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If its generating converting traffic for you - I would not fix what was not broken.
I've seen many websites sites that were not at all graphically pretty, or even laid out in a way that was very user friendly- they were simple design, with a strong message that generated millions of dollars in revenue. It is pretty amazing.
I would check your server for a https folder.
add a robots.txt file in the root of the https folder:
User-agent: *
Disallow:/
My guess is that the spider is following a link somewhere within your site that links to a https:// url. The spider is than re-indexing the entire site using https://
My 2 cents for what its worth.
Our recent experience with the AddThis buttons/script - is that it slowed our page load time down tremendously, so we removed it. Did not try loading it asynchronously, which may have helped.