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Redirect chain

Addresses that need more than one redirect before reaching the page. Every hop is a request the browser and the crawler wait for. Google follows a limited number of hops and may stop before the end; chains usually appear after two migrations were layered on top of each other.

WarningCRAWL-003 · Crawlability · checked on every page

Where it usually comes from

Two migrations layered on top of each other — http to https, then non-www to www, then an old URL scheme to a new one — each adding its own redirect.

How to fix it

  • Point the first redirect straight to the final address.
  • Update internal links so they use the final address and need no redirect at all.

How to check it yourself

Follow the address with a redirect checker, or with curl -IL in a terminal, and count the Location lines before the page answers 200.

What it looks like in a report

Warning 3 redirects before the content. · /blog/*

Old blog addresses go through three hops; pointing the first one at the final address removes two. (An example shop; the numbers are illustrative.)

How the audit counts it

CRAWL-003 is a warning in the crawlability category, and weighs moderately in that category’s score. When it appears on many pages built from the same template, the report shows it once, with the number of pages it covers — because one change in the template fixes all of them.

If the finding is deliberate on your site, it can be accepted as intentional in the report. It then leaves the list and the score, and comes back on its own if what it shows changes.

Other crawlability checks

Find it on your site

A Trakis audit runs this check and the other 65 on your site, and tells you on how many pages each one sits. Or go back to all the rules.