Avoid landing page redirects

[Filname]

Hello,

I tested my site with GTmetrix.

One of the anwers is :

Avoid landing page redirects for the following chain of redirected URLs.

http://mydomaine.com/
https://mydomaine.com
https://www.mydomaine.com

Have you got an idea to solve the problem.

Thanks for your help

All the best

[Rogier]

For a detailed explanation see this article:
https://really-simple-ssl.com/knowledge-base/redirect-non-www-to-www-domains-in-htaccess/

If the redirects are 301 permanent, there should be no issue.

Because Really Simple SSL aims for best practices, the redirect is handled so you can enable HSTS. If you redirect while “avoiding landing page redirects”, in other words, you redirect on in one go from http://domain.com to https://www.domain.com, you can’t use HSTS in a secure way, as explained in the article above.

[Filname]

Thanks for your quick anwers. I keep Relly Simple SSL like this. it’s work vey well.

Thank again for the precision brought

Best Regards

[Michel Luarasi]

Hello

I got a similar problem here.

Google PageSpeed Insights reported this chain of redirects:
http://www.michelluarasi.com/work
http://michelluarasi.com/work
https://michelluarasi.com/work
https://michelluarasi.com/work/

Do you have an idea how to fix this?

Thanks for your help.

Best,
Michel

[Rogier]

As long as the redirects are 301 permanent, it should not be a problem: Google will use only the end result in the search results. But if you want you can add a redirect for each type of request to make it redirect directly to the primary domain.

For example, a request for http://www.domain.com first redirects to the http://domain.com You can use the following instructions to make it redirect to https directly.

https://really-simple-ssl.com/knowledge-base/redirect-non-www-to-www-domains-in-htaccess/

[Michel Luarasi]

Hello Rogier

Thanks for your reply.

The plugin seems to work fine. I had some other permalink and seo-plugin issues. My goal was to have a clean URL no “WWW” and no trailing “/” with the least possible redirects. It works now!

Thanks a again,
Michel Luarasi

[Hafizie Jamaludin]

Hi i got some isssue, i dont mind redirection from http to https but what is bother me is this another one

http://heaxabell.com/
https://heaxabell.com/
https://heaxabell.com/?v=0fd3f8dd5edc —-> what is this & How to remove this?

[Rogier]

That looks like the geo plugin from WooCommerce. You can disable it in the WooCommerce settings I think.

[Frank]

Hi Rogier,

I’m facing the same issue as mentioned before, when i test my site speed it comes up saying that
the http www moves to https www
and the https www moves to https non www
both 301 moved permanently

I don’t understand how to avoid this and if I actually should
My site doesn’t manage personal data but the email address in case someone leaves a comment

Can you give me an advice in regard?

Thanks for your help
Frank

[Mark]

Hi Frank,

I would advise to leave it the way it is. As long as the redirects are 301 permanent and done via .htaccess it doesn’t matter, since search engines will only use the latests result and the .htaccess redirect is very fast. For a more detailed explanation about why these redirects happen and instructions on how to bypass them you can use the following article:

https://really-simple-ssl.com/knowledge-base/redirect-non-www-to-www-domains-in-htaccess/

Mark

[Vitaliy Vinogradov]

Every 301 has around a 10% drop in link juice, I rather have 10% than 20% so is there a real fix or not?

[Mark]

Hi Vitaly,

see the following article if you want to eliminate redirects: https://really-simple-ssl.com/knowledge-base/redirect-non-www-to-www-domains-in-htaccess/.

Mark

[Margaret]

Hello everyone,

I noticed these issues in GT Metrix:

Avoid landing page redirects for the following chain of redirected URLs.

http://www.arpa.gr/
http://www.arpa.gr/
arpa.gr/en/home___/

This is my .htaccess:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

The customer who own this site, complains about site’s speed. I red the article you mentioned above, but I am not sure how to change the .htaccess file. Is it necessary? Whenever I make changes to .htaccess, the site brokes. Can you help me please?

[Margaret]

I guess something gone wrong with my previous post..

this is my .htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

www.arpa.gr/
www.arpa.gr/
arpa.gr/en/home___/

The customer who own this site, complains about site’s speed. I red the article you mentioned above, but I am not sure how to change the .htaccess file. Is it necessary? Whenever I make changes to .htaccess, the site brokes. Can you help me please?

[Mark]

Hi Margaret,

you seem to use a 302 redirect to redirect from the arpa.gr to apra.gr/en/home.

arpa.gr
302 Moved Temporarily
arpa.gr/en/home___/
301 Moved Permanently
arpa.gr/en/home___/
200 OK

Using a 302 redirect is generally not advised. A 302 redirect means the redirect is temporary. It would be better if you use a 301 redirect for that as well. Have you tried enabling the ‘.htaccess redirect’ option in Really Simple SSL? That should add the right redirect to https:// automatically so you don’t have to change to .htaccess manually.

Mark

[Margaret]

Thank you for your answer.

So, if I enable that option I should change the .htaccess back to default or it doesn’t matter?

Margaret

[Margaret]

Ok, so I followed these steps showed in this link

https://really-simple-ssl.com/knowledge-base/remove-htaccess-redirect-site-lockout/

but the site broke down.

So I changed the settings back to what I had.

What now…?

[Margaret]

Hello again, please, any suggestions to my previous posts?

[Rogier]

What I currently see: The redirect to https is a 301 redirect as it should, probably handled by Really Simple SSL. But there is a redirect prior to that, which is a 302 redirect, from http://arpa.gr/ to http://arpa.gr/en/home___/

Depending on how you have set up your site, this might be caused by a plugin or by a .htaccess setting.

Here are instructions how to redirect your domain, but as this redirect is not a Really Simple SSL redirect, I can’t say if this will work or if you need to disable this other redirect somehow.
https://really-simple-ssl.com/knowledge-base/redirect-non-www-to-www-domains-in-htaccess/

[Vale]

Hello, I need your help
I have a strange situation, When I check Gtmetrix, Pingdom and Google speed test …
All show that I have a 301 redirection
Http//www.mysite.com/theme/library/images/disc.png
1) I don´t have any image called disc.png in my media library
2) I don´t have any .htacess redirection nor on CPANEL redirection feature.
3) the EXPIRES on that image is Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT

Server
Apache
Keep-Alive
timeout=2, max=499
Date
Thu, 19 Oct 2017 20:26:45 GMT
Connection
Keep-Alive
Vary
Accept-Encoding,Cookie
Cache-Control
max-age=86400
Content-Type
text/html; charset=UTF-8
Location
http://mysite.com
Transfer-Encoding
chunked
Expires
Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
Request Headers
Connection
keep-alive
Referer
http://mysite/
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.96 Safari/537
.36
Accept-Encoding
gzip, deflate, sdch
Accept
image/webp,image/*,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language
en-US,en;q=0.8
Host

[Mark]

Hi Vale,

it’s hard to say what might be causing this without knowing your site address. Could you give me your url? Can you find the image in the console?

Mark

[Micropedia]

And if my website is on windows? What to do on an IIS server to avoid redirects where i haven’t htaccess? Regards

[Mark]

Hi,

you could have a look at the httpRedirect option in the IIS server configuration, see the following article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/configuration/system.webserver/httpredirect/. You can set the redirect depending on your site address in the WordPress general options, see https://really-simple-ssl.com/knowledge-base/avoid-landing-page-redirects/.

Mark

[Mac Rob]

I recently installed and activated Really Simple SSL plugin in my wordpress. Today when I checked gtmetrix score, it showed me —

Avoid landing page redirects for the following chain of redirected URLs.

http://sansarlochan.in/
https://sansarlochan.in/
https://www.sansarlochan.in/

All links are jumping to https:// that I really need. It is fine. But after reading above comments, I crossed check my .htaccess file to know what is going on! I found following code there :-

#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*(bot|crawl|spider|80legs).*$ [NC]
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/robots\.txt$
#RewriteRule .* – [R=503,L]
# BEGIN WPSuperCache
# END WPSuperCache
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

I read Rogier’s comment above, he stated “If the redirects are 301 permanent, there should be no issue.”

But can anybody tell me, where can I find that I have 301 permanent redirect? In above .htaccess file, is there written anywhere? Did Really Simple SSL did 301 permanent redirect? Where can I check it?

Thanks for your patience to read this long comment.

[Mark]

Hi,

having a redirect chain is normal and isn’t an issue when the redirects are 301 permanent redirects. Really Simple SSL sets a 301 redirect. You can check the redirect types here: http://www.redirect-checker.org/

Mark

[Mukesh patel]

Hello sir i am using wordpress how to avoid landing pages

http://technology9.com/
https://technology9.com/
https://www.technology9.com/
How to solve with pluging and without plugin

[Mark]

Hi Mukesh,

Really Simple SSL will redirect to https://, the second redirect is to your WordPress site address which contains www. If you visit http://www there will only be one redirect, having your redirect chain is normal and nothing to worry about. If you do wish to remove a redirect, you can use one of the code examples in this article.

Mark

[Naveen Kumar]

Hello sir i am using wordpress how can I use really simple ssl and want to redirect to SSL

http://digitalrajeev.com
How to solve with plugin and without plugin

[Rogier]

The plugin handles this automatically, you can also enable the .htaccess redirect. Manually, see this article: https://really-simple-ssl.com/knowledge-base/manually-insert-htaccess-redirect-http-to-https/

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