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You can set up your apache/nginx or whatever webserver to redirect http requests to https. That way you can still link to your website with an http:// URL.

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Appreciated, but this is a hacky solution. If you use the graph explorer, both the http and https addresses have different counts. It's very frustrating - shouldn't be that way.

Add your site to the HSTS Preload List, then it'll be very unlikely to have any HTTP hits.

Didn't realise that existed. Very useful thanks!

But again, it's not exactly up there for John Everyman - and it doesn't sort Facebook having different share counts for the https and http domain.

True. And you have to be extra careful with HSTS Preloading; if one of your subdomains breaks because of HTTPS, it'll be a pain to get your domain taken off the list.

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