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The SEO Tool for Checking HTTP Headers and Redirects Redirect URL for Google Chrome™ – The SEO Tool for Checking HTTP Headers and Redirects Ever landed on a page and wondered how you actually got there? Behind almost every click there can be a hidden chain of hops: a 301 Permanent Redirect, a 302 Found, a 307 Temporary Redirect, a meta refresh tag, or a JavaScript redirect that quietly moves you to another address. For SEO professionals, web developers and site owners, those invisible hops affect crawl budget, link equity, page speed, tracking accuracy and, ultimately, how your site ranks. Redirect URL for Google Chrome™ makes the whole journey visible in a single click. WHAT IT DOES Redirect URL runs silently in the background and records every redirect that happens while a page loads. As soon as a redirect is detected, the toolbar icon lights up and shows a badge with the HTTP status code of the first hop, so you know at a glance that something happened before the page you are looking at was served. Click the icon and the popup lays out the complete redirect path from the original URL to the final destination, step by step and in the exact order the browser followed it. Each hop shows the full URL and the HTTP status code returned by the server, or a clear label when the redirect was triggered on the client side by a meta refresh tag or by JavaScript. Expand any hop to inspect the raw response headers, including Location, Cache-Control, Content-Type, Set-Cookie, X-Robots-Tag and any custom headers your CDN adds. KEY FEATURES • Complete redirect chain tracing: follow 301, 302, 303, 307 and 308 server-side redirects from start to finish, including multi-hop chains and redirect loops. • Meta refresh detection: catches HTML meta refresh redirects, including their delay timer and target URL. • JavaScript redirect detection: spots client-side redirects that traditional HTTP-only tools miss entirely. • Full HTTP response headers: one click reveals the headers of every hop in the path, not just the final page. • Status badge on the toolbar icon: see the status code instantly without opening anything. • HSTS awareness: when Chrome performs an internal 307 redirect from HTTP to HTTPS because of a cached HSTS policy, the extension explains what happened and why no server was contacted, so you are never misled by a code that looks like a temporary redirect. • Copy to clipboard: export the entire redirect path as CSV with a single click and paste it straight into a spreadsheet, a ticket or a client report. • Per-tab tracking: every tab keeps its own redirect history, so you can compare several URLs side by side. • Available in more than 40 languages with a clean, modern interface that fits naturally into Chrome. WHO IT IS FOR SEO specialists use Redirect URL to audit site migrations, verify that old URLs point to the right new pages with a permanent 301 rather than a temporary 302, and hunt down chains that leak link equity. Web developers use it to debug routing rules, canonicalisation logic and HTTPS enforcement without leaving the browser. Marketing teams use it to check that campaign links and affiliate tracking links resolve where they should and that UTM parameters survive the trip. QA engineers use it to reproduce reports of broken links in seconds. WHY REDIRECTS MATTER FOR SEO Search engines follow redirects, but every extra hop costs crawl budget and can dilute the signals passed to the destination page. Long chains, loops and mixed use of temporary and permanent redirects are among the most common technical SEO problems, and they are hard to see because the browser hides them. With the path and headers in front of you, you can fix issues before they cost you rankings. PRIVACY AND PERFORMANCE Redirect URL only observes navigation events in your own browser and keeps redirect data locally, per tab. Nothing is uploaded to external servers, there are no accounts to create and no configuration is required. Built on Manifest V3 with a lightweight service worker, it uses minimal memory and has no measurable impact on browsing speed. Note: Chrome does not expose redirect or request data for local pages such as localhost or file URLs, for Chrome internal pages, or for tabs that were already open before the extension was installed or updated. Simply open a new tab or refresh the page and the redirect path will be captured. HOW TO USE 1. Install the extension and pin the icon to your toolbar. 2. Visit any URL. If a redirect occurs, the icon changes and a status code badge appears. 3. Click the icon to see the full path from the original address to the final page. 4. Click any hop to expand its HTTP response headers. 5. Use Copy to Clipboard to export the path as CSV for reports or bug tickets. Stop guessing where your links go. Install Redirect URL for Google Chrome™ and see every redirect, every header and every hop, right when you need it.