The Chrome mixed content change, does it affect your site's Googlebot rendering? Probably not! If your site has moved to HTTPS and you the gray lock icon in Chrome when viewing pages, you're all set. Woot! No need to be insecure if your website is secure! #happyemoji
If you moved to HTTPS and Chrome doesn't show a gray lock icon, there's mixed content. Mixed content is when a HTTPS page includes HTTP content, like an image or a video loading from HTTP. Upcoming changes may break the page for users & Googlebot. (developers.google.com/web/fundamenta…)
How do you fix mixed content? Make sure all of your site's resources are moved to HTTPS, including all images, videos, stylesheets, scripts, etc. Unsure which URL it is? Use Chrome's Developer Tools to find out more. Update the embedded URLs, sometimes it's a small change.
If you host images or videos that other sites use, make sure to host them on HTTPS, ideally 301 redirecting from HTTP to HTTPS. This enables Chrome to auto-upgrade them when they're embedded, and keeps your great content visible everywhere, including on HTTPS pages.
Do you have a tool or method that you use to find mixed content on your site? Let us know in the replies!
@googlewmc Top two would be @deepcrawl (especially for enterprise crawls) and @screamingfrog. Both provide reporting for mixed content with the ability to export. Awesome. :)
@googlewmc @OhDearApp can send alerts when mixed content appears on a site.
@googlewmc wordpress.org/plugins/really… This Wordpress Plugin fixes mixed content automatically :)
@googlewmc I created github.com/bramus/mixed-c… for exactly this, quite a long time ago ...
@googlewmc I like @screamingfrog. They have an insecure content report that shows what type of content it is (IMG/JS/etc.), which page has it, and the insecure link. Top notch!
@googlewmc What if this was added to Google Search Console's "Coverage" section? Then small businesses wouldn't need a paid tool. (don't worry @screamingfrog, I still love you)
@googlewmc This tool : jitbit.com/sslcheck/ Would be nice from Google to offer one similar ✌️
@googlewmc Have a personal preference for webpagetest.org results in the waterfall although any waterfall as part of a speed test will do. Even better tools already mentioned +1 @screamingfrog
@googlewmc The cheapest tool everybody has: Ctrl + U -> Ctrl + F -> search for "http:"
@googlewmc Well yes, i think 🙈 It's called "Search & Replace in Files" in my IDE and for MySQL there's github.com/interconnectit… – problem solved✌️ Also i HSTS anyway. (Did this today with an Symfony project.)
@googlewmc @screamingfrog and @deepcrawl successful 👍
@googlewmc Content-Security-Policy: upgrade-insecure-requests;
@googlewmc why my web pages show in search results not mobile friendly but that don't show up in webmaster tools? #AskGoogleWebmasters
@googlewmc We use @deepcrawl finds this issue super easy for all our clients.
@googlewmc 1. CTRL+U / CTRL+F 2. SEMrush 3. Upgrade-Insecure-Requests In this order.
@googlewmc What do you mean by mixed content? Is it something related to duplicate content?
@googlewmc Apart from Screaming Frog, when internal linking is missing one website help us a lot is : whynopadlock.com
@googlewmc We use source code find option n chrome