Wikipedia:Google https links#Confirmed stats.grok.se pageviews omit https requests

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The following lists the links in Google Search which have used the "https:" prefix (rather than "http:") to connect to Wikipedia pages by secure-server, SSL Internet protocol.

Confirmed stats.grok.se pageviews omit https requests

As feared, due to some major articles showing 75% drop in pageviews with Google https-protocol, recent evidence (9 May 2013) has confirmed the stats.grok.se omits the https-protocol pageviews. In tests run during 12 hours on 9 May 2013, over 60 https-prefix pageviews of a Space Shuttle mission-patch image file were ignored, while "http:" views were counted for both images:

::* http://stats-classic.grok.se/en/201305/File:Sts-99-patch.png - (logged 5 not ~65 https-protocol views)

::* http://stats-classic.grok.se/en/201305/File:Sts-98-patch.png - (logged 70 http pageviews)

Both mission-patch images ("http" for STS-98 and "https" for STS-99) were viewed within minutes of each other, repeatedly during 65 intervals, in the day-long testing of pageviews. The stats.grok.se website has counted only the "http" pageviews and omitted all https-protocol pageviews. A related pageviews test, on 10 May 2013, confirmed article pageviews with https-protocol requests are also omitted, just as for image-description pages. Based on prior pageviews of major articles (see list above: #Pages which have used Google https links), it is suspected that other pageview tools also omit the https-protocol page requests in the counts.

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