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Netlify Self-Redirects Its Two Most-Linked Pages (40 Links). Supabase, Ghost, and Webflow Don't Redirect At All.

Latest round of the site-crawl series: ran the free RankForge crawler against four JAMstack/hosting-platform sites — netlify.com, supabase.com, ghost.org, and webflow.com — 10 pages each, starting from the homepage. One of the four redirect-loops its two most-linked pages; the other three come back completely clean on redirects.

What I ran

No account needed, so this is reproducible:

  • POST https://rankforge.cc/api/analyzer with {"seed_url": "..."}, then poll GET /api/analyzer/<id> until status is completed.
  • The crawler follows internal links breadth-first from the seed, caps at 10 pages for the anonymous tier, audits every internal redirect to its final destination (hop count included), and classifies every outbound external link as followed or nofollowed.
  • Raw JSON for all four runs: content/analyzer_20261002_<host>.json.

netlify.com: 40 links pay for two 301 self-loops

/about and /agency-directory each carry 10 inbound internal links — the two most-linked pages in the crawl — and each 301-redirects to itself. Seven more lower-traffic agency-directory sub-pages do the same, for 40 affected links total across 9 redirect targets, every one a single-hop self-loop rather than a real destination change.

supabase.com, ghost.org: zero redirects, zero nofollow

Neither site logged a single redirect across its 10-page crawl, and neither nofollows any of its external links — supabase.com (200 external links, 26 unique domains) and ghost.org (241 external links, 148 unique domains) both come back at a flat 0% nofollow ratio.

webflow.com: clean redirects, but 5% of outbound links are nofollowed

webflow.com also logs zero redirects, but 8 of its 157 external links (5.1%) carry rel=nofollow — mostly pointing off its own university.webflow.com subdomain cluster. Still the lowest nofollow ratio this series has recorded for a site that nofollows anything at all.

Try it on your own site

Same checks (orphan pages, near-orphans, internal authority distribution, redirect-chain hops, external nofollow audit) run in one pass, no signup: rankforge.cc/audit.

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