In OpenSiteExplorer, why is HTTPS not an option?

[jsookman]

Our website (https://www.guardly.com) is using secure HTTPS protocols. For whatever reason, in the "Top Pages" section, OpenSiteExplorer only has pages that were online years ago and hasn't updated its index to retrieve index and show links for HTTPS pages. It's pretty frustrating as we are trying to optimize our website and it's really hard to get feedback/data from the service for new pages on our website. Any comments/thoughts would be really helpful.

[FedeEinhorn]

Quoting Megan from SEOMoz:

"Hi Peekabo!

This is Megan from the SEOmoz Help Team.  Unfortunately, OpenSiteExplorer does not support https at this time.  Sorry about that!  This also means that any metrics that are gathered by our Mozscape Index (the index for OSE) are going to be for the http version of the site, which includes Page Authority.  We hope to support https sites in OSE at some point, but it's probably still a ways out.  We'll update this feature request  thread as soon as this feature is available, so you can keep an eye on it:  https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/20770156-open-site-explorer-to-crawl-https

_If you have any other questions about our tools, feel free to send us a message to help@seomoz.org.  _

Cheers!"

[EconostoNL]

It seems Moz completed the required engineering work and the index will build up in the upcoming months. 
https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/20770156-open-site-explorer-to-crawl-https

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Hi RKG-Dev -
When we release this you will be able to retrieve https URLs and associated metrics from the API in the same way you currently retrieve http metrics. We will be crawling https URLs at the same time we crawl http URLs so they will be available on the same dates.
April 26, 2013 01:50 pm
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As I understand it, the HTTPS crawl data will work it's way into the indexes iteratively over time, and this should start in one of the next few indexes. This means that we should have better and better secure site representation over the next few months.  I'll try and keep this thread posted as we see uptake with this.
With regard to the SERP analysis reports, if you are asking about metrics for https pages, this will come along for the ride, as will access via the API, campaigns, and OSE.
May 02, 2013 07:40 am
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