The Scenario
You're a site migration specialist and the post-migration redirect audit landed on your desk Tuesday. Column A has 300 old URLs. Your job: confirm every redirect chain resolves cleanly, flag anything with more than two hops, and surface any URL that ends in a 404 before the client's weekly stakeholder update on Friday.
The approach without the right tool:
- Paste each URL into a browser's address bar and watch where it lands — manually counting hops, manually noting the final destination, manually typing results into three columns for 300 rows
- Use a command-line tool like curl to trace redirects — except you need to parse the output, extract the hop count and final URL from verbose headers, and paste the values row by row into your sheet
- Export the URL list and run it through an online redirect checker that processes 10 URLs at a time, charges by the batch, and delivers a CSV you still have to join back to your original sheet
It's Wednesday. Two hundred rows still unchecked. Friday is not moving.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Google Sheet. It reads the data in your sheet and uses Agenty's redirect chain analysis — which traces both server-side and JavaScript redirects — to audit your URL list and write the results back into your specified columns.
For each URL in column A, get the full redirect chain using Agenty and write the final destination URL and hop count into columns B and C
What You Get
- Column B: the final resolved URL after all redirects
- Column C: the number of hops in the chain (a direct 200 response is 0, one redirect is 1, etc.)
- Column D: HTTP status of the final destination — 200, 301, 404, etc.
- Any URL that times out or returns a network error is flagged with "ERROR" so you can rerun that subset separately
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
You need to flag long chains immediately
Check all URLs in column A for redirects using Agenty, write final destination and hop count into B and C, and mark any row where the hop count exceeds 2 with "CHAIN TOO LONG" in column D
Some URLs are HTTP and need to be checked for HTTPS upgrade
For each URL in column A, trace the redirect chain using Agenty, write the final URL into column B, and flag rows where the final destination is still HTTP (not HTTPS) in column C
You want to cross-reference final destinations against an expected list
Trace redirect chains for all URLs in column A using Agenty, write final URLs into column B, then check each final URL against the 'Expected Destinations' tab column A and flag any mismatches in column C
Full audit in one pass for the stakeholder report
For all 300 URLs in A2:A301, trace redirect chains using Agenty — write final URL, hop count, and final status into B, C, D — flag rows where hops exceed 2 or status is not 200 in column E as "NEEDS REVIEW" — and write a summary in F1: total URLs, total flagged, total clean
The summary cell means your Friday update is one copy-paste away.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet with old URLs from a migration — then ask SheetXAI to trace each redirect chain using Agenty. For related work, see how to audit on-page SEO elements or return to the Agenty integration overview.