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How To Check If Your SSL HTTPS Website Still Uses HTTP URLs

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How To Check If Your SSL HTTPS Website Still Uses HTTP URLs

After switching to HTTPS it's a good idea to run a scan, a crawl. You want to make sure your internal resources and internal links don't use HTTP anymore.

We'll use thedomain as an example. It recently changed to HTTPS.

In this case you can still reach the domain via HTTP. The site deals with that by adding a canonical link to the HTTPS counterpart.

Configure The Website Scan

Required:

In "Scan website

Paths" enter the "https" domain root to scan - in his example it is

In "Scan website

Crawler options" switch off all options starting with "Fix internal URLs with"... We want all these unchecked when auditing for "http" versus "https" usage in a website.

Optional:

If your website uses javascript for its navigation or similar:

In "Scan website

Crawler options" enable option: "Try search inside Javascript"

If your website uses AJAX to load vital content on page load:
In "Scan website

Crawler engine" switch to "HTTP using WinInet/IE - uses Internet Explorer for setings and AJAX content"

When done, click the "Start scan" button.

Analyze Results After The Scan Has Ended

Switch to the "Analyze website data" view. Then click the "External" tab.

Here you can see all URLs encountered during the website scan that do not belong to the domain

In the quick filter enter:
How To Check If Your SSL HTTPS Website Still Uses HTTP URLs

You can now see all URLs from the "domain that are linked, used or redirected to by any page crawled at ".

Tip: You may also want to check found URLs from other known domains you use to serve content.

To see from where an URL was found, used or redirected to from, click on it. Then on the right side select "Exended data". You can then check the sub tabs "Linked by", "Used by" and "Redirected from".

Depending on how the URL was found, you can see additional information such as on which line a link was found or what the anchor text was.

Include All Data In The Data Columns Area & Export Results

If you do not want to look under "Extended data" for each URL, you can also have the information visible in the data columns at the left side - also ideal when exporting the data for outside review and auditing.

You can achieve this by enabling visibility of the following data columns in menu
How To Check If Your SSL HTTPS Website Still Uses HTTP URLs
"View

Data columns

URL references":

Linked to by list Used by list Redirected to by list
How To Check If Your SSL HTTPS Website Still Uses HTTP URLs

Tip: There are more data columns with additional information.

You can now:

See the new visible columns and data while inside and using the A1 Website Analyzer program. Remember you may need to resize and widen the left side or use the horizontal scrollbar. Export all the data in the data columns area - simply use the menu "File

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