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Support for Signed Exchanges (SGX) - webpkgcache.com #20919

Open jphorn opened 1 year ago

jphorn commented 1 year ago

Would love to see support for recognising Google's Signed Exchanges URLs in the various overviews, but especially the Acquisition reports.

Summary

From Google: Get started with signed exchanges on Google Search

Signed exchanges (SXG) allow Google Search to prefetch your content while preserving the user’s privacy. In practice, this means that both AMP and non-AMP results shown on Google Search may prefetch a few key resources (such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS, images, or fonts) in a privacy-preserving manner, if the associated website supports SXG.

When the user ultimately clicks the result, the web page starts rendering much sooner since key resources are already available, leading to a better user experience. This could mean a lower Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) score for your content. While Google Search doesn't consider use of SXG as a direct factor in ranking, the lower LCP may affect ranking because page experience is a ranking factor.

I believe these visits should be recognised and reported as coming from channel "Search Engines" instead of "Websites" where they are currently lumped in to. Please see my screenshot.

CleanShot 2023-06-22 at 15 14 35@2x

Enabling this for your website is fairly easy for websites hosted/powered by Cloudflare (reference), so in theory a lot of websites could benefit from better insight in their acquisition traffic.

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michalkleiner commented 1 year ago

Hi @jphorn, thank you for the suggestion! It should be already possible to manage the list of search engines using Stefan's plugin https://plugins.matomo.org/ReferrersManager. Do you want to give that a go and let us know if it meets your needs?

michalkleiner commented 1 year ago

I'll also move this to the PO team for prioritisation on the decision whether it should become part of the core list or not.

jphorn commented 1 year ago

Hi @jphorn, thank you for the suggestion! It should be already possible to manage the list of search engines using Stefan's plugin https://plugins.matomo.org/ReferrersManager. Do you want to give that a go and let us know if it meets your needs?

Yes. I was planning to do so, but this is more a suggestion for core. So thank you for passing it on.

sgiehl commented 1 year ago

@jphorn The list Matomo is using is managed in this repo: https://github.com/matomo-org/searchengine-and-social-list Feel free to create a PR to directly add that to the list of Google's domains.