How to avoid URL redirects for Website Optimization?
URL redirects are made using HTTP status codes 301 and 302. They tell the browser to go to another location. Using URL redirects will delay page loading as the page cannot be rendered until the HTML document has been received from the web server. One of the most common redirects is the missing trailing slash one.
If the directory where the content is situated ends with a slash but the clickable URL doesn’t contain the slash the user will be redirected to the correct URL with a slash at the end. For example, trying to access http://example.com/content will result in a 301 response that will have the redirect location set to http://example.com/content/ .One incorrect symbol in the URL can almost double the loading time of a page in such cases.
How to avoid URL redirects?
Redirects do not only come in the form of page redirects. You can also have redirects inside your HTML, CSS or Javascript code used to point to use or import other URL’s or files. The Broken Requests tool can detect all the 301 and 302 redirects pointed to on your web page.
If you want check whether your actual URL uses a redirect you can use the HTTP Header Checker tool to check the HTTP status code. Type in your URL, click the button and see whether your web page has a redirect and where it redirects to. If you get a “HTTP/1.1 200 OK” code it means your URL is not redirected.
If you get a HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently or a HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily code it means your web page is being redirected. As stated above, you should remove any redirect which isn’t absolutely necessary. The ones which are necessary should always be server side(301 or 302 redirects) and never client side(HTML, Javascript, etc..). So when your website uses client-side redirects replace them with server-side redirects.
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