Serve resources from a consistent URL: facebook vs Google Pagespeed

Question

There is a common problem on using Facebook like button or box, on using pagespeed online sevice by Google I get this : Serve resources from a consistent URL The following resources have identical contents, but are served from different URLs. Serve these resources from a consistent URL to save 1 request(s) and 25.3KiB. - http://static.ak.facebook.com/connect/xd_arbiter.php?version=7 - https://s-static.ak.facebook.com/connect/xd_arbiter.php?version=7

it is obvious that one is for secured ssl connection and other is for unsecured connection is there any possible way to make facebook load just one?

Answer 1

If you want Facebook to load just one, you need to serve the containing page over https.

Here's a demonstration:

Visit:

Facebook site with HTTP

You'll notice it shows Serve resources from a consistent URL for xd_arbiter, now visit:

Facebook site with HTTPS

You'll notice Facebook only loaded the https version as we served the page over https. I'm not sure if this is a Facebook issue. It may be worth filing a bug with Facebook, you'll at least get some useful feedback, (I tried to but couldn't find out where you can file bugs for these things, http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/ seems inappropriate)

Edit: Updating broken links, Facebook seems to have fixed the original issue and these links no longer show the problem that they used to highlight.