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title: "302 vs 301 Redirects: 12.4% of Internal Redirects Are 302s - PageSpeed Matters"
url: https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/302-vs-301-redirects
description: "Of 14,350 internal redirects across 293 crawled ranking sites, 12.4% are temporary 302, 303 or 307 redirects and 86.5% are permanent 301s."
lang: en
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302 vs 301 Redirects: 12.4% of Internal Redirects Are 302s (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/302-vs-301-redirects)

Of 14,350 internal redirects across 293 crawled ranking sites, 12.4% are temporary 302, 303 or 307 redirects and 86.5% are permanent 301s.

Share of internal redirects that are temporary, by site type

Stores 5.7%

WordPress sites 7.3%

Business sites 26%

All sites 12.4%

Source: PageSpeed Matters. Crawl of 293 ranking sites, up to 1,000 pages each, Oct 2026.

Some temporary redirects are intentional, such as login and cart flows.

Source: 302 vs 301 Redirects: 12.4% of Internal Redirects Are 302s - PageSpeed Matters (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/302-vs-301-redirects)