Redirect Analyzer
A redirect-chain diagnostic workbench — every hop, status code, timing, and destination, with configuration guidance. No account required.
Redirect Chain Trace
This tool performs a series of external HTTP requests to the public website you submit, following redirects up to 10 hops and re-validating each destination before requesting it. It does not authenticate to the target, scan private or internal networks, or perform a penetration test. IT KORR's own domains and infrastructure cannot be scanned with this tool.
What To Look For
Reading Your Redirect Chain
Five patterns that come up most often when reviewing a redirect chain.
Signal
What good looks like
No Redirects
The URL resolves directly — nothing to fix.
HTTP → HTTPS Upgrade
A single redirect moving plain HTTP to HTTPS is standard, healthy configuration.
Single Redirect
Generally healthy — verify it's intentional and lands on the URL you expect.
Multi-Hop Chain
Each extra hop adds latency and can dilute SEO signal consolidation — worth collapsing to one hop where possible.
Redirect Loop
The chain never reaches a final destination — this is a real configuration bug that needs fixing.
Unexpected Destination
The final URL doesn't match what you expected — check for stale redirect rules or a misconfigured rewrite.
No Redirects
The URL resolves directly — nothing to fix.
HTTP → HTTPS Upgrade
A single redirect moving plain HTTP to HTTPS is standard, healthy configuration.
Single Redirect
Generally healthy — verify it's intentional and lands on the URL you expect.
Multi-Hop Chain
Each extra hop adds latency and can dilute SEO signal consolidation — worth collapsing to one hop where possible.
Redirect Loop
The chain never reaches a final destination — this is a real configuration bug that needs fixing.
Unexpected Destination
The final URL doesn't match what you expected — check for stale redirect rules or a misconfigured rewrite.
How It Works
What this tool does with your input
How this tool works, and what happens to what you enter
- You
You enter a domain or URL
One field. No account, no email required to run it.
- The tool
IT KORR reads the public record
The lookup runs server-side against publicly published DNS, TLS and HTTP data. The target is validated before any request is made.
- You
You get findings you can act on
What is wrong, why it matters operationally, and what to change — not a score.
Understanding Your Results
Performance and Configuration, Not Just Security
Redirect chains are primarily a performance, SEO, and configuration hygiene concern — not every multi-hop chain is a serious security vulnerability. Use this tool to confirm a URL resolves the way you expect, identify unnecessary hops worth collapsing, and catch loops or misconfigurations before they affect users or search engine crawlers.
FAQ
Common Questions
What does this tool actually do?
It requests the URL you submit and, for each redirect response (301, 302, 303, 307, or 308) it receives, follows the Location header to the next URL — revalidating and re-requesting each destination in turn — until it reaches a non-redirect response or a safe limit of 10 hops.
Is a multi-hop redirect chain automatically a security problem?
No. Multiple redirects are primarily a performance, SEO, and configuration hygiene issue — each hop adds a network round-trip and can complicate how search engines consolidate ranking signals. It becomes a bigger concern mainly when the chain is long, unnecessary, or redirects somewhere unexpected.
What happens if a redirect points to a private or blocked address?
The tool stops immediately and returns a safe error rather than following it — it never requests a private, internal, reserved, or IT KORR-owned destination, even mid-chain. Any hops successfully traced before that point are still shown.
What counts as a redirect loop?
If the chain returns to a URL it has already visited without reaching a final destination, the tool detects this and stops with a clear "redirect loop detected" message instead of retrying indefinitely.
Can this tool trace redirects on IT KORR's own website or internal/private networks?
No. IT KORR domains and infrastructure are blocked at the platform level, and only publicly routable internet targets can be traced — private, internal, loopback, link-local, and reserved address ranges are all rejected before any request is made, at every hop.
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Operational Support
Need help cleaning up your redirect configuration?
IT KORR can review your site's redirect rules, DNS, and web configuration as part of ongoing managed IT operations.
No commitment required — we respond within one business day.