--- title: "Redirect done with meta refresh or JavaScript (seo/client-redirect)" description: "seo/client-redirect: Crawlers that don't run JavaScript stay on the original URL, and Google treats meta refresh/JS redirects as weaker signals than HTTP…" canonical: https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/client-redirect lastModified: 2026-09-16 --- # Redirect done with meta refresh or JavaScript `seo/client-redirect` · severity **warn** · category SEO · detected by `void seo` and `void audit` ## Why it matters Crawlers that don't run JavaScript stay on the original URL, and Google treats meta refresh/JS redirects as weaker signals than HTTP redirects. ## How to fix it Redirect on the server: `redirects()` in next.config, `redirect()`/`permanentRedirect()` in a Server Component before any Suspense boundary, or a proxy rewrite. ## Example ```tsx // app/old/page.tsx — server-side, status is a real 308 import { permanentRedirect } from 'next/navigation' export default function Page() { permanentRedirect('/new') } ``` ## References - https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/301-redirects ## More seo rules `void seo` reports 60 rules in this category. What search engines need from the raw response: status codes, titles and descriptions in , self-referencing canonicals, one h1, crawlable links, Open Graph, icons, robots.txt and a sitemap with real dates. - `http-status` Page does not return HTTP 200 — [seo/http-status](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/http-status) - `redirect-chain` URL reaches its content through more than one redirect — [seo/redirect-chain](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/redirect-chain) - `redirect-temporary` Temporary redirect (302/303/307) used — [seo/redirect-temporary](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/redirect-temporary) - `noindex` Indexable page carries noindex — [seo/noindex](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/noindex) - `robots-snippet-restricted` nosnippet or a very low max-snippet limits previews — [seo/robots-snippet-restricted](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/robots-snippet-restricted) - `soft-404` Missing page returns HTTP 200 (soft 404) — [seo/soft-404](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/soft-404) - `html-too-large` Uncompressed HTML is over Googlebot's 2 MB fetch limit — [seo/html-too-large](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/html-too-large) - `rsc-payload-ratio` Inline RSC flight payload dominates the HTML — [seo/rsc-payload-ratio](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/rsc-payload-ratio) Detected by `void seo` and `void audit`. Explain it in a terminal: `void rules seo/client-redirect`