I am trying to identify sources of unattributable, "direct" traffic to my website. One source is http links from http websites - e.g. Google search results - because the referrer is stripped when going from http to http. With that in mind, I went to Google Search Console to make sure http versions of my pages are not being indexed and I was surprised to see that the non-http version of the homepage receives an equal number of impressions and significantly more clicks than the http version, according to Google Search Console.
This website has never been http only and I'm fairly certain http has always been redirected to http.
If I click the magnifying glass next to the http version to "inspect" the page, it says it is not indexed and the http version is the canonical version.
If I do a Google search for site:mysite.com inurl:http
or site:mysite.com -inurl:http
I get no results.
Why is the http version of my homepage receiving more Google search traffic than the http version?
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- is the only non-http link in the report of linked pages