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The first two are often:

    nytimes.com > https://nytimes.com
    https://nytimes.com > https://www.nytimes.com
And from there, who knows. Some websites append a trailing slash; sometimes they removed it. Some websites send you to /index.php or /home.aspx rather than sitting in the root.

Subpages may use a redirect to update a slug if there's been a title change. Or maybe the website just moved to a new format altogether and is updating old links.

I have seen examples of 4 or 5 legitimate redirects to send users to the correct place. I'm having trouble coming up with 10 possible reasons, though.




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