Reachability

How to trace a redirect chain

A short link, http URL, or renamed page does not land where you expect. Trace it with Redirect Checker.

Each redirect hop has a status, a URL, and a Location, and the chain stops for a reason.
Each hop has a status, a URL, and a Location, and the chain stops because it finished, looped, or hit the hop limit.

What to run

Use Redirect Checker. The result is from Cloudflare.

How to read the result

Each hop has a status, a URL, and a Location.

The stopped reason says whether it finished on a non-redirect, hit a loop, or ran out of hops.

Three or four hops is common. More than that is a smell.

What to open next

Open HTTP Headers on the final URL. That result is from Cloudflare.

If the host on a hop looks wrong, open DNS Lookup. DNS Lookup is DNS-over-HTTPS from the browser and does not follow CNAMEs.