Free URL redirect checker

Trace. Expand.
Know where it goes.

Reveal every redirect, HTTP status, and final destination before you trust a link.

✓ No signup required✓ Private networks blocked✓ Secret-like URL values redacted from logs

Popular short links we trace

Reveal destinations from common social, commerce, and marketing shorteners.

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How it works

The evidence behind every destination

1

Paste a URL

Submit a short link, campaign URL, or any HTTP/HTTPS address.

2

Follow every hop

Redirect Sniffer requests each destination without executing page scripts and records the HTTP chain.

3

Review the result

See status codes, response time, destination, transport security, and useful link signals.

Redirect Sniffer Pro

Stop checking critical links by hand.

Audit campaign links in bulk, compare crawler behavior, keep evidence, and get notified when destinations change.

See Pro pricing
✓ 200-link bulk checks
✓ 25 scheduled monitors
✓ Email change alerts
✓ 1-year history
✓ Crawler profiles
✓ CSV exports
✓ 10k API checks/month
✓ Secret-value redaction

What is a URL redirect checker?

A URL redirect checker follows the HTTP responses between the address you enter and the page that ultimately answers. A short link may pass through tracking, regional, authentication, or campaign services before reaching its final destination.

Seeing the full chain helps uncover broken hops, unnecessary latency, HTTPS downgrades, unexpected domains, and differences between how browsers and crawlers are treated. Redirect Sniffer records HTTP redirects and HTML meta refreshes while blocking requests to private or reserved network addresses.