After google started using https for signed-in users, Google Analytics started showing “(not proviced)” as the keyword when a user enters a site via https organic search. For example:
Given that the referrer is not available when a user is using HTTPS, how would Gooogle Analytics be able to tell that an HTTPS user came from a search engine?
The targets of Google results are intermediates page that redirect to the desired URL like :
When you use Google with https, results targets the same URL but an empty
qparameter :So there is a http refferer but without any keyword information.