🔁 Redirect Inspector

Trace every hop in a funnel and ensure tracking parameters arrive intact.

What does this tool do?

The Redirect Inspector traces every HTTP hop and tracks parameter loss so you can audit funnels end-to-end.

Why use this tool?

Verify redirects

Ensure landing pages resolve correctly for every geo.

Protect attribution

See where click IDs or UTMs are dropped in the chain.

Optimize speed

Identify slow hops and trackers that hurt performance.

Audit complex redirect stacks in one pass

Redirect Inspector expands on the basic checker with deeper HTTP context and export-ready evidence.

  • Replay every hop with request headers, SSL notes, and IP/host data.
  • Surface inconsistent status codes across desktop vs. mobile agents.
  • Download the full chain as JSON to attach to tickets.

Best for

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    Campaigns that rely on geo/device routing, cloakers, or CDN rules.

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    Sharing reproducible evidence with compliance reviewers or partner dev teams.

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    Investigating attribution leaks caused by caching layers or managed redirects.

Practical examples

Compare desktop vs. mobile experiences

Switch user agents and show when the mobile path returns a 302 into a different tracker than the desktop flow.

Capture header-level issues

Document hops that strip Accept-Language or downgrade HTTPS so infrastructure teams can replicate.

Validate new DNS or CDN changes

Run the inspector after migrating records to confirm every hop now resolves on the new edge network.

Contextual resources

Postback Tester

Validate that callbacks still fire once the redirect stack is clean.

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FAQ

Redirect Inspector FAQ

Answers to common funnel-tracing questions.

What does the Redirect Inspector do?

It follows every redirect hop in a funnel so you can confirm where tracking parameters are added, stripped, or overwritten.

How does it trace the redirect chain?

The tool makes HTTP requests from the server, recording every location header, status code, and load time until the final destination is reached.

Can it catch missing click IDs or UTMs?

Yes. Each hop is logged with the full URL so you can see whether fbclid, gclid, ttclid, or custom UTMs survive the journey.

Is the Redirect Inspector free to use?

All tools in this toolkit, including the Redirect Inspector, are free for manual checks.

Redirect cluster

Best for

  • Engineers debugging custom redirect stacks
  • Teams that need raw header visibility
  • Audits where compliance demands packet-level proof

Use this when

Header diffing

Capture every response header to show where cache, meta-refresh, or JS redirects fire.

Latency isolation

Pinpoint which hop adds seconds of delay so partners know which tracker to fix.

Parameter forensics

Validate how macros, cloakers, and router scripts rewrite query strings at each step.

Related resources

Standard Redirect Checker Landing Debugger

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