Googlebot landing page redirect

mlface
(@mlface)

5 years, 11 months ago

Thank you for the plugin! Unfortunately I’m having one issue that I was hoping you could address.

When I run a Google PageSpeed Insights test on my domain (with the SCCSS plugin enabled), in the results (under the “Avoid landing page redirects” section) Google is showing a redirect chain from https://site.com/?sccss=1&ver=4.9.5 -> http://site.com/ -> https://site.com/

There appears to be a 301 redirect pointing from https://site.com/?sccss=1&ver=4.9.5 to the insecure (HTTP) protocol, which is then 301 redirected to the secure (HTTPS) version.

I’m assuming it’s set to redirect to the HTTP version of the homepage by default, even for sites which use HTTPS. Do you have a suggestion on how to resolve this?

Thank you!

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Thread Starter mlface
(@mlface)

5 years, 11 months ago

I hate to bump my own post, but I’ve seen other posts about this issue with no resolution and I would love to have someone address it. Since Googlebot (through the Pagespeed Insights test) apparently interprets the https://site.com/?sccss=1&ver=4.9.5 URL as a redirect chain (first redirecting to http://site.com, then to https://site.com, I’m just wondering… is there no way to avoid this? Is there any other way to call the CSS?

The issue is that Google automatically categorizes this as a landing page redirect; something that of course no one wants Google to misinterpret and/or affect the page’s rankings.

Thread Starter mlface
(@mlface)

5 years, 8 months ago

@johnregan3 – Is this support forum dead? It’s been over three months without any type of response. Is there a better place to ask support questions?

This is an issue that has been brought up multiple times on this forum as well as many other sites (e.g., https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/88715/custom-css-in-wordpress-is-not-served-over-https-breaking-woocommerce-secure-che), yet I still cannot find an answer.

The plugin seems to not recognize that the site runs on HTTPS, and is redirecting googlebot from https://site.com/?sccss=1&ver=4.9.5 to http://site.com/?sccss=1&ver=4.9.5.

The only recommendations I’ve found so far are to use a different plugin, but this bug seems like such a minor fix. If I’m mistaken about that, with all due respect, I (and many others) would at least appreciate some kind of response.

Thank you.

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