Redirect website after certain amount of time

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.google.com/" />

You're probably looking for the meta refresh tag:

<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.somewhere.com/" />
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>Redirecting in 3 seconds...</h1>
    </body>
</html>

Note that use of meta refresh is deprecated and frowned upon these days, but sometimes it's the only viable option (for example, if you're unable to do server-side generation of HTTP redirect headers and/or you need to support non-JavaScript clients etc).


If you want greater control you can use javascript rather than use the meta tag. This would allow you to have a visual of some kind, e.g. a countdown.

Here is a very basic approach using setTimeout()

<html>
    <body>
    <p>You will be redirected in 3 seconds</p>
    <script>
        var timer = setTimeout(function() {
            window.location='http://example.com'
        }, 3000);
    </script>
</body>
</html>

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