The Redirect Checker is a free tool from Ergora for site owners that follows an address through every redirect, shows whether each is permanent or temporary and where it lands.
Enter an address. We follow it the way a browser does and show every redirect it passes through, whether each one is permanent or temporary, and where it finally lands.
Free, no sign-up. We fetch public pages only and store nothing.
Each redirect adds a round trip before anyone sees the page, and a chain of them is slower still. Search engines follow a limited number of hops and can drop signals along the way, so a long chain quietly wastes crawl budget and ranking strength.
A 301 tells search engines the move is permanent and passes the old page's ranking to the new one. A 302 says temporary, so the old URL stays indexed. Using the wrong one, or looping back on yourself, keeps the right page out of search.
A 301 is a permanent redirect: it passes ranking signals to the new URL and tells Google to index that one. A 302 is temporary: Google keeps the original indexed. Use a 301 for a move that is staying put.
Aim for one. Each hop adds delay, and long chains waste crawl budget and risk dropping signals. If the address you enter needs three or four hops to load, point it straight at the final one.
That is correct and expected: it sends visitors to the secure version of the page. This check marks an http to https upgrade as a pass, not a problem.
When two or more addresses point back at each other, so the page never loads. The browser follows the hops for a while, then gives up and shows an error. This check flags a loop as a failure.
Either works. Pick one as your canonical version, redirect the other to it with a 301, and use that version in your links and sitemap so the signals all point one way.
This is a one-off check. In Ergora the SEO specialist in the Content pack runs checks like this across every page, connects Search Console, and turns what it finds into fixes, briefs and posts that help you rank, week after week.