[RobSm]

If you build your site in a way that multiplies each request 10x, well then that's what you get. Don't do that and you won't have issue with requests. Or handle those requests properly. There are solutions to that. You know how many requests your local google CDN gets? They know how to manage load.

[marginalia_nu]

Most pages have at least a http->https redirect, many contain a lot of old links to http content.

Usually it's error pages that really drive the large redirect chains. They often have a vibe of like some forgotten stopgap put in place to help with some migration to a version of the site that is no longer in existence.

Of course you don't know it's an error page until you reach the end of the redirect chain.