Title: Forcing HTTP
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Forcing HTTP

 *  [matt40k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt40k/)
 * (@matt40k)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forcing-http/)
 * You are currently forcing HTTP on HTTPS only sites which is resulting in:
 * **PageSpeed:**
    Description: Avoid landing page redirects
 * Type:
    Server
 * Priority:
    High
 * As well as on YSlow.
 * Removing the forcing of HTTPS is simple:
    [https://github.com/matt40k/gtmetrix/commit/53cf7e19270b299c477175f15dae457be0831a65#diff-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e](https://github.com/matt40k/gtmetrix/commit/53cf7e19270b299c477175f15dae457be0831a65#diff-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e)
 * And promotes Google recommendation of SSL first:
    [http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal_6.html](http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal_6.html)
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## Tags

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forcing-http/)
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