Minimize / Remove Redirect Chains

Analyzing my site in GTmetrix I often get the suggestion to “Remove the following redirect chain if possible”.

Does anyone know a way to avoid this?

Hmm, I wonder if they could be eliminated by modifying the use of the asset size option in Handlebars? Does this issue get picked up in other performance tests? Like on Measure page quality and https://www.webpagetest.org/ ?

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So @DavidDarnes I had a bit of crazy fun in a race to the bottom, documenting my process which you can see here…

https://ghost-o-matic.com/speedy-ghosty/

There you can see the gymnastics I went through to deal with the reported Redirect Chains.

Are there directories that are meant to be automatically created to contain various re-sized versions of some images based on the various asset size options?

Anyway, I achieved my 100% SpeedTest on GTmetrix, Google Page Speed Insights, web.dev and WebPageTest…




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