Redirect flattening collapses a chain of redirects into a single response. When a visitor hits a redirect whose destination is itself a redirect on redirect.pizza, we skip the intermediate hops and send the visitor straight to the final destination. That saves a round trip for every hop and keeps your redirect chains short, which search engines prefer. Available from the Pro plan and up.
Enable it on the Settings page of your team. It applies to all redirects of the team.
Example
You once redirected your contact page:
example.com/contact to https://example.com/contact-us
Later, you moved the contact page to a hosted support portal:
example.com/contact-us to https://support.example.com
Without redirect flattening
A visitor of example.com/contact is redirected to example.com/contact-us, which redirects again to support.example.com. Two hops.
With redirect flattening
The visitor of example.com/contact is sent directly to support.example.com. One hop.
Flattening only applies to hops that run through redirect.pizza. Redirects on the destination's own server can't be flattened, because we don't know about them. Read more about why chains matter in Redirect chains and loops.