Is there a free bulk HTTP status code checker with no signup?

Yes, this one. Up to 100 URLs per run and 600 URLs per day, with no account and no credit card. Results export to CSV and JSON.

Is this a bulk 404 checker?

Yes. Paste a list of URLs and every 404 or 410 is marked Broken, alongside 5xx errors and failed connections. It checks the URLs you give it rather than crawling your site to discover links, so start from a sitemap, a Search Console export or a migration list.

Does it show the full redirect chain?

Yes. Each row shows the number of redirects and the code of each hop, such as 301, 302, and the details view lists every URL in the chain in order, ending at the final response. The CSV export carries the whole chain in one column. It follows up to 10 hops, the limit Googlebot uses.

How many URLs can I check at once?

Up to 100 per run. There is a fair-use ceiling of 600 URLs per day per IP address, which a normal migration check will never reach. If your list is longer, split it: every run exports to CSV, so the parts recombine in a spreadsheet.

Does a 200 status code mean my page is fine?

No, and this is the most common mistake a status checker encourages. A 200 only means the server answered. The same page can carry a noindex in its meta robots tag or its X-Robots-Tag header, or a canonical tag pointing at a different URL, and Google will not rank it. This checker reads all three from the final response and reports them next to the status code.

Why does this tool show 403 when the URL works in my browser?

Because the request comes from our servers, on a datacentre IP address, and a firewall or CDN can refuse that while allowing your browser. A status code is a response, not a fixed property of a URL. We report this as Blocked rather than Broken, because we genuinely cannot tell from one request whether the page refused access or the edge refused us. Check your CDN or WAF logs for the request, which carries an X-SearchOptimo-Tool header.

Can I check status codes as Googlebot?

Yes, pick Googlebot from the "Check as" list. Be aware of the limit: we send Googlebot’s user-agent string from a SearchOptimo IP address, not from a verified Googlebot IP. A firewall that allowlists Googlebot by verified IP will still block us, and one that blocks on IP reputation rather than user-agent will not fire for us at all. If you specifically need to know whether a crawler is being treated differently, use the Googlebot block tester, which requests each URL twice and diffs the two responses.

Can I check status codes as GPTBot or another AI crawler?

Yes. The "Check as" list includes GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, CCBot (Common Crawl) and GoogleOther, alongside Googlebot and Bingbot. The same limit applies: the request carries that crawler’s user-agent string but comes from our IP address, so a firewall that verifies crawlers by IP will treat it differently from the real bot.

What is the difference between a 404 and a 410?

A 404 means the server cannot find anything at that URL, and it may be temporary. A 410 states the resource was removed deliberately and will not come back. Both are defined in RFC 9110. Google’s documentation says it treats every 4xx code except 429 the same way, so both drop the URL from the index. Use 410 when you want to state that the removal is permanent.

Does this tool detect soft 404s?

No. A soft 404 is a page that returns 200 while telling the user nothing was found, and identifying one reliably needs content analysis rather than a status check. We would rather say so than guess. Google Search Console reports soft 404s it has found on your site.

Why does the status code differ from what Search Console shows?

Search Console reports what Googlebot saw when it last crawled the URL, which can be days or weeks ago. This checker fetches the URL right now. A disagreement usually means the page changed since Google last looked, which is exactly the gap that makes status codes worth checking live.

Do you store the URLs I check?

We keep a count of how many URLs each IP address has checked today, so the fair-use cap can be enforced. The URLs themselves are not stored, and no results are saved or made public.

Bulk HTTP Status Checker: Find 404s, Redirects and Noindex

A bulk HTTP status checker is a tool that requests a list of URLs in one run and records the status code each returns, so you can find 404s, redirects and server errors without opening every page. This one checks up to 100 URLs at once, works as a bulk 404 checker for migration and clean-up lists, and also tells you whether Google can actually use each page. Free, no signup, no credit card.

URLs to check, one per line

0 / 100 URLsUp to 100 URLs per run. Free, no signup, no credit card.

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A 200 does not mean Google can use the page. This checker reports both.

In short: what this bulk HTTP status checker does

URLs per run: Up to 100 URLs, pasted one per line or as a spreadsheet column. Fair use is 600 URLs per IP address per day.
Redirects: Follows up to 10 redirect hops, the same limit Googlebot uses, and shows the URL and status code of every hop in the chain.
Indexability: Reads the meta robots tag, the X-Robots-Tag header and the canonical on every final response, so a 200 carrying noindex is flagged instead of passed.
Google index status: Optionally checks whether Google has indexed each URL that returned a success code, 5 URLs per run.
User agents: Check as Chrome, Safari on iOS, Googlebot (desktop or smartphone), Bingbot, GoogleOther, GPTBot, ChatGPT-User or CCBot.
Output: A verdict per URL (OK, Check, Fix, Broken or Blocked), CSV export and JSON copy. No login and no credit card.

How do I check HTTP status codes in bulk?

Paste your URL list into a bulk HTTP status checker, one URL per line, and run it. The tool requests every URL, follows any redirects and records the final status code. Then sort the results: 4xx and 5xx rows are broken, 3xx rows redirect, and a 200 is only healthy if nothing marks it noindex.

How to use it as a bulk 404 checker

A 404 means the server found nothing at the URL. Finding them in bulk takes five steps, and the last one is the one most audits skip.

Step 1: Collect the URLs you need to check

From a sitemap: The sitemap checker lists every URL in an XML sitemap, ready to copy.
From Search Console: Export the Pages report, especially the rows listed as Not found (404).
From a migration: Use the list of old URLs that should now redirect to new ones.

Step 2: Paste up to 100 URLs and choose a user agent

Input: One URL per line. A pasted spreadsheet column also works, and only the first field of each row is read.
User agent: Keep Chrome for a general audit. Choose Googlebot to see what a search crawler is served.

Step 3: Run the check and filter by verdict

Broken: A 404, 410, other 4xx, a 5xx, or a hostname or certificate that fails. These need a fix.
Blocked: A firewall, rate limit or bot challenge answered instead of your server. Re-run it before acting on it.

Step 4: Fix each broken URL

Moved content: Add a 301 redirect to the closest equivalent page.
Removed on purpose: Leave the 404 or return a 410. Google treats every 4xx code except 429 the same way.
Internal links: Update links and sitemap entries that still point at the dead URL.

Step 5: Re-run the same list to verify

Verify: Paste the list again. Every row you fixed should now read OK, or a single redirect.
Keep a record: Export the CSV, so you have a dated copy of what changed.

What each column means

Status: The code returned by the final response, after any redirects were followed.
Verdict: Our reading of that code in context. OK, Check, Fix, Broken or Blocked. The table below explains each.
Redirects: How many hops it took to get there, with each hop’s code beside the count. Open details for the full chain, URL by URL. More than one hop is a chain worth collapsing into a single redirect.
Indexable?: Whether anything in the final response stops Google indexing the page: a noindex in the X-Robots-Tag header or the meta robots tag, or a canonical pointing at a different URL.
In Google?: Whether Google actually has the page in its index right now. Opt-in, and only run on URLs that returned a success code.
ms: Round-trip time for the final response. A rough signal, measured from our servers, not a Core Web Vitals measurement.

The five verdicts

Verdict	What it means	What to do
OK	A success code, and nothing stopping Google using the page	Nothing
Check	It works, but something may not be what you intended: a canonical pointing elsewhere, a redirect you did not expect, a 401, or a success code other than 200	Confirm it is deliberate
Fix	It works today but is costing you something. Usually a success code carrying noindex, or a chain still redirecting at Google’s 10-hop limit	Change it
Broken	It does not work: 404, 410, another 4xx, a 5xx, a hostname that does not resolve, a refused connection, or an invalid certificate	Fix before you ship
Blocked	We could not get a reliable reading. A 403 of unknown cause, a 429, a bot-protection challenge, or a timeout	Treat it as unknown, not as a pass and not as a failure. Re-run, or check from your own network

Why a 200 does not mean the page is fine

A status code answers one question: did the server respond. It says nothing about whether Google will keep the page in its index. A URL can return a clean 200 and still be excluded, and the four ways that happens are all invisible to a checker that only reads the status line.

Signal	What it looks like	Effect on indexing
meta robots noindex	<meta name="robots" content="noindex"> in the page body	Google drops the page from its index, or never adds it
X-Robots-Tag noindex	An X-Robots-Tag response header carrying noindex or none	Same as above, and invisible unless the tool reads response headers
Canonical pointing elsewhere	A rel=canonical naming a different URL	Google is asked to index that other URL instead of this one
Soft 404	A 200 on a page that says nothing was found	Google may treat it as missing anyway. This checker does not detect soft 404s, and says so rather than guessing

The first three are read from the final response and shown in the Indexable? column on every run. For a single URL and a full five-signal verdict including robots.txt, use the indexability checker.

Checking index status alongside the status code

Indexable and indexed are different claims. The first is what the page permits. The second is what Google has actually done, and it is the one that decides whether the page can earn traffic. After a run, you can check index status live on the URLs that returned a success code. That restriction is deliberate: asking whether a 404 is indexed tells you nothing. It is capped at five URLs per run because each one is a live query against Google rather than a fetch of your own page.

For a longer list, the bulk Google index checker does the same job as its main task.

How this bulk URL status checker compares

Every free bulk status checker reports the code. They differ on how many URLs they take, whether they show each redirect hop, and whether they look past the status line at all. If your chains run past 10 hops, a tool that follows 20 will show the rest; Google stops at 10 either way.

As stated on each tool's own page on 30 October 2026. “Not listed” means the page does not mention it, not that the feature is definitely absent.
Tool	URLs per run	Shows each redirect hop	Reads noindex or canonical	Checks Google index status
SearchOptimo (this page)	100	Yes, up to 10	Yes: meta robots, X-Robots-Tag, canonical	Yes, opt-in, 5 URLs per run
httpstatus.io	100	Yes	Not listed	Not listed
Pulsetic Bulk URL Checker	25	Yes, up to 10	X-Robots-Tag header only	Not listed
Scrawl Bulk Status Checker	200	No, first redirect target only	Not listed	Not listed
Patrick Stox Bulk HTTP Status Checker	500	Yes, up to 5	No, the page says it does not prove indexability	Not listed
Kunal Dabi HTTP Status Code Checker	10,000	Yes, up to 20	X-Robots-Tag header	Not listed
QuickSEO Bulk HTTP Status Code Checker	100	No, redirect target only	Not listed	Not listed

When a status code is not the server's real answer

We request your URLs from a datacentre IP address. Firewalls, CDNs and bot-protection layers treat that differently from your laptop, so sometimes the code we receive comes from the edge rather than from your server. When we cannot tell the difference, we say so instead of scoring the row. A tool that reports a bot challenge as a broken page is confidently wrong, which is worse than being unsure.

Symptom	Likely cause	What we report
403 in this tool, 200 in your browser	A firewall or CDN refusing our datacentre IP address, rather than the page refusing everyone	Blocked, with the ambiguity stated. Never Broken
429 Too Many Requests	Rate limiting, sometimes triggered by checking many URLs on one host at once	Blocked. Re-run with fewer URLs
503 with a challenge page	Bot protection serving an interstitial instead of passing the request to the origin	Blocked, and the row says the origin did not answer

Every request carries an X-SearchOptimo-Tool header, so you can find it in your own access logs. If you need to establish whether a crawler specifically is being treated differently, the Googlebot block tester requests each URL twice, changing only the user-agent, and diffs the two responses.

HTTP status codes by class, and what each means for Google

An HTTP status code is the three-digit number a server sends back to say how it handled a request. Class definitions follow RFC 9110; the indexing behaviour follows Google's own documentation on HTTP status codes.

2xx (success): The server returned the page. Google may index it, if nothing in the response blocks it.
3xx (redirection): The URL points somewhere else. Google follows up to 10 hops, and treats 301 and 308 as strong signals and 302 and 307 as weak ones.
4xx (client error): The page is missing or access is refused. Google drops these URLs from its index, and treats every 4xx except 429 the same way.
5xx (server error): The server failed. Google slows its crawl and keeps already indexed URLs for a while, then drops them if the error persists.

The codes a bulk check actually turns up

Code	Name	What it means for Google	What to do
200	OK	Indexable, if nothing else blocks it	Nothing
301 / 308	Moved Permanently / Permanent Redirect	Strong signal to treat the target as canonical	Correct for a permanent move
302 / 307	Found / Temporary Redirect	Weak signal. The original URL stays canonical	Switch to 301 if the move is permanent
304	Not Modified	Content unchanged since the last crawl	Nothing. A caching response, not an error
401	Unauthorized	Cannot be crawled or indexed	Expected on staging. A problem on a public page
403	Forbidden	Cannot be crawled	Check whether your CDN or firewall is refusing crawlers
404	Not Found	Dropped from the index after repeated crawls	Redirect to the closest equivalent, or leave it if the removal is intended
410	Gone	Same as 404, and states the removal is deliberate	Use when you want the URL gone for good
429	Too Many Requests	Google slows its crawl rate	Check your rate limiting is not throttling Googlebot
500 / 502 / 504	Server errors	Crawling stops, and the page can be dropped if it persists	Fix these first: nothing else on the list matters until they are resolved
503	Service Unavailable	Treated as temporary, so the page is retained for a while	Correct for planned maintenance. A problem if it persists

What this checker cannot see

Anything added by JavaScript. We read the response the server sends. A noindex or canonical injected by a client-side script is invisible to this tool, and to every other status checker we tested.
Whether real Googlebot is treated differently. Choosing Googlebot sends its user-agent string from our IP address, which is not a verified Googlebot IP. Google verifies its crawlers by reverse DNS and published ranges, so a firewall doing the same will not treat us as Googlebot.
More than one vantage point. One request, from one network, at one moment. A CDN that varies by region can legitimately return a different code elsewhere.
Soft 404s. A 200 on a page that reports nothing was found needs content analysis to identify. We do not attempt it rather than guess.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a free bulk HTTP status code checker with no signup?: Yes, this one. Up to 100 URLs per run and 600 URLs per day, with no account and no credit card. Results export to CSV and JSON.
Is this a bulk 404 checker?: Yes. Paste a list of URLs and every 404 or 410 is marked Broken, alongside 5xx errors and failed connections. It checks the URLs you give it rather than crawling your site to discover links, so start from a sitemap, a Search Console export or a migration list.
Does it show the full redirect chain?: Yes. Each row shows the number of redirects and the code of each hop, such as 301, 302, and the details view lists every URL in the chain in order, ending at the final response. The CSV export carries the whole chain in one column. It follows up to 10 hops, the limit Googlebot uses.
How many URLs can I check at once?: Up to 100 per run. There is a fair-use ceiling of 600 URLs per day per IP address, which a normal migration check will never reach. If your list is longer, split it: every run exports to CSV, so the parts recombine in a spreadsheet.
Does a 200 status code mean my page is fine?: No, and this is the most common mistake a status checker encourages. A 200 only means the server answered. The same page can carry a noindex in its meta robots tag or its X-Robots-Tag header, or a canonical tag pointing at a different URL, and Google will not rank it. This checker reads all three from the final response and reports them next to the status code.
Why does this tool show 403 when the URL works in my browser?: Because the request comes from our servers, on a datacentre IP address, and a firewall or CDN can refuse that while allowing your browser. A status code is a response, not a fixed property of a URL. We report this as Blocked rather than Broken, because we genuinely cannot tell from one request whether the page refused access or the edge refused us. Check your CDN or WAF logs for the request, which carries an X-SearchOptimo-Tool header.
Can I check status codes as Googlebot?: Yes, pick Googlebot from the "Check as" list. Be aware of the limit: we send Googlebot’s user-agent string from a SearchOptimo IP address, not from a verified Googlebot IP. A firewall that allowlists Googlebot by verified IP will still block us, and one that blocks on IP reputation rather than user-agent will not fire for us at all. If you specifically need to know whether a crawler is being treated differently, use the Googlebot block tester, which requests each URL twice and diffs the two responses.
Can I check status codes as GPTBot or another AI crawler?: Yes. The "Check as" list includes GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, CCBot (Common Crawl) and GoogleOther, alongside Googlebot and Bingbot. The same limit applies: the request carries that crawler’s user-agent string but comes from our IP address, so a firewall that verifies crawlers by IP will treat it differently from the real bot.
What is the difference between a 404 and a 410?: A 404 means the server cannot find anything at that URL, and it may be temporary. A 410 states the resource was removed deliberately and will not come back. Both are defined in RFC 9110. Google’s documentation says it treats every 4xx code except 429 the same way, so both drop the URL from the index. Use 410 when you want to state that the removal is permanent.
Does this tool detect soft 404s?: No. A soft 404 is a page that returns 200 while telling the user nothing was found, and identifying one reliably needs content analysis rather than a status check. We would rather say so than guess. Google Search Console reports soft 404s it has found on your site.
Why does the status code differ from what Search Console shows?: Search Console reports what Googlebot saw when it last crawled the URL, which can be days or weeks ago. This checker fetches the URL right now. A disagreement usually means the page changed since Google last looked, which is exactly the gap that makes status codes worth checking live.
Do you store the URLs I check?: We keep a count of how many URLs each IP address has checked today, so the fair-use cap can be enforced. The URLs themselves are not stored, and no results are saved or made public.

Check the whole list on a schedule

This page tells you what your URLs return right now. Status codes change without warning: a deploy breaks a route, a plugin adds a noindex, a CDN rule starts refusing crawlers. SearchOptimo checks your URLs against Google's live index on a schedule and tells you the hour a page drops out, rather than weeks later in Search Console.

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How this page is maintained. The status-code behaviour described here was checked against RFC 9110 and Google Search Central on 30 October 2026. The checker sends a GET request, follows up to 10 redirects, and reads the final response only. We do not make claims about ranking impact that we cannot source, which is why this page describes crawling and indexing effects rather than promising rank changes.