Post by shikharani00189 on Oct 31, 2024 1:34:45 GMT -5
Security is one of the most important concerns in recent years. At the forefront, it is HTTPS and SSL certificates that dominate the market, so much so that Google has made it a (tiny) ranking criterion and many tools have made it their hobby horse. For example, WordPress blocks access to some of its APIs if your sites are not in HTTPS, just as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome mark sites as "not secure" at the slightest opportunity.
In itself, HTTPS does not revolutionize security in any way , it must off page seo service be admitted. Its objective is to protect data transfers (for example, between an online form and a database, etc.), but many sites have no data transfer in the literal sense, so why make HTTPS almost mandatory in this case? The debate is open but whatever happens, websites must go through this or risk being seen as the bad guys on duty. Get in line... :-(
Murat Yatagan, an ex-Google from the Search Quality team, shared on Twitter a recent Google article about the progress made by HTTPS in Google Chrome (this trend seems to be generalized, it's just that the calculations were done by Google's browser...). Let's recall that for a few months, Google Chrome has been displaying next to web addresses the fact that a site is not secure if it is not in HTTPS , or worse, if all the internal resources of a page are not in HTTPS (links to internal images, Javascript, CSS...). Firefox is also moving in the same direction, even going so far as to display security warnings in certain cases of this kind...
Labeled "Not secure" in red for Google Chrome and unsecured HTTP connections.
To date, Google Chrome displays the "not secure" label in three specific cases (before others come to complete the list...):
automatic tagging for pages that collect sensitive data (credit card number, passwords, etc.) without being in HTTPS;
display of "not secure" when users have forms to fill out on HTTP pages (whatever the importance of the form a priori...);
marking if the HTTP site is visited in private browsing mode.
Knowing this, more and more anti-HTTP markings are being developed in Google Chrome, but the firm boasts of having seen a clear increase in HTTPS sites. Indeed, over the past year, more than 37% more sites have migrated to the HTTPS protocol . This brings the number of secure sites to 71% of sites present on Chrome in total, not bad at all. Add to this that on Android, an identical observation was made since 64% of traffic coming from Chrome is in HTTPS (increase of 42% over the past year), and 75% of sites are protected according to Chrome OS and Mac. In other words, on average only a third of sites remain in HTTP on Chrome. Recently, I also shared similar results for Mozilla Firefox , so the trend is indeed clear and without a hitch...
Evolution of HTTPS in Google Chrome in 2017
HTTPS is therefore on the right track, and Google even confirms that this is global (SSL certificates have experienced a boom in Japan and China in particular). The firm has decided to continue its sponsorship for the Let's Encrypt project which offers free SSL certificates. So we can only hope that everything remains for the best in the future in terms of security, even if, I remind you, HTTPS does not change much in a large majority of cases...