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> And hey, bonus: more complete referrer information in Google Analytics It's interesting, I did switch to HTTPS for all my sites but Google Search still did n
by AhtiK 13y ago
> And hey, bonus: more complete referrer information in Google Analytics
It's interesting, I did switch to HTTPS for all my sites but Google Search still did not reveal search keywords to Google Analytics from users logged in at Google. If that's what was referred as "referrer information".
Did anyone get lucky with getting 100% of google search keywords after switching to SSL?
- slig 13y agoThey don't provide that anymore, even if you're on HTTPS. I had this same question on a yesterday's thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6438992 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6438992
- bigiain 13y agoWhat he meant was that Google Analytics will correctly identify visitors coming from a link on a SSL secured site (for example https://news.ycombinator.com https://news.ycombinator.com ) if your set is SSL secured as well - all browsers strip the referrer header if they're going from an https page to an http one. Google search queries/keywords are a different issue - Google is intentionally making it impossible to see most of those (presumably, they've got a plan about how to sell that information to marketers using Adwords…)
- AhtiK 13y agoMany thanks for clearing that up! I had no idea browsers strip referrer headers with https->http navigation.