What are HTML redirects?

HTML redirects are one of three techniques that provide instructions to your visitor’s web browser to automatically take your user from the URL they keyed into their browser to the URL where your content now resides. In this way, you can retire an old HTML page and send users to a brand new HTML page entirely.

How do I create a redirect?

HTTP redirects are the best way to create redirections, but sometimes you don't have control over the server. In that case, try a element with its http-equiv attribute set to Refresh in the of the page. When displaying the page, the browser will go to the indicated URL.

What is a refresh attribute in HTML?

For HTML redirects, its value is set to “refresh”. Since browsers work within an HTTP Request-Response cycle, this attribute provides information to the browser “equivalent” to what can be found in a similarly-named HTTP header.

What is a Redirect response?

Redirect responses have status codes that start with 3, and a Location header holding the URL to redirect to. When browsers receive a redirect, they immediately load the new URL provided in the Location header. Besides the small performance hit of an additional round-trip, users rarely notice the redirection.