# Link Redirect Trace

> Perform advanced, comprehensive and most important correct analysis of links, redirects, and REL-canonicals. Use this extension for your SEO analysis, On page SEO, Off page SEO, competitor analysis and more.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/link-redirect-trace-addon](https://chrome-stats.com/d/link-redirect-trace-addon)

## Overview

- **ID:** `link-redirect-trace-addon`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** LinkResearchTools GmbH
- **Category:** search-tools,social-communication,other
- **Daily users:** 2,633
- **Weekly downloads:** 39
- **Rating:** 4.16 / 5 (19 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.9.13.2resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2016-12-06
- **Size:** 404 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/link-redirect-trace-addon/)
- **Website:** [http://www.linkresearchtools.com/tools/link-redirect-trace-extension/](http://www.linkresearchtools.com/tools/link-redirect-trace-extension/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/link-redirect-trace-addon/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/link-redirect-trace-addon/privacy/)

## Description

Link Redirect Trace is a comprehensive Chrome extension designed for advanced SEO analysis. This tool allows users to perform thorough checks on links, redirects, and rel-canonicals, ensuring correct and complete analysis crucial for on-page and off-page SEO improvements, competitor assessments, and affiliate marketing. It visualizes the full redirect chain, monitors SEO-related attributes like NoIndex or NoFollow tags, robots.txt rules, and tracks cookies on each redirect hop.

Ideal for SEO professionals and marketers, Link Redirect Trace highlights redirect status codes (301, 302, 303, and more), JavaScript and meta refresh redirects, rel-canonical tags, and helps identify harmful redirects or potential penalties. The built-in SEO metrics, including "LRT Power*Trust", offer insights into link strength and trustworthiness. Its all-in-one approach surpasses partial tools by combining redirect, canonical, indexing, and HTTP header analysis to optimize website performance and SEO health effectively.

## Rankings

- #1,834 — Overall
- #206 — Social & Communication
- #217 — Search Tools
- #282 — Other extensions
- #4 — direct link
- #8 — redirect

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `activeTab`
- `tabs`
- `http://*/*`
- `https://*/*`
- `webRequest`
- `webNavigation`
- `storage`
- `downloads`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users consistently praise the add-on for clearly showing redirect chains, helping debug redirects and SEO issues, and for being easy to use with a polished, Firefox-compatible interface. The main recurring complaints are significant performance slowdowns/sluggishness and privacy concerns (cookie collection and an unfriendly privacy policy).

### Pros

- Clearly shows redirect paths and chains, making it easy to inspect individual redirects and debug site redirect issues
- Helpful for SEO and troubleshooting (used to track WordPress redirects and similar problems)
- Easy to use with a well-designed interface
- Compatible with modern Firefox (including Quantum/Nightly)

### Cons

- Can cause significant browser slowdown or sluggishness (long startup and UI lag reported)
- Privacy concerns — reportedly collects cookies and has an unfavorable/privacy policy

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