www Redirect Checker | Verify Website Redirect Configuration
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Trace every redirect, spot broken chains, and confirm your www vs non-www setup in seconds free and privacy-first.
Enter any URL below to trace its full redirect path, detect 301/302/307 status codes, and validate your www configuration.
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Every website answers to two versions of its address: the www version (like www.example.com) and the non-www version (example.com). Search engines and browsers treat these as two separate URLs unless you tell them otherwise.
That's where redirects come in. A proper redirect points one version to the other say, sending everyone who types example.com to www.example.com (or vice versa). This keeps your preferred domain consistent across every visit, link, and crawl. Setting up a clean redirect between these two versions is one of the most important technical steps for site health.
Get it wrong, and the costs add up quietly:
Split SEO equity. When both versions resolve independently, search engines may index them separately, diluting your rankings across duplicate pages.
Wasted crawl budget. Crawlers spend time re-reading the same content under two addresses instead of discovering new pages.
Broken canonical signals. Inconsistent redirects confuse the canonical version you're trying to establish, undermining your on-page SEO.
Slower load times. Long or looping redirect chains add round trips before a page ever renders.
A quick note on consistency: your preferred version www or non-www should be applied uniformly across redirects, canonical tags, internal links, and your sitemap. Mixed signals send mixed messages to search engines. This tool helps you confirm the redirect layer is doing its job.
Behind the scenes, the checker runs a high-speed request engine built for precision.
Key Features
Instant Redirect Tracing Follow the full redirect path step by step, with an average response time around 0.3 seconds.
Multi-Chain Detection Detect complex chains like 301 → 302 → 307 across up to 25 hops, so nothing hides deeper in the sequence.
www vs Non-www Validation Confirm that your preferred domain version resolves correctly and consistently on every request.
SEO Impact Insights See how a redirect configuration may affect crawl efficiency and ranking signals and quickly spot whether it's costing you equity.
Global URL Testing Check redirect behavior from multiple global endpoints to catch location-specific routing differences.
Secure & Private Checks No request logs, no tracking of the URLs you test checks run with a privacy-first design.
SEO Audits Surface redirect chains that quietly drain organic performance and consolidate duplicate URL versions. Redirect issues are among the most common and most overlooked causes of ranking drops.
Marketing Campaigns Confirm landing pages resolve correctly before ad spend goes live, so no click lands on a broken hop.
Developer QA Validate routing logic across staging and production environments before you ship, and confirm every route resolves cleanly rather than looping or chaining unnecessarily.
Site Migrations Verify 301 redirects during domain, HTTPS, or CMS changes so link equity carries over cleanly. Google treats a 301 as a permanent signal getting it right during migration protects your rankings.
Affiliate Tracking Inspect hidden redirects and tracking links to see exactly where a URL resolves.
It traces what happens when a URL is requested following each redirect hop, recording status codes and headers, and showing the final destination. This lets you confirm whether your www and non-www versions resolve to a single preferred address, with a clean chain from start to finish.
A 301 is permanent and passes ranking signals to the destination ideal for migrations. A 302 and 307 are temporary, meaning search engines generally keep the original URL indexed. Using the wrong type during a migration can stall your rankings, which is why verifying status codes matters.
Choosing one preferred version and redirecting the other prevents duplicate-content confusion, consolidates your SEO equity onto a single address, and keeps analytics clean. Which version you pick matters less than applying it consistently.
The checker traces chains of up to 25 hops, so it can reveal long or looping sequences that shorter tools miss.
No. Checks run with a privacy-first design no request logs and no tracking of the URLs you test.
Stop guessing what happens behind your links. Trace any redirect path in seconds, confirm your www configuration, and keep your SEO equity where it belongs.
Then keep going explore the full suite of free SEO tools on Waootools to audit headers, canonical tags, crawl directives, and more.
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