Switched to HTTPS, now have outbound clicks going to WWW
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I recently switched my website to https, doing my best to follow instructions online.
My rankings have been fine, but now in Jetpack Site Stats, in the “clicks” section, I see a very laeg number of clicks going to “www.mysite.com.”
When I click the dropdown of these links, it shows the specific pages being clicked. Mousing over these links, the full hyperlink is shown as “https://www.mysite.com/whatever” as well as “www.mysite.com/otherpage”
Now, for users this isn’t an issue because I have all my 301 redirects set up to redirect to https:// version.
However, I don’t like the idea of my users being redirected all the time if I can help it.
I have already used the plugin Velvet Blues to mass update my links from www to https. When I look around my pages, and mouse over hyperlinks, the plugin did seem to work, all links appear to be https:// now, so I have no idea why my Jetback Site Stats shows click to “www.”
Where could they be coming from?
Thank you so much!
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Hello Meggo4all,
Your question about the use of WWW or non-WWW links in your site is pretty interesting. If you have sanitized your site so that no WWW references are in the code linking to other pages in your site, then the only other logical way you’re getting WWW stats would be from outside your site. People still type in WWW in their browsers (believe it or not), and it’s also possible that people have references to your site bookmarked with the WWW. I work with a hosting company where we normally set the WWW version is simply a CNAME in the DNS. So, my guess is that you either have internal page references using WWW, people are typing in WWW to get to your site, or there are saved links outside of your site that are saved with WWW.
However, you’re doing the right thing. You have decided on your canonical URL -your official domain name – a URL without the WWW. Just make sure that you are consistently using it in all of your links. I referenced this article: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/Choosing_between_www_and_non-www_URLs, when I was reviewing your question. Hope it helps!
Kindest regards,
Arnel C.
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