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SEO HTTP Header Checker

Inspect pasted raw HTTP response headers for SEO-relevant status, robots, redirect and content-type signals.

Review SEO-relevant HTTP headers

Paste the response status line and headers copied from a browser, curl or monitoring tool.

Status line—
Content-Type—
X-Robots-Tag—
Location—
Cache-Control—
Header review
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How the calculation works

The tool parses a pasted HTTP status line and case-insensitive header names, then surfaces SEO-relevant fields such as Content-Type, X-Robots-Tag, Location and Cache-Control. It also performs a few structural checks, such as a redirect status without a Location header.

How to use the result

Use it when debugging crawling, indexation, redirects or file responses. X-Robots-Tag can control indexing outside HTML, while status and Location headers determine redirect behavior at the HTTP layer.

Assumptions and limitations

The checker does not request the live URL and cannot confirm what Googlebot receives, whether a CDN varies headers by user agent, or whether multiple response hops exist. It is a text parser, not a crawler.

Example

Paste the complete response header block when possible so status and redirect signals can be interpreted together.

Frequently asked questions

Does this send a request to my URL?
No. It analyzes only raw HTTP headers that you paste.
Can X-Robots-Tag override HTML meta robots?
Header and HTML robots directives can both contribute to indexing controls; review all signals rather than assuming one is irrelevant.
Why check Content-Type for SEO?
Content type affects how a response is interpreted and can reveal misconfigured HTML, feeds, files or error responses.
Can this detect a redirect chain?
Not from one header block. Use the Redirect Map Checker for planned mappings or a live crawler for actual response hops.