Almost instant website redirect

I have a website which automatically redirects to a cpa offer. The redirect is setup with a meta redirect.

Ive done it this way rather than 301 redirect so I can see traffic and sources.

My only problem is its slow to redirect. Ive set the time to 0.5 but it still loads my page, then about 1 second later goes to my offer.

Is there a way I can make the redirec seem instant, but still track traffic stats?

Set the time to 0

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL='http://thetudors.example.com/'" />

Yeah I had WordPress installed and then redirected that. I deleted WordPress made a blank html page and added the meta refresh.

WordPress obviously slowed the whole redirect down.

Thanks

Well the 301 redirect is pretty quick, but the speed would also depend on the health of your server as well - if the server is congested, or slow to respond to the http requests, etc, that would also delay the redirect in the process. Of if the server is located far away (half way around the world) and if your site's visitor is located far away from the server, that would also affect their access time in the process as well. Otherwise, there's also Javascript redirect - a little bit more code involve, but if compred to 301, the 301 still loads faster than the Javascript redirect.

Next to the account you want to use, click Manage.
From the Settings menu, select URL Redirects.
Click the New Redirect button.
Enter the domain from your account you want to redirect.
Select whether or not you want all instances of your site with or without www.