Why am I not seeing a padlock on my site?

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When you visit your site, if you have SSL toggled on, you should see a padlock next to the URL:

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If you don’t and see this instead:

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It means you have mixed content on your site, you have most of the assets loading via SSL, but you’ll have some not loading via SSL.

A great resource for determining why this is happening is:

https://www.whynopadlock.com/

Sometimes WhyNoPadlock doesn’t pick up on the error if it is a slow loading asset. In that case you can also use Google Console:

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You would see something like the below message:

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The solution to this issue is to change links the http to https.