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Insufficient HTTPS coverage on your site error in GSC

         

jediviper

9:41 am on Apr 26, 2021 (gmt 0)

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So I started checking recently the new "Page Experience" menu for one of my website and I have realised that something is wrong according to this notice.

I get a Failing message and the "Insufficient HTTPS coverage on your site" message for my main Domain property with 0% of good urls.
This is extremely strange as I had made sure that:
- My hosting cloudways has an active Let's Encrypt SSL for me.
- Cloudflare has also activated the Let's Encrypt SSL
- Checked the WP settings and the site url is with https
- My domain loads with the locker next to it and if u click on it you get the verification the certification is active
- Launching the http version it redirects to https
- Searching with the site operator for the http version at the google page, I always get https results

So everything looks fine. The only thing that I didn't edit is my .htaccess file, where after switching to the new hosting I haven't added manually any 301 commands.

Any ideas?

not2easy

3:52 pm on Apr 26, 2021 (gmt 0)

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Google says they are currently only evaluating mobile URLs: [support.google.com...] though there is no indication on how they decide what a mobile URL is. Maybe if you are using a mobile device when you use it?

HTTPS usage
A page must be served over HTTPS to be eligible for Good page experience status. The Page Experience report doesn't consider HTTPS criteria when calculating URL status, only as a site-wide warning: if your site has a relatively high percentage of HTTP URLs, you will see a Failing warning in the Page Experience report. We don't yet have a report that shows details about HTTP vs HTTPS on your site, but here are tips on how to locate your HTTP pages, and here's a guide describing why HTTPS is important, and how to implement it on your site.
Their link to "tips on how to locate your HTTP pages" is here:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/10218333#find_http_urls

Their link to information about calculating URL status is here:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/10218333#status

If you have not added canonical 301 redirects to serve https in your htaccess file you may not be serving clean https URLs. CPanel redirects are 302 temporary by default. Look at your access logs, you can see there what is happening.

NickMNS

4:06 pm on Apr 26, 2021 (gmt 0)

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You can also try testing your site with SSL Labs, it will point out any problems with your HTTPS setup:
[ssllabs.com...]

JesterMagic

7:16 pm on Apr 26, 2021 (gmt 0)

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Looks like you have everything covered...

On cloudways you can enable https redirection in the Application settings as well instead of the htaccess file.

>> Launching the http version it redirects to https

If you are using htaccess for the redirection did you make sure to include all pages?

jediviper

5:12 am on Apr 27, 2021 (gmt 0)

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@JesterMagic
Yes I have activated the "https redirection in the Application settings".

In htaccess I haven't added anything regarding that. It's totally default.

jediviper

5:17 am on Apr 27, 2021 (gmt 0)

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@NickMNS

I tried the SSL Labs test and all servers give a B grade.
Only part that is yellow is the "Protocol Support" bar. The others are Green.
SSL 3No
SSL 2 No

Sandy1802

12:38 pm on May 14, 2021 (gmt 0)



This is a confirmed Bug. Please stop chasing something that you can't (and don't need to!) fix. :-)

Here is confirmation from Google's John Mu...
[twitter.com...]

Then this is a copy of the relevant tweet in that link...

Unfortunately there's a bug there in Search Console. When we we show "Failing / Insufficient HTTPS coverage" in the Page experience report, that can just mean we don't have the full data (instead of saying "not enough data" we incorrectly say "failing"). We're fixing it.

jediviper

5:54 am on May 20, 2021 (gmt 0)

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Just a small update.
That message is gone now and all other info are gone too about mobile info etc.
All I get now is this:
"Not enough data collected for this property"

So ok it looks to be some sort of bug as people have mentioned earlier.