Thread:Project:Support desk/Impact of having redirects/forwards/reply (4)

Redirects represent very minimal overhead. I almost certainly would not worry about them. If you change the configuration of $wgMaxRedirects to more than 1 (which probably doesn't even work) redirects may become more expensive.

In particular adding a redirect is basically no more expensive then adding another normal page. In all probability if you do run into performance problems, it would probably be caused by something else.