Tool
Redirect checker
Follow a link's redirect chain and see every hop, one at a time, before you click it yourself.
This is the one tool on this page that talks to our server: the URL is fetched from here, one redirect at a time, so every hop can be checked before it is followed. It never fetches a private, loopback or link-local address, and it never reads or shows you the page the link lands on — only the status code and where it redirected to.
Why a shortened link deserves a look first
A shortened or redirected link hides its destination until you click it. This follows the chain from our server instead, one hop at a time, and reports the status of each — so you can see where a link goes, and how many times it redirects, before you're the one making the request. It refuses to fetch anything on a private network, and it never reads the response body: only the status and the next location, at every hop. The other two tools here run entirely in your browser instead and never touch a server at all.