[BUG] Green Web Check links to Directory even if the provider is not shown there

[fershad]

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Describe the bug
When running a Green Web Check, when a "green" result is returned it includes a link to the hosting provider. This link points to the hosting provider's listing in the Hosting Directory. However, some hosting providers (personal web hosts, individual websites etc) are not shown on in the Directory. When this occurs, the link in the Green Web Check results just opens the Directory page but does not anchor to a particular provider.

For example: https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/green-web-check/?url=https://carbontxt.org

This feels like a poor user experience, and could lead to some confusion for users who click the link to a hosting provider that is not listed on the Directory page.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to: https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/green-web-check/?url=https://carbontxt.org
2. Find the text saying Hosted by: Green Web Foundation
3. Click the link on Green Web Foundation
4. Notice how the Directory opens but does not anchor to any provider listing

Expected behavior
There should be some logic around when to expose a link to a provider in the Green Web Check. That is:

1. If a provider is marked "show on website" -> link to the provider
2. If not, show the provider's name without a link

[timcowlishaw]

Hey @fershad, aha, good spot. There'lll be a bit of work in both the admin portal and the WordPress site for this, I think.

• In the admin portal, we'll need to return a "show on site" flag in the greencheck API lookup response, eg https://admin.thegreenwebfoundation.org/api/v3/greencheck/www.thegreenwebfoundation.org.
• Then, in the wordpress site, we'll use that flag in order to decide whether to show the provider name as a link or not.

I can take a look at the first of these today!

[fershad]

I'm not sure if the show on site flag is something that we want to expose via the public API. Happy to take @mrchrisadams call on that though. I get what the problem is though that you're describing, and that might be the only genuine way to solve it.

[mrchrisadams]

We discussed this synchronously on a call today, and the decision was that we'd update the API payload to add a new property for "listed providers".

This would allow us to differentiate between domains hosted by organisations that offer hosting services and are listed in our directory vs organisations that do not, where it wouldn't make sense to add a link to the directory.

[hanopcan]

Ok, getting to this today. I think the changes got made to the API as discussed in this PR, #669. Gonna aim to implement now.