About six months ago, I have moved a website to a new domain, and helped migration using 301 redirects into .htaccess of the old domain. using the following rules: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^myolddomain.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.myolddomain.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http\:\/\/newdomain\.com\/$1" [R=301,L] Code (markup): This morning I was looking at AwStats log of the new domain, and was surpised to notice that in the "HTTP Status codes"section, 301 redirects score 77% of the whole codes (seems 200 are not tracked here). I wonder why so many redirects are appearing here and asking myself at the same time what is the proper meaning of the 301 code in those stats? Does it mean that 77% of traffic is incoming (referrer) from 301 redirects (from the old domain), or the newdomain server is generating itself those 301? Please notice that the new domain is running Wordpress, that by default, uses this URL structure to load a page: http://newdomain.com/?p=74517 Code (markup): However, Wordpress allows "pretty permalinks" a technique used to show "friendly" urls like: http://newdomain.com/nice-page-name Code (markup): To achieve this, Wordpress modified new domain's .htaccess file content in this way: # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress Code (markup): Could this rule generate redirects? If so what overhead & disadvantages exist using this technique?