===== Impact of enabling SSL on google page indexing ===== ==== Summary ==== On 2022-08-16, I enabled SSL on this website. This resulted in google indexing more pages. Below is a chart and data from google search console. {{:impact_of_enabling_ssl_on_20220816.png?direct|}} % cat Chart.csv | csvsql -I --query 'select * from stdin where Date >= "2022-08-13"' Date,Affected pages 2022-08-13,37 2022-08-14,37 2022-08-15,37 2022-08-16,59 2022-08-17,59 2022-08-18,59 2022-08-19,59 2022-08-20,76 2022-08-21,76 2022-08-22,76 2022-08-23,191 2022-08-24,191 2022-08-25,191 2022-08-26,191 2022-08-27,191 2022-08-28,191 2022-08-29,191 ==== Additional notes ==== * https://search.google.com/search-console - Google search console URL * The SSL certificate is from letsencrypt. * From an end user point of view, adding an SSL certificate just means that the site has migrated from http to https (http://kamaraju.xyz/dk -> https://kamaraju.xyz/dk etc.,) ==== tags ==== http vs https