Redirect Chain & Trailing Slash Scanner

Architectural Resolution: Collapse to 1 Direct Hop

Instead of cascading redirects sequentially (HTTP → HTTPS, non-WWW → WWW, then appending trailing slashes), configure your edge server or reverse proxy to resolve directly to the final canonical endpoint in a single hop:

# Nginx directive for direct single-hop canonical resolution:
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com www.example.com;
    return 301 https://example.com$request_uri;
}