Redirect chain
What it means
These URLs take more than 2 hops to reach their destination. Every hop adds latency for visitors, and long chains risk being abandoned by crawlers before the destination is reached.
How to fix it
Collapse the chain: change each redirect to point straight at the final destination instead of at the next hop. Then update the internal links, the sitemap and any canonical tags to name the destination directly, so the redirect only ever serves external traffic and old bookmarks.
Finding it in CrawlStat
After a crawl, open Issues and pick Redirect chain. Click Show all in Pages to filter the Pages table to the affected pages, or Export affected to hand the list to whoever owns the fix. Audit ID: redirect_chain.