Steps to reproduce the issue

enable the redirects plugin and the collect urls option
visit several non-existing urls multiple times

com_redirects will now list all of the non-existing urls with a hit count

Take one of the non-existing urls and edit it so that it has a new url and enable the link

Revisit all of the same non-existing urls

Expected result

com_redirects increases the hit count for all the non-existing urls

Actual result

com_redirects increases the hit only for the disabled links

Additional comments

It seems wrong to me that we stop recording the hits because a link is being redirected.

I was looking at this to resolve the feature request #27436

After a site change a website may receive a number hits from cached Google results that will go away after Google's cache is updated. There is a 404 Hits column in the report, but adding a Last Hit Date column would help identify when a redirect was no longer needed.