Google Referrals HTTPS |
July 9th, 2015 |
| https, tech, traffic |
I've been reading in the news about Google moving more and more
traffic to HTTPS. I was looking at my server logs, though, and I
still see a lot of HTTP traffic:
Referenced in: More Mailbag
Testing now, if I fetch http://www.google.com with
curl I don't see a redirect to https but I do see
one in Chrome in incognito mode. I wonder what's keeping Google from
rolling out the redirect to other browsers?
(I do work for Google, but I don't have any inside information here.)
Update 2015-07-09: A major confounding factor here is that my site is on HTTP, I selected only traffic with referrers, and browsers do various things to hide referrers when going from HTTPS to HTTP. See discussion with Kleber in the comments.
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