# Link Redirect Trace review (2026): is it any good? > Free redirect checker that also reads canonicals, robots and headers Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Link Redirect Trace is a free Chrome and Firefox extension from LinkResearchTools that traces every hop of a redirect, including meta refreshes, and times each one. For each hop it checks robots.txt, noindex and nofollow tags, X-Robots-Tag headers and canonicals, shows which URLs set cookies, and adds LinkResearchTools' own Power and Trust scores. A trace can be exported as an image or a CSV file. - **Category:** SEO Browser Extensions - **Made by:** LinkResearchTools GmbH - **Website:** https://smart.linkresearchtools.com/seo-tools/link-redirect-trace-extension - **Runs on:** Browser extension - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: the Chrome version was last updated in June 2024 and the Firefox one in April 2024. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Link Redirect Trace is free to use. - **Pricing model:** Free - **Free plan:** The extension is listed among LinkResearchTools' free SEO tools and installs free from the Chrome and Firefox stores. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Redirect tracing with robots, canonical and header checks for every hop, free on Chrome and Firefox. | Read from https://smart.linkresearchtools.com/seo-tools/link-redirect-trace-extension on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Link Redirect Trace before buying. ## Key features - **Every redirect hop:** Detects each 301, 302, 307 or 308 hop and meta refresh in a chain, and times each one to show which redirect or URL shortener is slow. - **Indexing checks per hop:** Checks robots.txt, HTML noindex and nofollow, and X-Robots-Tag noindex, nofollow and noarchive on every step of the chain. - **Canonical checks:** Parses rel-canonical tags so a page that is canonicalized to another URL is flagged alongside real redirects. - **LRT Power and Trust:** Shows LinkResearchTools' Power and Trust scores for each URL in the chain, as a gauge of link strength. - **Cookies and cache-busting:** Shows which URL in a chain drops cookies, useful for affiliate links, and can bypass a redirect the browser has cached. - **Image and CSV export:** Exports the full redirect trace as an image or a CSV file, and shows full HTTP headers for each response. ## Good for - Checking whether redirects pass links cleanly after a migration - Following affiliate and ad links to see where they end up and which cookies they set - Spotting a noindex or robots block hidden inside a redirect chain ## Worth knowing - The Chrome version was last updated in June 2024 and the Firefox version, 0.9.13.2, in April 2024. - LRT Power and Trust are LinkResearchTools' own metrics; its paid link tools are sold separately. - It traces the URLs you visit one at a time and does not crawl a site or a list of URLs. - Listed for Chrome and Firefox only, with an English interface. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 3.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Link Redirect Trace follows every hop of a redirect, times each one, and checks robots.txt, noindex, X-Robots-Tag and canonicals along the way, free on Chrome and Firefox. But its last updates were April 2024 on Firefox and June 2024 on Chrome, it traces one URL at a time, and its Power and Trust scores are LinkResearchTools' own. - **Value for money: A.** Free, listed among LinkResearchTools' free SEO tools, and a free install on Chrome and Firefox. The company's paid link tools are sold separately. - **Free plan and trial: A.** Free outright: every hop, the indexing and canonical checks, cookies, headers and image or CSV export. - **Features: C.** Every 301, 302, 307, 308 and meta refresh hop timed, robots, noindex, nofollow and X-Robots-Tag checked on each, canonicals flagged, cookies shown and traces exported. It does redirect tracing fully, a smaller job, with no headings, schema or search data. - **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record, but nothing to set up: install it, follow a link and the trace is there. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Chrome and Firefox, so computers only, in English. It ties into LinkResearchTools' own Power and Trust scores and nothing else. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from LinkResearchTools' own pages and its Chrome and Firefox store listings on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among SEO browser extensions - Link Redirect Trace's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 17 of the 34 other SEO browser extensions we grade, and level with 16. - It stands best on free plan and trial (A, above 5 of 34) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 0). - Link Redirect Trace has no paid plan. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/seo-extensions ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Link Redirect Trace is free, so making your own would save you nothing. And it is not the kind of software a weekend replaces. - You could not: An index of the links between billions of web pages. - You could not: A crawler that checks every page of a site. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with LinkResearchTools **Tags:** Site audit, Backlink analysis ## Alternatives - [Redirect Path](https://toolgpa.com/tools/redirect-path): Free Chrome extension that shows every redirect and status code. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/link-redirect-trace-vs-linkresearchtools) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://smart.linkresearchtools.com/seo-tools/link-redirect-trace-extension - https://smart.linkresearchtools.com/seo-tools/free-seo-tools/ - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/link-redirect-trace/nnpljppamoaalgkieeciijbcccohlpoh - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-redirect-trace-addon/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/link-redirect-trace Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).