Frequently asked questions.

Rapid301 uses a series of workflows and matching algorithms to compare every URL on the staging site with each URL on the current site. This gives you the foundational redirect document. You can check the output in the powerful 301-Redirect Table to make any adjustments before exporting your redirects as a .csv or .htaccess file.

Yes! If you use Screaming Frog or have sitemaps in a .csv file, you can upload them and have Rapid301 process these. Use this CSV → 301 Redirect tool.

You can simply input your Current Site Url and Staging Site Url into Rapid301 and it will crawl both sites to get the sitemap, then automatically process them. Or if you have used a tool like Screaming Frog to get the sitemaps, you can upload them directly using this CSV → 301 Redirect tool.

When you scan your site with Rapid301 it first gets your URLs from all of your sitemaps (from sitemap.xml and other nested sitemaps) and then does a HTTP crawl of your website. This is fast and efficient and suitable for most websites.

Rapid301's crawler DOES NOT use Javascript rendering. If you need Javascript rendering for your crawl you can use Screaming Frog. Another way to get all the URLs for a site is to export the sitemap from the CMS.

Rapid301 uses a blend of crawling methods based around HTTP but it currently does not find links injected via Javascript in Single Page Applications (SPAs) or otherwise. If you need this Javascript scraping we advise using Screaming Frog to crawl your sites. You can then upload the sitemaps from Screaming Frog to Rapid301's CSV → 301 Redirect tool to automatically process them.

100 page sites normally take between 3-20 seconds and the variance is due to the server response times from your current and staging sites.

Rapid301's matching algorithm is very accurate when the paths are similar and it easily identifies the best match path. If the path structure has changed significantly or if there are no similar URLs, it will redirect to the parent route or index, meaning that it will still be handled. You will see paths with no great match by the blue indicator on the project review page.

Rapid301 does a great job in 90%+ cases, but there are some situations in which it can give outputs you wouldn't expect. It is strongly recommended that you check all the rows and make adjustments before exporting the redirects to make sure everything is in order.

No, Rapid301 checks all the status codes of all the URLs on the staging site for both tools and excludes any that return a 404. This means that if you use the URL → 301-Redirect or the CSV → 301-Redirect tool, no staging paths will resolve to a 404 error page.

Rapid301 supports both username and password for sites that have HTTP authentication. You can either enter the username and password or temporarily disable it while running the scan. If your site has a password field on the page, and not HTTP, we recommend disabling the password protection for best results.

Yes, Rapid301 URL → 301 redirect tool redirects all pages found on the current site, regardless of the status code. This means 200 and 404 pages will be redirected.

Scan and review are free. You pay once to unlock a project (by page band, or with credits where 1 credit = 1 page). After unlock you can export CSV / .htaccess as often as you like at no extra cost — including re-downloads. Sites with 10 pages or fewer unlock and export free. See the full list on our pricing page.

Rapid301 is free to scan, match, and review redirects for any site. For sites over 50 pages, you will need to create an account. You only pay when you unlock a project to export. If you are not satisfied with the results we are happy to offer a refund. There is no subscription, so there is no need for a free trial.

Unlock is the one-time payment that permanently opens a project. Export is downloading the redirect file (CSV or .htaccess). Unlock once, then export whenever you need at no extra cost.

Unlock one project if you have a single site — that flat page-band price is usually best (e.g. one 50k-page project is $960). Pre-buy credits if you unlock many projects over time; credits never expire and 1 credit equals 1 page spent at unlock. A 50k credit pack ($1,200) is not cheaper than unlocking one 50k project once.

Creating 301-redirects manually is extremely time consuming and boring. I did it once for a 350 page site and that was enough motivation for me to spend 1000's of hours building Rapid301 so no one has to suffer the pain and frustration again.

Enter a single URL or upload a sitemap CSV and Rapid301 checks each redirect chain for status codes — 301, 302, 404, and more. Use it after a migration to confirm every old URL resolves correctly on the new site.

Enter a website URL and Rapid301 crawls the site to build an XML sitemap. It supports multi-lingual and locale-specific sitemaps so you can inventory URLs before creating redirect maps or handing off to a CMS.

The migration quoting tool analyses site structure, URL counts, templates, and technical debt from a sitemap or crawl. Use the report to scope rebuild effort and price migration projects accurately.