Alternatives to Redirect Checker
A free web tool that traces a URL's redirects and reports each status code in the chain. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Redirect Checker
A free web tool that traces a URL's redirects and reports each status code in the chain.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Redirect Checker.
httpstatus.io
A web tool for checking HTTP status codes, response headers and redirect chains of URLs.
httpstatus.io shows full redirect chains with response headers and checks several URLs per run, rather than one URL at a time.
Check Your Website
Free online checker for a domain's DNS, redirects, certificates, connections and mixed content.
Check Your Website audits redirects together with DNS, certificates and mixed content with grading, though checks are queued and output is dense.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
A desktop website crawler for Windows, macOS and Linux that audits sites for technical SEO issues.
TechnicalSEO robots.txt Tester
A web tool that validates robots.txt and checks whether a given URL is blocked.
XML Sitemap Validator
An online tool that checks whether an XML sitemap is correctly formatted before submission.
Broken Link Check
Free online dead link checker for whole websites or single pages, with no sign-up.
Sitechecker Website Monitoring
A hosted SEO monitoring tool that tracks website changes and technical issues that affect search ranking.
Google Search Console
Google's free web tool for checking how a site is indexed and performs in Google Search.
