## **📋 What This Article Covers**

If your Site Audit is flagging "HTTP doesn't redirect to HTTPS" or "Protocol/WWW variants don't redirect to the same place" as issues — but your redirects are actually working correctly — you may be encountering a known false positive. This article explains what this means, how to verify your redirects, and what information to have ready when contacting our team.

## **🔬 Why This Happens**

In some cases, the Search Atlas Site Audit crawler may flag HTTPS or WWW redirect issues even when your redirects are correctly configured. This is a known false positive that our engineering team is aware of and actively investigating. The crawler may not always detect or fully interpret certain redirect setups, which can result in an inaccurate flag in your audit report.

## **✅ How to Verify Your Redirects Are Working**

Before reporting the false positive, confirm your redirects are functioning correctly:

1. **Test in your browser:** Type your HTTP URL (for example, **http://yoursite.com**) into the address bar and press Enter. If it automatically changes to HTTPS, your redirect is working.
2. **Check all variants:** Test all four versions of your domain — HTTP, HTTPS, WWW, and non-WWW. They should all resolve to a single canonical URL.
3. **Use a redirect checker:** Free tools like Redirect Checker or HTTPStatus.io can confirm your redirect chains and status codes.
4. **Verify in Google Search Console:** Check that Google has indexed the HTTPS version as the canonical URL.

## **🛠️ What to Do If You Confirm a False Positive**

If you have verified that your redirects are working correctly but the Site Audit is still flagging them as issues, this is a known false positive that our team is investigating. To help us resolve this more efficiently, please gather the following information before reaching out:

- **Project name:** The name of the project in Search Atlas where the false positive appears.
- **Exact flagged issue text:** The specific redirect issue message shown in your Site Audit report.
- **Domain URL(s) affected:** The URLs or domain variants that are being incorrectly flagged.
- **Proof redirects work:** A screenshot or note confirming that your redirects resolve correctly when tested in a browser or third-party redirect checker.

Our engineering team is actively working on improving the crawler's ability to accurately detect redirect configurations so that these false positives are reduced in the future. If you need further assistance, open the chat widget in the bottom-right corner of the platform and type **human teammate** to be connected with a member of our team.