Ask HN: How do you manage all your 301 redirects?
As your site grows and product marketing changes, how does your team manage 301 redirects?
Are there any tools that make this simple or identify redirect chains?
Are there any tools that make this simple or identify redirect chains?
I have a Chrome extension you can use to audit the internal redirects on a site that might help that checks 100s of pages at a time:
It crawls the pages of site to identify redirect chains (can cause SEO + speed problems), 302 redirects (can cause SEO problems) and redirecting JS/CSS links (can cause speed problems). You can also pull up information like which pages are linking to the same redirecting URL to help you untangle/eliminate them.
I find it pretty common as well that sites will have unintentional redirecting internal links e.g. one page might link to the homepage as example.com instead of www.example.com, triggering a redirect from example.com to www.example.com which slows down browsing for users (similar for http vs https, and tailing slash vs non-trailing slash links).
Definitely we're looking to identify redirect chains so this looks like it could be a big help.
Thank you for the help here.