'HTTPS is easier and cheaper than ever before, and it enables both the best performance the web offers and powerful new features that are too sensitive for HTTP,' wrote Emily Schechter, a Chrome security product manager. Let's Encrypt meanwhile has been issuing as many as one million certificates per day this year and currently reports that 63 percent of pages loaded by Firefox use HTTPS. dev to ensure that all sites under these TLDs follow the HSTS policy after acquiring a digital certificate. This year, Google began operating its own Root Certificate Authorities to issue SSL certificates for its products and has recently launched a managed SSL service for App Engine customers.Īnd the company has started enabling enforced or 'Strict' HTTPS (HSTS) for its top-level domains (TLDs) such as. Google has created numerous incentives and penalties to encourage and prod developers into enabling HTTPS, from making it a positive ranking signal in search to changing Chrome's security warnings for HTTP pages and sponsoring the Let's Encrypt certificate authority, which provides free digital certificates.Ĭhrome now has over a billion users and Google mandates HTTPS to use newer browser features that allow websites to access hardware, such as a computer's camera or microphone. HTTPS page loads in Japan are also rising, but only account for 55 percent of all pages, up from 31 percent a year ago.

It reports slightly lower levels in other major markets, such as Brazil, Germany, France, and Russia, but all are trending upwards in a similar fashion.

The web is getting more secure, according to Google. Google also notes that 71 of the 100 most popular sites have now enabled HTTPS by default, up from 37 a year ago.Īccording to Google's HTTPS encryption transparency report, 73 percent of pages loaded in the US using HTTPS in Chrome on Windows, up from 59 percent a year ago. HTTPS-protected traffic on Chrome for Mac and ChromeOS is 75 percent, up from 60 percent and 67 percent respectively a year ago. HTTPS traffic on Android is now 64 percent compared with 42 percent a year ago. The percentage of HTTPS page loads on Chrome is growing on all platforms.

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