Broken canonical URLs Conflicting canonicals Crawler blocking Noindex or nofollow directives Slow redirect hops Crawler testing Test URLs as a regular browser, Googlebot Desktop, Googlebot Smartphone, Bingbot or a custom User-Agent. Quick toolbar badge The extension badge displays the number of hops and uses a green, amber or red indicator based on the most serious finding. Flexible export options Copy the complete report to your clipboard or export the results as: Plain text CSV JSON Simple Ways to Analyze a URL Open any webpage and click the extension icon Paste a URL directly into the analyzer Right-click a link and select Analyze this link with Redirect Path Analyzer Re-trace a URL to bypass the cached result Useful For Redirect Path Analyzer is designed for: Technical SEO audits Website migrations Redirect debugging Canonical-tag validation Indexing investigations Link cleanup HTTP-header inspection Page-speed troubleshooting Developer quality assurance Privacy Analysis is processed locally in your browser. No account or cloud storage is required. The extension only sends requests needed to inspect the URLs being traced, their robots.txt files, canonical destinations and an optional metrics provider configured by the user. Requests are made without using your logged-in website credentials.