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The following lists the links in Google Search which have used the "https:" prefix (rather than "http:") to connect to Wikipedia pages by secure-server, SSL Internet protocol.

Pages which have used Google https links[edit]

The following Wikipedia pages have been listed in Google with "https:" links:

1080s in art -
13th century in literature -
1948 Palestinian exodus -
20th century in literature -
2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament -
40th Flight Test Squadron -
41st Electronic Combat Squadron -
550 Music -
A Matter of Minutes -
Abstract art -
Accounts of Chemical Research -
Acrylic paint -
Action (physics) -
Acute (medicine) -
ADC Airlines Flight 86 -
Addiction Biology -
African art -
African literature -
Alan Turing - 21 April 2013, pageviews drop 65%
Algebraic Geometry (book) -
Algebraic geometry and analytic geometry -
Allotropes of oxygen -
Alps Electric -
Alternating current -
Alum -
American Journal of Human Biology -
Amazon Kindle -
American Academy of Art -
American football -
Analog verification -
Ancient Greek art -
Andean Geology -
Araucaria bidwillii - 10 April 2013, pageviews drop 60%
Arkansas Razorbacks football -
Armenian literature -
Art Clokey -
Art criticism -
Art Institute of Chicago -
Art Nouveau -
Art school -
Artificial cranial deformation -
Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture -
ASCII art -
Astronomy & Geophysics -
Astronomische Nachrichten -
Astroparticle physics -
Astrophotography -
Astrophysical maser -
Asymptote -
Athletics at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw -
Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw -
Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw -
Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw -
Atom probe -
Atomic Age (comics) -
Atomic Bitchwax I -
Atomic City (song) -
Atomic Energy Education Society -
Atomic fountain -
Atomic Weapons Establishment -
Ballistic missile submarine -
Baroque dance -
Basketball -
Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics -
Basketball positions -
Battery electric vehicle -
Beaux-Arts architecture -
Belarusian literature -
Bertelsmann Music Group -
Billy Joel -
Biogeochemical cycle -
Biologist -
Biology Letters -
Blade geometry -
Art Blakey -
Body painting -
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress -
Charles Bolden -
Book:Mathematics -
Brachytherapy -
Daniel Brandenstein -
Bridge (sculpture) -
British literature -
Canadarm (NASA) -
Cancer (disambiguation) -
Cancer - 29 March 2013, pageviews drop 66%
Cancer stem cell -
Cancer survivor - 22 April 2013, pageviews drop 66%
Cancer vaccine - 26 March 2013, pageviews drop 57%
Cancer of unknown primary origin -
Carbon dioxide -
Carcinogenesis -
Carry On (film series) -
Catawba Nuclear Station -
Catenary - 6 May 2013, pageviews drop 60%
Cell biology -
cGh physics -
Chemical bond -
Chemical law -
Chemical modification -
Chemical patent -
Chemical Society -
Chicago Bears -
Cholangiocarcinoma -
Christian art -
Chronobiology -
Chugoku Electric Power Company -
Circle - 14 April 2013, pageviews drop 79%
Circle dance -
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre -
Co-option (biology) -
Cold vapour atomic fluorescence spectroscopy -
Colombian literature -
Color Field -
Concept art -
Cone -
Configuration (geometry) -
Congruence (geometry) -
Constructive solid geometry -
Contact (film) -
Coulomb blockade -
Francis Crick -
Cubical atom -
The Dance -
Dance and health -
Dance hall -
Dance: UK -
Dance/Electronic Albums -
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA -
Geoffrey Dawson -
Defective pixel -
Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football -
Delta Air Lines Flight 191 -
Depression (mood) - 21 April 2013, pageviews drop 66%
Derivative (chemistry) -
Determinism -
Developmental biology -
Diatomic molecule -
Dichloromethane -
Diffusion transistor -
Discrete mathematics -
Dispersion (geology) -
Division I (NCAA) -
Double Jeopardy (film) -
Doubly fed electric machine -
Dow Chemical Company -
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog -
Dub (music) -
Dynamic nuclear polarisation -
E-commerce payment system -
E-text -
Jewell James Ebers -
Ecology -
Ecotage -
Edgewood Chemical Biological Center -
Edwards Air Force Base -
The Electric Boogaloo Song -
Electric Eels (band) -
Electric heating -
Electric Image Animation System -
Electric light -
Electrical conductor -
Electrical phenomena -
Electronic article -
Electronic component -
Electronic game -
Electronic paper -
Electronic pollbook -
Electronic visual display -
Electronic Waste Recycling Act -
Elementary event -
Email -
English literature -
Epoch (astronomy) -
Equatorium -
Erlangen program -
European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition -
Eurovision Dance Contest -
Evolutionary developmental biology -
Excited state -
Expedition 2 -
Explorer 49 -
Exponentiation -
Extragalactic astronomy -
Facies -
Fantasy literature -
Far-infrared astronomy -
Andrew J. Feustel -
Field (physics) -
Field-effect transistor -
Film criticism -
Film noir - 23/24 April 2013, pageviews drop 61%
Film theory -
Filmmaking - 5 April 2013, pageviews drop 57%
Flat (music) -
Flight (military unit) -
Flow (mathematics) -
Fluorescent lamp -
Foil (literature) -
Folk art -
Football (ball) -
Football in the Netherlands -
Football in the United Kingdom -
Formalism (art) -
Formation (association football) -
The Fourth Estate (painting) -
Foundations of Physics -
France national basketball team -
Free-fall atomic model -
Fundamental interaction -
Fusion power -
General Electric LM2500 -
General Motors EV1 -
Genre art -
Geology - 10 April 2013, pageviews drop 64%
Geology of Alabama -
Geology of Colombia -
Geology of Oklahoma -
Geology of West Virginia -
Geometry -
Geometry & Topology -
Geosynchronous orbit -
Gerard Kuiper -
German literature -
Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 -
Gone with the Wind (film) - late March 2013, pageviews drop 62%
Gregorian chant -
Gromov Flight Research Institute -
Haka -
Edward E. Hammer -
MC Hammer -
Hanford Site -
Hard-edge painting -
Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology -
Head (geology) -
Thomas Little Heath -
Hemicube (geometry) -
Terence T. Henricks -
Hexagon -
High-electron-mobility transistor -
History of art -
Homonym (biology) -
Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese -
Hook (hand tool) -
Hook (music) -
Hora (dance) -
Hot-carrier injection -
Humorism -
Hydrogen atom -
Hydron (chemistry) -
Hyperbola - 27 April 2013, pageviews drop 66%
Ignition system -
Imperial College School of Medicine -
In vitro -
Index of evolutionary biology articles -
Indian literature -
Indianapolis Colts -
Infrared astronomy -
Inscribed figure -
Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics -
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge -
Institute of Physics -
Integral -
International Journal of Cancer -
International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine -
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) -
International Year of Astronomy -
Interval (mathematics) -
iPod - 24-27 April 2013, pageviews drop 58%
Irish Cancer Society -
iTunes -
Japanese art -
Jarabe Tapatío -
JAT Flight 367 -
JetBlue flight attendant incident -
Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature -
Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry -
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter -
Journal of Theoretical Biology -
Kambojas in Indian literature -
Kampo -
Karst -
KLM -
Laboratory of Molecular Biology -
Lady Gaga - 13/14 April 2013, pageviews drop 64%
Lake Victoria -
Lambert conformal conic projection -
Laser-heated pedestal growth -
Latin American music -
Latin literature -
Legends Football League -
Liberal arts education -
Library (biology) -
Lie sphere geometry -
Linear system of divisors -
List of astronomical catalogues -
List of best-selling books - late March 2013, pageviews drop 75%
List of cancelled nuclear plants in the United States -
List of elements -
List of important publications in physics -
List of mathematics competitions -
List of Space Shuttle orbiters -
List of states with nuclear weapons -
Literature -
Liturgical dance -
Locality (astronomy) -
Logic family -
Logic gate -
Lolita - 24-28 April 2013, pageviews drop 72%
Lorentz transformation -
Macedonian literature -
Maiden flight -
Mannes College The New School for Music -
Mantle (geology) -
Marine biology -
Richard Mastracchio -
Mathematics education in the United States -
Matrix (mathematics) -
Max Planck Institute for Physics -
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy -
Maxwell's equations -
K. Megan McArthur -
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle -
Medieval Welsh literature -
Metalorganic vapour phase epitaxy -
Michael Duff (physicist) -
Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry -
Michigan State Spartans football -
Middle Persian literature -
Yao Ming (basketball) -
Mitsubishi Electric -
Mob film -
Monsanto -
MOS composite static induction thyristor -
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology -
Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture -
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -
Music and mathematics -
Music genre -
Music Hall (Cincinnati) -
Music of Hawaii -
Music of Ireland -
Music of Portugal -
Music of Slovenia -
Music sequencer -
Musical chairs -
Musical theatre -
Nanocircuitry -
Nanomedicine -
National Centre for Physics -
National Geology and Mining Service -
National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art -
NCAA Basketball series -
NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship -
Neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon -
Paolo A. Nespoli -
New Age music -
New York Academy of Medicine -
Niobium -
Emmy Noether -
Northern Virginia trolleys -
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football -
Nuclear fusion -
Nuclear pore -
Nuclear program of Iran -
Nuclear Regulatory Commission -
Nuclear warfare -
Nur (biology) -
Orbit -
Organ transplantation -
Organic compound -
Ornament (music) -
Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant -
Osteopathic manipulative medicine -
Outline of astronomy -
Outline of painting -
Outline of medicine -
Oxy-fuel welding and cutting -
Oxygen -
p–n junction -
Paleobiology -
Pan Am Flight 103 -
Parabola - late March 2013, pageviews drop 75%
Parkinson's law of triviality -
Particle physics -
Patronage in astronomy -
Peak District -
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica -
Photodiode -
Photon -
Physics in medieval Islam -
Plasma (physics) -
Plücker formula -
Poncelet's closure theorem -
Pope -
Predicate (mathematical logic) -
Preventive medicine -
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory -
Projective differential geometry -
Postcolonial literature -
Power wrench -
Prehistoric music -
Prime Minister of Australia - 2013?, no pageviews drop yet
Prostate cancer screening -
Psychosomatic medicine -
Quasi-empiricism in mathematics -
Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station -
Ray of Light (sculpture) -
RDS-1 -
Reactivity (chemistry) -
Real algebraic geometry -
Rebound (basketball) -
Red Electric -
Redshift -
Rest (music) -
Riemann–Roch theorem -
Ring (mathematics) -
Rock of Gibraltar -
Rod cell -
Auguste Rodin -
Romance (heroic literature) -
Romantic music -
Rosatom -
Rosemarkie sculpture fragments -
Royal Society of Literature -
Rugby union -
Samuel Franklin Cody -
San Francisco 49ers -
San Francisco Tape Music Center -
Save Outdoor Sculpture! -
Scenic painting -
Werner Schmidt-Hammer -
Screen painting -
Schizophrenia - 21 April 2013, pageviews drop 66% to 4,622/day
Schrödinger equation -
Scientific method -
Section of Painting and Sculpture -
Margaret Rhea Seddon -
Senegalese literature -
Serial (literature) -
Shakira -
Similarity (geometry) -
Sistine Chapel ceiling -
Skin Cancer Foundation -
S.L. Benfica -
Small Astronomy Satellite 2 -
Sonata form -
Sonic screwdriver -
Spam (electronic) -
Specialty (medicine) -
Spectral line -
Spectroscopy -
The Sphere -
Spindle (sculpture) -
Spray painting -
Squamous-cell carcinoma -
Star -
Starter (engine) -
Karl Georg Christian von Staudt -
Steklov Institute of Mathematics -
Nicolas Steno -
Step dance -
Daniel Chapman Stillson -
Strong interaction -
STS-8 -
STS-26 -
STS-28 -
STS-41-D -
STS-69 -
STS-82 -
STS-121 -
Sturt (biology) -
Subaru Telescope -
Sudanese literature -
Support (mathematics) -
Surface-barrier transistor -
Systems Biology Graphical Notation -
Gordon Kidd Teal -
Tertiary -
Nikola Tesla - 21-24 April 2013, pageviews drop 72%
Texas literature -
Texas Longhorns football -
Thanksgiving Classic -
The New England Journal of Medicine -
The Electronic Intifada -
Theoretical physics -
Thin film -
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. -
Toxicity -
Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid -
Transit (astronomy) -
Turbo-electric transmission -
Two-port network -
Mark Twain - 29 April 2013, pageviews drop 60%
Underwater football -
Ulugh Beg -
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority -
United States Football League -
United States National Library of Medicine -
United States women's national basketball team -
University of Aberdeen School of Medicine -
University of Missouri School of Medicine -
Uruguayan literature -
USC Thornton School of Music -
USS Enterprise (CVN-65) -
Venice Film Festival -
Vesicle (biology and chemistry) -
Vicki Barr Flight Stewardess Series -
Visualized experimental biology -
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog -
War hammer -
Warner Bros. -
Water -
Welded sculpture -
West Coast Flight 720 -
Westinghouse Electric (1886) -
WKU Hilltoppers basketball -
WMS Industries -
Women's National Basketball Association -
Word painting -
World music -
Wrench -
Zilog Z80 -

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Results of Google https links[edit]

As discussed about other pages since early April 2013, those articles (such as "Depression (mood)") have also changed in Google to have secure-server, https-prefix links, rather than typical "http:" prefix, as happened to several other articles in March 2013 ("Parabola" or "List of best-selling books" etc.). Although developers think the https-protocol requests have been properly logged, for pageview counts, some people think the pageview counts are still not correct (as undercounting the https transactions in those log files), while other people think that https security certificate alerts, in some browsers (such as MSIE not Firefox), have deterred people from viewing those articles, once their browsers ask about the secure-server access, and hence think the 66%-lower pageviews indicate actual reduction in readers viewing those pages. The reduced pageviews are shown by both stats.grok.se and the German Wiki-tech displays of pageview counts (such as for one-month option "&Zeitraum=1M").

Confirmed stats.grok.se pageviews omit https requests[edit]

As feared, due to some major articles showing 75% drop in pageviews with Google https-protocol, recent evidence (9 May 2013) has confirmed the stats.grok.se omits the https-protocol pageviews. In tests run during 12 hours on 9 May 2013, over 60 https-prefix pageviews of a Space Shuttle mission-patch image file were ignored, while "http:" views were counted for both images:

http://stats-classic.grok.se/en/201305/File:Sts-99-patch.png - (logged 5 not ~65 https-protocol views)
http://stats-classic.grok.se/en/201305/File:Sts-98-patch.png - (logged 70 http pageviews)

Both mission-patch images ("http" for STS-98 and "https" for STS-99) were viewed within minutes of each other, repeatedly during 65 intervals, in the day-long testing of pageviews. The stats.grok.se website has counted only the "http" pageviews and omitted all https-protocol pageviews. A related pageviews test, on 10 May 2013, confirmed article pageviews with https-protocol requests are also omitted, just as for image-description pages. Based on prior pageviews of major articles (see list above: #Pages which have used Google https links), it is suspected that other pageview tools also omit the https-protocol page requests in the counts.

Pages which have used Google https links[edit]

Results of Google https links[edit]

Confirmed stats.grok.se pageviews omit https requests[edit]

See also[edit]