For those who
don't already know what's so bad about redirects: (1) Even
just one redirect doubles(!) the server's response time.
If redirects are that costly, would it be useful to run a bot say once a
month to replace links to redirects by the final destination?
The en: wikipedia contains over 5 million internal links. Over 500,000 or
10% are links to redirects. (the stats show 155 K redirect links but that is
the number of redirect pages)
That's totally unrelated, the discussion is of HTTP redirects, which
produce another client->server request.
-- brion vibber (brion @