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Sam Soltano — 2025-05-09T00:00:00Z

38.9% of all website redirect to their www subdomain. That's roughly the same as 5 years ago. 63.1% of the top 1000 sites do so.

Sam Soltano — 2024-07-22T00:00:00Z

50.3% of web servers located in Slovakia support IPv6, compared to 10.6% for USA and 2.4% for Japan.

Sam Soltano — 2023-07-10T00:00:00Z

Usage of HTTP/2 is declining sharply, while usage of HTTP/3 is rising slowly.

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 — 2021-01-08T00:00:00Z

HTTP/2 is now used by 50% of all websites, up from 42.6% one year ago.

Sam Soltano — 2020-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

Sam Soltano — 2020-06-04T00:00:00Z

HTTP/3 is now supported by 6% of all websites, up from 2% six months 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 — 2019-12-02T00:00:00Z

HTTP/3 is used by 2% of all websites, and by 7% of the top 1000 sites.