RedirectWise

Stop guessing about redirects. RedirectWise automatically captures every HTTP redirect in real-time, giving you complete visibility into redirect chains, response headers, and SEO impact – all from a clean, intuitive interface. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔄 WHAT IS REDIRECTWISE? RedirectWise is a powerful browser extension designed for SEO professionals, web developers, and digital marketers who need to understand how URLs redirect. Whether you're debugging a broken redirect chain, auditing a website migration, or checking competitor URLs, RedirectWise shows you exactly what's happening behind the scenes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES Real-Time Redirect Tracking • Automatically captures all redirect types: 301, 302, 303, 307, 308 • Detects client-side redirects (JavaScript and meta refresh) • Identifies HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) browser-cached redirects • Works on any website you visit Smart SEO Chain Health Score • Get an instant A-F grade for every redirect chain • NEW: Tracking domain detection – bit.ly, t.co, goo.gl get appropriate scoring • NEW: Speed-based scoring – Fast chains are rewarded, slow redirects penalized • Receive actionable recommendations to fix issues • Identify problems like redirect loops, excessive hops, and mixed protocols Detailed Response Headers • View complete HTTP response headers for each redirect hop • Inspect cache-control, content-type, server, and custom headers • Toggle headers visibility for a cleaner view • Perfect for debugging and technical audits Redirect Timing Analysis • See exactly how long each redirect takes in milliseconds • Identify slow redirects affecting page load performance • NEW: Fast chain bonus (+5 for chains under 500ms) • Optimize your redirect chains for speed Persistent History Dashboard • Browse all your past redirect chains anytime • NEW: Store up to 2,000 redirect history entries • Search and filter by URL, date, or SEO grade • Mark important entries as favorites • Add notes to remember context • Never lose important redirect data Professional PDF Export • Generate beautiful, shareable PDF reports • Perfect for client presentations and documentation • Export individual chains or your entire history • Includes all redirect details, headers, and scoring Side Panel Mode • Monitor redirects in real-time as you browse • Keep the panel open while navigating between pages • Ideal for testing redirect implementations Modern UI Design • NEW: Clean border-only theme – no distracting shadows • NEW: Compact, expandable Chain Score cards • Full URLs displayed without truncation • Hover effects for better visual feedback • Dark mode for late-night debugging sessions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 SEO SCORING EXPLAINED RedirectWise analyzes your redirect chains using industry best practices: Grade A (90-100): Excellent – Clean, efficient redirect chain Grade B (75-89): Good – Minor optimizations possible Grade C (60-74): Fair – Some issues need attention Grade D (40-59): Poor – Significant problems detected Grade F (0-39): Critical – Major issues requiring immediate fix The scoring considers: • Number of redirect hops (-5 points per hop) • Tracking redirects (reduced penalty for bit.ly, t.co, etc.) • Redirect type (301 permanent vs 302 temporary) • Client-side vs server-side redirects • Chain speed and performance • Protocol consistency (HTTP to HTTPS) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 WHO IS THIS FOR? SEO Professionals Audit redirect implementations, check competitor URLs, verify site migrations, and ensure link equity flows correctly. Web Developers Debug redirect issues, verify server configurations, test URL rewrite rules, and ensure proper redirect behavior. Digital Marketers Track campaign URLs, verify affiliate links, check landing page redirects, and ensure tracking parameters persist. QA Testers Validate redirect implementations, test edge cases, document redirect behavior, and verify requirements. Technical Auditors Generate professional reports, document redirect chains, and provide evidence for recommendations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 HOW TO USE 1. Install RedirectWise from the Chrome Web Store 2. Navigate to any website – redirects are captured automatically 3. Click the RedirectWise icon to view the redirect chain 4. Analyze the SEO score and recommendations 5. Export as PDF or save to history for later reference ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY & PERMISSIONS RedirectWise respects your privacy: • No data collection – All data stays in your browser • No external servers – Nothing is sent to third parties • No tracking – We don't monitor your browsing • Local storage only – History is stored on your device Why we need permissions: • webRequest – To intercept and analyze HTTP redirects • webNavigation – To track page navigation events • tabs – To identify which tab you're viewing • storage – To save your history and preferences locally • Host permissions – To track redirects on any website you choose to visit ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 COMMON USE CASES Site Migration Audits Verify that old URLs properly redirect to new destinations with 301 status codes. Affiliate Link Checking Ensure affiliate tracking URLs redirect correctly and preserve parameters. Campaign URL Testing Test UTM-tagged URLs to confirm they reach the correct landing page. Competitor Analysis See how competitor URLs are structured and where they redirect. HTTPS Migration Verification Confirm all HTTP URLs properly redirect to HTTPS versions. Redirect Loop Detection Identify and diagnose infinite redirect loops causing errors. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 REDIRECT TYPES DETECTED • 301 Moved Permanently – URL has permanently moved (passes SEO value) • 302 Found – Temporary redirect (use sparingly for SEO) • 303 See Other – Redirect after POST request • 307 Temporary Redirect – Temporary, preserves request method • 308 Permanent Redirect – Permanent, preserves request method • Meta Refresh – Client-side HTML redirect • JavaScript Redirect – Client-side JS redirect • HSTS Redirect – Browser-enforced HTTPS upgrade ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ WHAT MAKES REDIRECTWISE DIFFERENT? Unlike simple redirect checkers, RedirectWise: ✓ Works passively as you browse – no need to manually enter URLs ✓ Provides smart SEO scoring with tracking domain awareness ✓ Rewards fast redirects and penalizes slow ones ✓ Saves up to 2,000 history entries for reference ✓ Exports professional PDF reports ✓ Detects client-side and HSTS redirects others miss ✓ Shows precise timing for performance analysis ✓ Offers both popup and side panel modes ✓ Features a beautiful, modern interface with clean design ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ SUPPORT Have questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you!