Today is a great day for redirection.io! We have released the v2.0.0 of the redirectionio-agent, the software component that runs redirection rules on the websites of our customers. This new version is the result of several months of hard work and includes many improvements. in addition to better overall agent performance, this release introduces new triggers and actions that will allow a much more powerful use of redirection.io.

Starting today, redirection.io users can create rules that are triggered by:

• the URL (or URL pattern)
• the HTTP method of the request
• the status code of the backend response
• the value of a request header

Used to create redirection rules? You can still do it with the new agent, of course, and you can also:

• override HTML meta tags (you know, the <title> tag at the top of every web page?)
• set the value of a response header
• inject arbitrary HTML code in your web pages

In the coming months, we will be adding more triggers and actions. However, for now, it means that configuring the following behaviors only takes a few clicks with redirection.io:

• I want to 302 redirect all the requests under /products/* for which the backend responded with a 404 - this can be useful to avoid 404 errors in product catalog pages, for example ;
• I want to 302 redirect the user to /fr if the X-GeoIP request header is defined and its value starts with fr
• I want to change the meta title and meta description on the page /products/example-product.html
• I want to add a meta og:image on every page of my website
• I want to add a x-frame-options response header to all the responses of my website, and set its value to SAMEORIGIN

Want more triggers or actions? Let us know!

• Read more about triggers and actions ⚡
• Read the detailed changelog

Since a long time, redirection.io offers a complete logging of all the HTTP traffic. This is very useful, as it gives a complete overview of the real traffic that your website receives, and helps us to build traffic dashboard and set priorities on which issues to fix first.

However, we wanted to go further and propose a proactive way to find issues within our customer websites. As part of our website HTTP traffic monitoring, we are opening today in private beta a brand new website crawler that our team has been working on quite heavily lately: the redirection.io website crawler.

The redirection.io website crawler makes it easy to spot issues on your website: broken links, thin content pages, duplicate meta tags, slow pages, etc. More than 60 indicators are extracted for each crawled page, which gives an exhaustive understanding on how a website behaves, and which optimizations can be setup to improve its technical SEO. The crawler is completely integrated in the redirection.io manager, and we believe that it is a perfect complement to our redirection solution to help you find issues in your website (and fix them with redirect rules!).

The access to this crawler is offered for free to our paid customers during the beta period. Request a trial to the redirection.io crawler ➡️

We are launching today these "What's new on redirection.io?" pages, to let us explain the daily changes that are made to the redirection.io platform. We are constantly improving the solution, and have introduced many new features in the last year. With over 200 production deployments completed in 2020, and more intense work to come, we thought it was a good time to start sharing with our customers the changes that we make to redirection.io.

Our team is working every day very hard to improve our redirect solution and create innovative new features to solve SEO and web traffic management problems. Our roadmap contains great things for 2021, so this was the way to keep you informed! Our goal is to keep you up-to-date on new features that we launch, ask for your feedback, or share important product annoucements.

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