July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
354 pages
8h 51m
English
According to the August 2017 Qualys survey (see https://www.ssllabs.com/ssl-pulse/), 60.2% of the sites they analyzed had proper SSL configuration. It is important to note that their survey is limited to 138, 672 of the most popular websites, a small sampling of the hundreds of millions of sites currently available online.
The HTTP Archive reports 64% of the top 500,000 websites use HTTPS (https://httparchive.org/reports/state-of-the-web#pctHttps) shown in the graph. The good news is both surveys show a positive trend toward more sites using SSL:

Unlike the past, every website should now use HTTPS instead of plain text HTTP. ...
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