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Sam Soltano — 2022-10-19T00:00:00Z

80% of all websites now use https, up from 22.5% five years ago.

Sam Soltano — 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z

91% of the top 1000 sites are using https by default. In other words: 9% of the top 1000 sites are still not using https by default.

Sam Soltano — 2020-10-12T00:00:00Z

66% of all websites now redirect to https, up from 22.5% three years ago.

Sam Soltano — 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z

60% of all websites and 91.2% of the top 1000 sites now redirect to https.

Sam Soltano — 2019-11-27T00:00:00Z

83.5% of Dutch sites redirect to https, but only 17.8% of South Korean sites.

Matthias Gelbmann — 2019-04-08T00:00:00Z

We have reached a tipping point where encrypted transmission of web pages becomes more common than unencrypted transmission.

Sam Soltano — 2018-05-30T00:00:00Z

More than one third of all websites and almost three quarter of the top 1000 sites redirect to https.

Sam Soltano — 2018-02-01T00:00:00Z

Every day 3,270 of the top 10 million websites switch to https.

Sam Soltano — 2018-01-11T00:00:00Z

27.1% of all websites and 68.4% of the top 1000 sites redirect to https.

Sam Soltano — 2017-11-15T00:00:00Z

25% of websites redirect to https, up from 20% only 3 months ago.