Link Redirect Trace

Name: Link Redirect Trace
Rating: 4.840909090909091 (352 reviews)
Author: http://www.linkresearchtools.com/

The all-in-one redirect path analyzer. It also analyzes protocol headers, REL-canonicals, robots.txt, backlink power, and trust!

Download

Install Compare

Link Redirect Trace is an advanced Chrome extension designed for SEO professionals and digital marketers. It provides detailed and accurate analysis of redirect paths, protocol headers, REL-canonicals, and robots.txt rules, helping users understand every aspect of URL redirection.

With this tool, you can instantly check if robots.txt blocks crawlers from redirects, identify URLs that drop cookies, evaluate backlink power and trust scores (LRT Power and LRT Trust), and detect NOINDEX/NOFOLLOW tags on redirect steps. It's ideal for on-page SEO, off-page SEO, and competitor analysis, ensuring you get the complete picture on every redirect and related technical issues such as bot-specific blocking.

Extension Analytics Developer Tools Marketing Productivity SaaS

By:

http://www.linkresearchtools.com/

Users:

100,000

Rating:

4.84

(352)

Version:

1.1.5.27 Last updated: 2024-06-15

Creation date:

2018-09-27

Risk:

Permissions:

activeTab
tabs
webRequest
webNavigation
storage

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size:

549.00KB

Email:

ex*****@linkresearchtools.com

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-12

Ranking

# 1,621 ▲ 4

Other rankings

#2641 in Developer Tools ▼ 1 #2 in redirect keyword 53 #39 in links keyword 37 ▼ 2 #60 in smart tool keyword 21 ▼ 2 #213 in analysis keyword 19 ▲ 3

Other platforms

Link Redirect Trace (v0.9.13.2resigned1)

3,297 4.22

(18)

User reviews

Users praise Link Redirect Trace for its usefulness in SEO tasks, especially analyzing redirects and HTTP headers, along with its clear UI and features like highlighting nofollow links. It saves users significant time and is considered essential by many. However, multiple users note inconveniences such as inability to copy individual header values easily and desire for bulk URL checking. Some report occasional inaccuracies in indexing status display due to site robots rules, causing confusion. Overall, it's a highly valued and effective free tool with room for specific improvements.

Pros

Very useful for analyzing redirects, HTTP headers, canonicalization, and indexability.
Clear and excellent UI, making it easy to use.
Saves time and is essential for SEO work and debugging.
Ability to highlight nofollow links subtly is appreciated.
Free and high-quality tool that users rely on daily.

Cons

Cannot select and copy individual values separately; copy-by-button only copies all headers, which is not always needed.
Lacks bulk link checking feature, which users desire to analyze multiple URLs simultaneously.
Occasionally displays misleading information about indexing status due to how robots rules interact, which can confuse users.

Recent reviews

verygood

Mo*****, 2025-06-05

My go-to plugin for analysing redirects, HTTP headers, canonicalisation, and indexability. Plus the way the extension allows you to subtly highlight nofollow links is excellent.

Ba*****, 2025-06-04

Very useful tool, but please add the ability to check links in bulk. That will help me much more.

Ja*****, 2025-06-04

View all user reviews ›

Extension safety

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Link Redirect Trace requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
Critical ****** ****** ** *** ********* ****** * *********** ******** **** ** ** *** ******* *** ****** **** **** *** ******* *****
High ****** *** ********* ** ******* *** ******* ******* ** ****** *** *** ******** ******
High ****** ********* ** * ****** ******** ******** ********** * ******* ******* *****
High ******* ******* **** *** ****** ***** *** ***** ** ******* **** ********* ********* ** * *********** *****

Risk likelihood

Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Chrome extension may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Chrome extension reputation on Chrome Web Store, the amount of time the Chrome extension has been around, and other signals about the Chrome extension. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Chrome extension.

Link Redirect Trace has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
Low **** ********* *** ******* **** **** * ****** **** ***** ******** *** **** ****** ** ** ****** *** *****
Low **** ********* *** ***** **** **** * ****** **** ***** ********** *** **** ****** ** ** ****** *** *****
Good **** ********* *** **** **** *******

Upgrade to see full risk analysis details

Instantly check and monitor your browser extensions' risks and permissions with Extension Guard.