Changelog

Releases

What's new in Redirecta.

v1.7.0 2026-10-26 Check live redirects against your redirect map, on your live site or its staging copy, 100 URLs per check, basic auth, and a more accurate redirect checker.
New
  • Check live redirects against your redirect map. In the redirect checker, choose “Against expected destinations” and paste or upload your source and expected destination pairs. Every source is checked live and gets one verdict: pass, wrong destination, no redirect, chain, temporary redirect, destination not 2xx, loop or error. Each result shows the expected and the actual URL side by side, and the CSV export includes the verdict. URLs are compared the way RFC 3986 defines them: differences in letter case of the domain, a default port or encoded letters are ignored, but a trailing slash or a change of letter case in the path makes it a different URL, and the result says when that is the only difference. A destination path such as /new-page is read on the source’s site.
  • Check paths and staging copies. Enter a site to test, and sources written as paths, such as /old-page, are checked on it. Tick “Check full URLs on this site too” to run a map written for your live site against its staging copy before the switch: each URL keeps its path and query but is requested from the site you entered, expected destinations included.
  • Password-protected staging sites. Enter a user name and password under “Password-protected site (basic auth)”. They are sent only to the site you entered, never to another site a redirect leads to, and they are not stored.
  • Choose the Accept-Language. Sites that redirect visitors by language now get the language you pick, from 16 common ones or your own value. By default the checker still sends English (US) as a browser and no language as a crawler.
  • Filter the results by status class (2xx to 5xx, or no response) and by issue (errors, chains, loops, bot protection), or by verdict when checking against expected destinations. The CSV export contains the rows you see.
  • Meta refresh redirects. The redirect checker now follows meta refresh and Refresh header redirects and marks them in the chain. Instant ones are shown as permanent and delayed ones as temporary, which is how Google treats them.
  • Redirect loop detection. A loop is reported as soon as a URL comes back with the same cookies, instead of running into the redirect limit.
  • Bot protection labels. When a site answers with a block or challenge page from AWS WAF, Cloudflare, DataDome, Akamai, Imperva, Sucuri or HUMAN, the result says so. Real visitors and search engines may get a different status. Akamai’s check page is recognized even when it answers 200, and the timed refresh on a check page is no longer followed as if it were the site’s own redirect.
  • More user agents. Chrome Mobile and Googlebot Smartphone join Chrome Desktop, Googlebot Desktop, Bingbot and RedirectaBot.
  • Live progress. Bulk checks show how many URLs are done, and results appear as they come in.
  • Google’s 10-redirect limit. Chains longer than 10 redirects are flagged, because Google stops following them there.
Improved
  • Check up to 100 URLs at once, up from 50. The limit of 150 URLs per minute stays, so a second full check within the same minute pauses with a message saying when to try again.
  • Upload a file in the live checker. When checking against expected destinations, choose a CSV file or drop it on the text box.
  • Accurate status codes. Every hop is requested with GET, like a browser or Googlebot does. Some servers answer HEAD requests differently, which showed codes real visitors never get.
  • Chrome is the default user agent. Many sites block requests that claim to be Googlebot but do not come from Google, which showed 403 errors that Google itself never sees. A note under the user agent menu explains this when you pick a crawler.
  • Clear error messages. DNS failures, refused connections, timeouts, expired certificates and missing intermediate certificates each get their own message instead of a generic connection error.
  • More detail per hop. Every hop shows the status text (for example 301 Moved Permanently) and whether the redirect is permanent or temporary.
  • CSV export. Opens correctly in Excel with non-English URLs, and includes the redirect type and any error for each hop.
  • Rate limit. The limit now counts URLs (150 per minute) rather than requests.
Fixed
  • Checking several URLs on a slow site could stop with “the chain took longer than 30 s” although no single response was slow. Time spent waiting for our own earlier requests to the same site no longer counts.
  • The checker’s requests carried two tracing headers from our error monitoring, which no browser sends.
  • Bulk checks could fail with an internal error after a mapping job had crawled destination pages.
  • A slow site could make every later check of the same site wait indefinitely.
  • Relative redirect targets such as //host/path, ?page=2 and ../page were resolved incorrectly.
  • A 304 response was reported as a broken redirect.
  • Domains that do not exist were reported as pointing to a private IP address.
  • When a chain broke halfway, the final URL showed the last working hop instead of the URL that failed.
  • https://example.com and https://example.com/ were treated as different final URLs in the canonical domain check.
v1.6.0 2026-09-28 Excel workbooks and every Excel CSV are now accepted, unmatched URLs show their closest candidate, and matching is more accurate when only the old site has titles.
New
  • Upload Excel workbooks. You can now upload .xlsx files as well as .csv, and the template downloads as an .xlsx that opens correctly in Excel on any language setting.
  • See the closest candidate for unmatched URLs. When nothing scores high enough to redirect, the results table now shows the closest destination and its score. View shows why, and Edit is pre-filled with it, so accepting it takes one click. No redirect is generated unless you accept it.
Improved
  • Files saved from Excel are accepted as they are. Excel saves CSV files in different encodings and, on Finnish, Danish, German and many other Windows setups, with semicolons instead of commas. All of these are now read correctly, including characters such as ä, ö and the en dash.
  • Column names are matched regardless of case and spacing. Source, Source URL and source-url are all recognized.
  • Better matching when only your old site has titles. Titles, headings and descriptions are now compared only when both the old and new URLs have them. Previously, old-site titles were compared against bare new-site URLs, which lowered the scores of good matches.
  • A brand name in every title no longer pulls pages off course. Words that appear in almost every page title, such as the site or brand name, are no longer treated as meaningful. Before, they could send unrelated pages to any new URL that contained the brand name.
  • Inflected words now match. Different forms of the same word, such as Finnish palvelumme and palvelut or German schwarz and schwarze, are recognized as the same word.
  • Clearer upload errors. An error now says what was found, for example which columns the file has, or which line has an extra column.
Fixed
  • A template filled in and saved in Excel was rejected. It was refused with “Could not parse CSV” because of how Excel encodes special characters.
  • Some page titles were lost. Titles such as NA, None or null were read as empty, and metadata columns with capitalized names were ignored.
  • An empty template was accepted as a job. Uploading the template without any URLs created an empty job that used one of your job slots. It is now refused with an explanation.
  • Deleting your account now removes your files too. Your uploaded files and results are now deleted along with your account, as the privacy policy states.
  • Failed and abandoned jobs are now removed automatically after 7 days, as the privacy policy states. Previously they stayed until removed by hand.
  • Removed the “Review” tier. It was listed in the results filters and on the features page but was never assigned to any result. URLs below 45% are shown as No Match, now with their closest candidate.
v1.5.0 2026-06-10 Major matching improvements for multilingual and multi-market sites: locale-aware routing, more accurate confidence, and better product matching.
Improved
  • Localized URLs now map to their own market. When a source URL is for a specific language or region, it now resolves to the matching localized page instead of falling back to the global page, whenever a localized version exists.
  • More accurate confidence labels. A match where the path is the same but the market or region changed is now shown as high confidence rather than a 100% exact match. The exact tier is reserved for genuinely identical pages.
  • Better product matching. The engine now considers a wider set of candidates, so it finds the right product even when the slug was renamed or translated across languages.
  • Uncertain matches are flagged for review. When a product is no longer on the new site, the closest different product is shown as low confidence for manual review, instead of appearing as a confident match.
Fixed
  • Localized URLs are no longer skipped on multi-market sites. Source URLs that differ only by language or region from a destination were sometimes treated as “no redirect needed” and left out of the export. Every source URL that needs a redirect now appears in the results.
v1.4.1 2026-06-03 Migration matching refinements: loop prevention, parent-path fallback, cross-domain rebrands, automatic deduplication, gap analysis report.
New
  • No Redirect Needed tier. When a source URL exists unchanged in your destination set (the URL is being kept as-is), it now gets a dedicated tier instead of a 100% self-match. These rows are excluded from the Summary and Detailed CSV exports by default, so the deployed redirect file can never contain a /foo to /foo rule that creates an infinite loop.
  • Parent path fallback tier. Deep URLs the engine cannot confidently match (discontinued products, archived posts) now fall back to their parent path when one exists in your destination set (/products/discontinued-item-xyz to /products), preserving link equity at the category level instead of becoming a 404. Tagged at 50% so you can review or filter them.
  • Cross-domain exact match tier. When the engine detects a single-domain to single-domain rebrand (old.com to new.com with paths preserved), identical paths across the two domains are matched at 97% confidence in the exact phase. Faster and more reliable than relying on the AI phase to recognize that the path stayed the same.
  • Gap Report CSV download. A new download button on the results page produces a two-section report: source URLs with no confident match (each annotated with the closest-but-too-low candidate the engine considered), and destination URLs that no source URL maps to (new content with no inbound redirect path).
Improved
  • Duplicate URLs are removed automatically at upload. Deduplication collapses only exact duplicates and tracking-parameter variants of the same address, so /foo and /foo?utm_source=newsletter become one row (a single 301 carries the query string through). Anything that is a separate resource under RFC 3986 is kept so it gets its own redirect: a different scheme (http vs https), host (example.com vs www.example.com), trailing slash (/foo vs /foo/), language path (/en/foo vs /de/foo), or file extension. The upload status reports how many duplicates were removed.
  • Match breakdown shows two new tiers (Parent Fallback and No Redirect Needed) alongside the existing Exact, High, Medium, Low, Review, and No Match counts.
Fixed
  • Self-redirect loops can no longer leak into exported configs. Previously, if your source and destination lists both contained https://example.com/foo, the matcher emitted a 100% exact match from that URL to itself. Deploying that line into nginx, Apache, or Cloudflare would create an infinite redirect loop. The new No Redirect Needed tier catches this case and the CSV exporter excludes it by default.
v1.4.0 2026-05-24 RedirectaBot User-Agent, faster and more reliable redirect checker, cancel running and queued jobs.
New
  • RedirectaBot is now a User-Agent option in the redirect checker. A branded crawler identity (RedirectaBot/1.0 (+https://redirecta.io/bot)) for users who want our tool to identify itself in target server logs. Backed by a public info page at /bot explaining what RedirectaBot does and how to allow or block it.
  • Cancel a running matching job. Stop a job mid-match from the history table or the progress screen. Files are removed cleanly.
  • Cancel a queued job from the history table.
Improved
  • Redirect checker is significantly faster. Typical 3-URL batches now complete in roughly half the previous time.
  • Redirect checker is more reliable on sites that block bots (a common Cloudflare pattern on social platforms). The status now reflects what a real browser would see, with a hint to try a different User-Agent if needed.
  • Mapping validator is friendlier. Auto-detects the delimiter and header rows, and accepts drag-and-drop directly onto the textarea.
  • Minor UI polish across the app.
Fixed
  • Dashboard no longer hijacks you to the last viewed job when navigating in from a public page. Refresh on the progress screen still restores where you were.
  • Concurrent-job limit is now enforced.
  • Admin and Dashboard buttons disappear from the navbar when your session expires.
  • Project name typed after dropping the CSV is now saved.
  • Elapsed time on the second job no longer carries over from the first.
  • Progress bar no longer flashes 0% when returning to the matching screen.
  • Minor bug fixes.
v1.3.2 2026-05-11 Row-count limit on CSV uploads.
Improved
  • CSV uploads now have a row-count ceiling. In addition to the existing 10 MB size limit, files above 50,000 rows are rejected with a clear “split the file into smaller chunks” message. Prevents oversized jobs from queuing up and timing out part way through matching.
v1.3.1 2026-04-21 Cross-locale matching safety net: wrong-market matches no longer slip through as exact.
Fixed
  • Cross-locale matches now surface as “no match” instead of redirecting to the wrong market. Previously, a source URL like /de-de/products/foo could be matched at 100% to a destination like /en-nl/products/foo when no same-language alternative existed. The matcher now rejects those pairings whenever both URLs carry a locale and their primary languages differ. Same-language pairs (such as de-de to de-at, or en-us to en-gb) and locale-add or locale-drop migrations (one side has no locale prefix) are unaffected.
v1.3.0 2026-04-17 Cross-device job sync, smarter scoring, saved corrections, and expanded dictionaries.
New
  • Cross-device job sync. Start a mapping job on one computer, pick it up on another. Active jobs and their elapsed time now stay in sync through your account, no matter where you sign in.
  • Save your corrections. When you edit a match on the results page, your correction is saved against the job. Edited rows are marked so you can see at a glance what you have reviewed.
  • Destination metadata crawler. Enable crawling on the destination list to fetch titles, headings, and meta descriptions. Richer context means better matches for URLs with thin or cryptic slugs.
  • Expanded matching dictionaries. Added five new categories: clothing, furniture, electronics, food and drink, and home. Product and category URLs in these verticals now translate across languages with far more coverage.
  • Refined scoring engine. The matcher now uses 6 composite scoring groups instead of 14 individual signals. Scores are easier to reason about, and matches are more consistent across job types.
  • Job queue limit. Each account can hold up to 10 jobs. Old finished jobs can be deleted to free space.
  • Edit button in job history. Re-open any completed job straight from history without navigating back through the dashboard.
Improved
  • Auto-logout now works reliably. Previously, switching between the dashboard and admin panel could sign you out even within the 30-minute idle window. Sessions are now managed server-side, so the idle clock behaves the same on every page and every device.
  • Results table on mobile. The View and Edit action buttons no longer sit flush against the right edge of the screen. Column widths were rebalanced so Score has more room and Details stays compact.
  • Progress indicator redesign. The circular spinner on the matching screen now matches the Material 3 progress style used elsewhere in the app.
  • Start New Job button. Content is now properly centered.
Fixed
  • Race condition when switching between jobs rapidly could leave stale results on screen.
  • Redirect checker rate limiter is now shared across requests, so the displayed remaining quota stays accurate.
v1.2.0 2026-04-14 Smarter matching for multilingual sites and bug fixes.
New
  • Locale-aware matching. URLs with language prefixes like /de/, /en-gb/, or /fr/ now match to the correct localized destination. Previously, a German source URL could match to an English destination if the path was identical.
  • Compound word recognition. The matching engine now understands compound words common in Nordic and Germanic languages. For example, “wintermantel” is recognized as “winter” + “mantel”, improving matches for product and category URLs.
Fixed
  • Redirect checker now returns correct status codes for all servers.
  • Progress bar no longer jumps backwards during matching.
  • Results page loads reliably after matching completes.
v1.1.0 2026-04-10 HTTP Status Codes glossary, favicon support, and bug fixes.
New
  • HTTP Status Codes glossary: a complete reference covering all 62 HTTP response codes. Each code has its own page with an explanation, common causes, and how to fix it. Codes are grouped by class (1xx through 5xx) with easy navigation between them.
  • Site icon now appears in browser tabs, bookmarks, and when saving to your phone’s home screen.
Fixed
  • CSV download from the results page no longer fails with an error.
  • Dark mode toggle works correctly on all pages.
v1.0.0 2026-04-05 Initial public release of Redirecta, the AI-powered redirect mapping tool for site migrations.
New
  • AI-powered redirect matching using semantic analysis and multilingual embeddings
  • Multi-signal confidence scoring for every match with full transparency
  • Entity extraction for colors, sizes, product types, and categories from URL slugs
  • Multilingual support: 7 dictionaries covering 1,655 terms across 12+ languages
  • CSV upload with flexible column detection (URLs, titles, H1s, meta descriptions)
  • Step-by-step wizard: Upload, Configure, Match, Review Results
  • Configurable matching: similarity threshold, scoring weights, column selection
  • Detailed results view with per-signal score breakdown
  • Export results as CSV (summary or detailed)
  • Job history with status tracking (up to 10 jobs per user)
  • Public redirect chain checker tool
  • Full documentation and getting started guide
  • Blog and release notes
  • Dark mode
  • Responsive design for mobile, tablet, and desktop