Why checking whether a URL responds is not the same as checking where visitors actually land after redirects.
A link can return a successful response and still send visitors somewhere unexpected.
Most monitoring tools answer one question:
Did the URL respond?
That matters, but it is not always enough.
Where did the visitor actually land after redirects?
Most uptime monitors answer one question: is it up or down? But some of the worst incidents I've...
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Broken Links Are Costing You More Than You Think We all know that a good user experience...
The Technical Problem: Websites Drift, Pipelines Don't Know Long-running scraping...
You get a message with a link: https://bit.ly/4xgurWK No context. No preview. Just a short URL...
A predictable HTTP redirect pipeline: rate limits and access first, then ordered rules, then destination resolution—with the edge…
