response.not-https
The final URL is served over plain http.
What to change
Serve the site over https and redirect http to https. HTTPS is a (light) ranking signal and required for many browser features.
A finding of this rule on a page carries the exact edits for that page: the markup it quotes, and what to write instead.
When it runs
Runs on every SEO audit: of a page, a crawl, a build directory or HTML. A warning is a problem that costs a page ranking, clicks or citations. Each finding takes 5 points off the page's score.
The severity here is the rule's usual one: a finding can be raised or lowered when the page gives a reason.
Run it, or skip it
Check a page for this rule alone, after a fix for instance:
npx @rivi-software/agentic-seo-check audit https://example.com --rule response.not-https
Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_audit_page:
{
"url": "https://example.com",
"rules": [
"response.not-https"
]
}
To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable response.not-https on the command, or disableRules: ["response.not-https"] to a tool.
More in The HTTP response
All 7 rules- Error
response.error-statusThe URL returned a 4xx or 5xx status code. - Info
response.redirectedThe requested URL redirected to another URL. - Warning
response.redirect-chainThe URL goes through two or more redirects before reaching the final page. - Warning
response.slowThe HTML response took longer than the configured threshold (default 2000 ms). - Warning
response.not-htmlThe response Content-Type is not HTML. - Info
response.truncatedThe page is larger than the audit reads (5 MB; 2 MB on the hosted server), so only its first part was audited.