Redirect chain of 3 or more hops

What this means

Reaching the final URL takes at least three redirects. Every hop adds latency and gives crawlers another chance to stop following.

How to fix it

Collapse the chain so the first URL redirects straight to the final destination, and update internal links to skip it entirely.

Fix effort

This check needs a developer fix: it turns on a routing, hosting or infrastructure decision that no automatic edit can make safely.

Authoritative source

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/301-redirects